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Fun Stuff: Best Movie Car Chases
YouTube user Brutzelpretzel did an amazing job at editing together some of the best car scenes witnessed on screen from 1964’s Goldfinger to 2008’s Vantage Point, and with an inspired musi… more →
The Movie Planet
London to Brighton
wrote 6 hours ago: Dir: Paul Andrew Williams. UK. 2006 London to Brighton (image: Paul Stevenson Flickr CC) We do like … more →
UKFC announces that London will now only get 15x more film-funding than the rest of the UK. Big Deal...
wrote 1 day ago: One of the stated aims of the UK Film council’s policy document for the period from April 2010 … more →
Room for romeo brass
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Movie review: Brown, Harry Brown
wrote 1 week ago: Gritty films are like fine Yak cheese. Tough to chew on and harder to digest. They make you phsyical … more →
How many Business Link Advisers does it take to change a Light bulb?
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wrote 1 week ago: Friday 18 December and I’m down to attend Northwest Business Link’s seminar ‘Innovation in Arts And … more →
Time for a reality check - a posting to Shooting People. org
wrote 2 weeks ago: Recently two completely different things have been being conflated in these bulletins: productions f … more →
Review - Pirate Radio (2009)
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wrote 3 weeks ago: by NIR SHALEV Writer/director Richard Curtis, who’d brought us Love Actually reproduces its formula … more →
Retro Review: Shaun of the Dead
wrote 2 months ago: Have you ever felt like an urban zombie? You wake up give a giant yawn, scratch yourself, and stumbl … more →
Steve Perrin to lead UK’s Digital Funding Group - Screen Daily headline today
wrote 2 months ago: Ah yes, Steve Perrin, the man who was centrally involved in the UKFC’s lottery funded ‘D … more →
Weird Review: The Hole
wrote 3 months ago: This is a classic Soothsayer review I wrote back in 2001 on one of Keira Knightley’s first fil … more →
Who Wants To Be Danny Boyle?
wrote 3 months ago: Today we will be looking at Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire the 2008 British breakout hit. … more →
The Picture of Terrible Acting
wrote 3 months ago: Welcome to the first review of FilmWipe365. Unfortunately we start on a sour note with a review of t … more →
What's the point of making derivative genre films?
wrote 3 months ago: My good friend Jenny Inchbald, of Asha Media, Manchester, pointed out to me that the US multiplex mo … more →
American cartel controls British screens - the bare facts and the marketing myth
wrote 3 months ago: Today Screen Daily mentioned some devastating statistics – that 95% of the UK film market is d … more →
Thursday 3 September, Jon attends Film London’s Vanity event: “Microbudget Film: Where’s the beef, where’s the audience?” at the Cornerhouse, Manchester.
wrote 3 months ago: What a silly title to the event: Where’s the beef? On the butcher’s counter in Tesco, Doh! Where’s t … more →
"Happy-Go-Lucky," dir. Mike Leigh
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wrote 3 months ago: Sally Hawkins as Poppy in "Happy-Go-Lucky" Unrelenting sunniness can be very irritating. A … more →
Best of British - Top British films of the last 25 years
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wrote 4 months ago: Mike Leigh's Naked (ooh matron!) My response to today’s Observer Film Magazine list of … more →
Don't believe the hype...
wrote 4 months ago: Recently the UK Film Council has been trumpeting the fact that Hollywood has recently outsourced sev … more →
Color Me Kubrick
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wrote 4 months ago: Brian W. Cook 2005 An unusual film about a real man who impersonated Stanley Kubrick in London in th … more →
