Continuing on from the last entry to this here website; ‘Films That Will Be Nice’, I have since watched them and thought I would share my thoughts on them with you, the little people. Kick-Ass This is another one, just like The Watchmen, that I’ve been looking forward to since I first heard of its catapult from the colourful page to the big screen. I respect both director Matthew Vaughn and star Aaron Johnson for their filmy prowess AND their [...]

Hurray for the modern age! Its affordable cameras has brought us all closer to realising our dreams of creating that personal cinematic masterpiece… much in the same way that being literate has gifted us all the chance to write that timeless novel. In theory, at least. Not many of us bother. Our general lethargy or creative-crestfallenness is clearly not shared with Director, Producer, Co-Screenwriter Jim Groom and his merry bunch of independent filmmakers, who’ve spent 11 long, and frequently painful [...]

It’s that time of year again, folks, where the nights are about 4x as long as the days, you’ve spent all your money on presents and/or scarves and you’ve really got nothing better to do… than to sit and make a audio CD (if you can remember them) that contains all your most wonderlicious musicial moments from the 12 months past. The idea of the compilation CD is thus: with 16000GB capacity MP3 players giving more music at fingertips than [...]

“We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little… we went insane.” – Francis Ford Coppola. Production running waaaay longer than planned? Check. Budgets spiralling out of control? Check. Egos through the roof? Check. Director having his own personal breakdown? Check. Marlon Brando bloated and insufferable? Check. Martin Sheen mid-production heart attack? Check… In the great book of extremely troubled film productions (and there should be one) you’d have to expect a large and significantly [...]