So as you've likely gathered by now, I see a lot of movies, and many of those I do so at the cinema. Indeed, the last few years I've been making great use of my Odeon Limitless Card, getting a lot of bang for my buck, probably even more this year with the newly restored Odeon Leicester Square. Also, I have a few more cinema memberships; Lifetime membership to the Prince Charles Cinema (which has paid itself back so many times since I first got it), and BFI Champion Membership (which comes in very handy booking for the London Film Festival, my main staycation each year). Thing is though, I realised recently that despite this, I don't actively keep track of exactly how often I go, where I go to see them, all that sort of thing. So for this year, I decided to try as an experiment over the course of the year to keep a proper spreadsheet of my cinema visits, and I'm going to use that as the basis of a bunch of blogposts on here.
Monday, 31 December 2018
Film 2019 - With Ed Boff
(Disclaimer: I chose the name of this blogging series before the news that the Beeb were dropping their Film 20XX series. I am a bit sad to see that long-running institution lapse, I wasn't a regular viewer, but any well made resource keeping people interested in the world of cinema is something to be cherished. Keeping the name though!)
So as you've likely gathered by now, I see a lot of movies, and many of those I do so at the cinema. Indeed, the last few years I've been making great use of my Odeon Limitless Card, getting a lot of bang for my buck, probably even more this year with the newly restored Odeon Leicester Square. Also, I have a few more cinema memberships; Lifetime membership to the Prince Charles Cinema (which has paid itself back so many times since I first got it), and BFI Champion Membership (which comes in very handy booking for the London Film Festival, my main staycation each year). Thing is though, I realised recently that despite this, I don't actively keep track of exactly how often I go, where I go to see them, all that sort of thing. So for this year, I decided to try as an experiment over the course of the year to keep a proper spreadsheet of my cinema visits, and I'm going to use that as the basis of a bunch of blogposts on here.
So as you've likely gathered by now, I see a lot of movies, and many of those I do so at the cinema. Indeed, the last few years I've been making great use of my Odeon Limitless Card, getting a lot of bang for my buck, probably even more this year with the newly restored Odeon Leicester Square. Also, I have a few more cinema memberships; Lifetime membership to the Prince Charles Cinema (which has paid itself back so many times since I first got it), and BFI Champion Membership (which comes in very handy booking for the London Film Festival, my main staycation each year). Thing is though, I realised recently that despite this, I don't actively keep track of exactly how often I go, where I go to see them, all that sort of thing. So for this year, I decided to try as an experiment over the course of the year to keep a proper spreadsheet of my cinema visits, and I'm going to use that as the basis of a bunch of blogposts on here.
Sunday, 4 November 2018
October Horror Movie Challenge 2018 – Round Up
Well, the Halloween season is done for another year, and with it, another one of my October Horror Movie Challenges. This year I managed to get up to a new record of 49 movies! Granted, I may have done a teeny bit of cheating in being a bit vague about what counted as "horror", but on the whole I'm still impressed with how many I got through, especially given my "stuff I found in charity shops" method of obtaining material. My fundraiser for the challenge is still open, so if you have been following my Instagram posts on my progress, do please give what you can to Crisis, winter is a hard time for the homeless. So, let's wrap up the whole thing with a look at various highs and lows amongst my movie viewing in Spoopy Season...
Sunday, 30 September 2018
October Horror Movie Challenge 2018 - Pledge and Play Along at Home! #OHMC18
For months it lay dormant, now the October Horror Movie Challenge has arisen once again! The rules for the challenge are, as always, that across the 31 days of October, you must watch at least 31 horror movies, and at least half of those (so 16 or more) must be ones that you are seeing for the first time. Well, I have a big ol' stack of stuff I've been gathering mostly from charity shops across the year, ready to watch on a random draw basis. Also, the London Film Festival is on, and I'm already booked for a bunch of the cult titles they are showing. My current record is 43 films, let's try for even better.
