I go to the cinema a lot, at least once and week, and sometimes twice a week when the releases are coming thick and fast. I’ll watch and enjoy a range of films, from gritty thrillers to foreign cinema to ‘for the kids’ animation. During the last 9 months 3D films have been cropping up [...]
Posts tagged with ‘Film & Photography’
3D Films Are Not The Future!
August 3rd, 2009 in Film & Photography3 recommended podcasts for film fans
August 8th, 2008 in Film & Photographyi only subscribed to my first podcast around 6 months ago, but i very quickly found the variety and quality of audio content out there rather appealing. so i thought i would share a list of my favourites with you, starting with film podcasts. the film program is bbc four’s half hour show presented by [...]
a dark knight at the local
July 25th, 2008 in Film & Photographyi went to see ‘the dark knight’ yesterday evening, a special advance preview at my local cinema – a day before the official release tonight. the film impressed me, it was as good as the first – if not better, and christopher nolan has again raised the bar for superhero films. but what impressed me [...]
happy feet
April 15th, 2007 in Film & Photographyi’m having a bit of a movie weekend, and it was rounded off with watching this cute little song and dance penguin film which also has a strong environmental theme. sounds like it is trying to do too many things – and that does hurt the story telling. it does make you smile and chuckle [...]
day watch
April 14th, 2007 in Film & Photographynight watch was probably the best Russian film i’ve ever seen… OK, it was the first and only Russian film i’ve ever seen! But it was an inspired piece of film making from highly acclaimed director / writer Timur Bekmambetov. the sequel’s trailer has just been released on the apple trailers website and it looks [...]
300
December 17th, 2006 in Film & Photographyone of the most visually stunning trailers currently circulating the internet is for 300. a story about the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, where the King of Sparta led his army against the advancing Persians. adapted from a frank miller novel, this looks like gladiator only on a high dose steroids! check out the hi-def [...]
cars
December 16th, 2006 in Film & Photographyi’ve just finished watching cars from the kings of the animated film, pixar. in my opinion it’s not their best film as it doesn’t top finding nemo, the incredibles or monsters inc but visually it is stunning. you could pause the film at any moment and there is so much detail in the frame and [...]
smokin' aces
December 9th, 2006 in Film & Photographygoing on the trailer, this film looks fantastic – but trailers always make films look good don’t they?! plus point number 1, it’s directed by Joe Carnahan who directed narc (which was great) and was at one time signed up to direct mission impossible 3. second plus point, the cast is really cool. some big [...]
