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We’re minutes away from Halloween, and what better way to spend Spooky Season than with a (mildly) spooky film? This week on films I should have seen, I’ve finally watched one of the most romantic films of all time: 1990’s Ghost. Directed by Jerry Zucker and starring Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore, the classic film […]
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I’ve been pretty outspoken about my disappointment in cinema for now being almost exclusively remakes and reboots for quite some time, and though I won’t go out of my way to hate on a film just because it is a sequel I will watch said sequel with a little more critical eye to see if […]
Read More ZOMBIELAND: DOUBLE TAPWelcome to the first ever fivethreeninety report from the BFI London Film Festival! Despite leaving it until the nth hour, I managed to secure tickets for five films at this year’s festival. I was juggling screenings between my full time job and slither of a social life, so it’s taken a bit to actually get […]
Read More LFF: MARRIAGE STORYThis week’s entry in ‘films I should have seen‘ is not only is this an eighties classic that played a prominent part in many people’s childhoods; but is a film my Dad bought me on DVD about ten years ago that I never got round to watching. It’s……….. The Neverending Story. Directed by Wolfgang Peterson, […]
Read More THE NEVERENDING STORYThis week in a films I should have seen, I finally saw a big one: 1967’s The Producers. Written and directed by the great Mel Brooks and starring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder, the film is about two Broadway producers who run a scheme to make money from a guaranteed flop of a show. The […]
Read More THE PRODUCERSThis week’s edition of films I should have seen is 1993’s Dazed and Confused. Richard Linklater’s semi-autobiographical account of a classic American high school experience, specifically on the last day of term in the mid seventies. Written by and directed by Linklater, his apparent intent with the film was to create an “inverse John Hughes […]
Read More DAZED AND CONFUSEDThis weekend, on October 5th, marked the twentieth anniversary of the first episode of Angel. A spin off of the successful Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel ran from 1999 to 2004 & remains to this date (I think), one of the best examples of a television spin off. Indeed, it was only cancelled by the […]
Read More TWENTY YEARS OF ANGELThe past few weeks, London’s BFI IMAX cinema has played host to an exhibition of film memorabilia leading up to the annual Propstore auction where all the items on display were up for sale. The is the third year I have attended the exhibition (you can see previous years in these videos), and this year, […]
Read More PROPSTORE AUCTIONLet’s start this off with a familiar disclaimer: I did actually watch last week’s edition of films I should have seen in advance for the usual Sunday evening blog post about it, but the subsequent blog post about it has been delayed until now (sorry, I guess I never learn). This film is The Lego […]
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