As in previous years, I'm doing this sponsored for Crisis, so please donate what you can. I am likely to turn my brain inside out going through the discards gained from Oxfam shops, lets have at least something good come from the experience. Also, as in previous years, I have a few recommendations of some recent/upcoming releases that you might want to try if you'd like to try the challenge yourself. One good source of films I can recommend right now is Shudder, a very good streaming site with a great selection of horror titles I checked out earlier this year. If you already have Amazon prime channels, you can access it there too. Let's take a look then at some films to get you started with your own journey into fear this year, starting with something coming out on DVD tomorrow...
As in previous years, I'm doing this sponsored for Crisis, so please donate what you can. I am likely to turn my brain inside out going through the discards gained from Oxfam shops, lets have at least something good come from the experience. Also, as in previous years, I have a few recommendations of some recent/upcoming releases that you might want to try if you'd like to try the challenge yourself. One good source of films I can recommend right now is Shudder, a very good streaming site with a great selection of horror titles I checked out earlier this year. If you already have Amazon prime channels, you can access it there too. Let's take a look then at some films to get you started with your own journey into fear this year, starting with something coming out on DVD tomorrow...
Sunday, 22 July 2018
Dear British Film Institute...
Let me make clear where I am coming from with what I am about to say. I am a long time supporter of your works, for over six years now, with the last few being at Champion Membership level. I regularly attend events at Southbank, including the always fun Mark Kermode Live in 3D nights since 2016, I've often bought friends along to these, and I always eagerly anticipate your DVD & Blu Ray releases. What's more, I am an enthusiastic attendee at the London Film Festival (#LFF), and have been for four years now; I'm greatly looking forward to August 30th when all will be revealed and September when I can start booking (hell, I've already booked time off work for it!). However, it's one aspect of scheduling that I am writing this open letter regarding, so let's get right to the point...
I will not attend any #LFF screenings held at Picturehouse venues, unless they start paying Living Wage to their staff.
I will not attend any #LFF screenings held at Picturehouse venues, unless they start paying Living Wage to their staff.
Thursday, 26 April 2018
Avengers Infinity War: THE SPOILER ZONE
You are entering another dimension. A dimension of truths before their time. A dimension that violates causality if you enter enter unprepared. You are about to enter... the Spoiler Zone!
Tuesday, 23 January 2018
Noroi: The Curse
Recently, I finally entered the 2010s and signed up to a streaming video service. No, not Netflix or Amazon Prime. You see, I have a pretty big backlog of unwatched DVDs and Blu Rays to go through, and I know that I went for something with libraries as big as the ones they have, chances are I'd never get to those piles, they'll still be collecting dust come next Christmas. What I decided to try was one that's horror specific, called Shudder. There's a bundle of titles on there I've been interested in for a while, but not so much that I'll need to shell out for more than a month or so to get through all I'm there for.
The main reason I started my free trial of Shudder was to check out a film my brother had mentioned on his blog, Hell House, LLC. It's a found footage movie that, rather just present it as a raw stream of the footage as filmed, instead is edited and presented like a documentary that has gotten a hold of the footage later, which has a few extra advantages. That one is pretty good, and I recommend you check out it, if not on Shudder then on one of the other streaming services it's on, like Prime if you have it. However, what I want to talk about is another film along those lines, a Japanese one from 2005, thus just before the real flood of found footage films began, called Noroi: The Curse.
The main reason I started my free trial of Shudder was to check out a film my brother had mentioned on his blog, Hell House, LLC. It's a found footage movie that, rather just present it as a raw stream of the footage as filmed, instead is edited and presented like a documentary that has gotten a hold of the footage later, which has a few extra advantages. That one is pretty good, and I recommend you check out it, if not on Shudder then on one of the other streaming services it's on, like Prime if you have it. However, what I want to talk about is another film along those lines, a Japanese one from 2005, thus just before the real flood of found footage films began, called Noroi: The Curse.
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