Some thoughts about the 6 films we saw during the Gone Fishing seminar last week, starting with the obvious.
Gone Fishing
Gone Fishing is, in all honesty, a very good film and I really am not just saying that because it was the focus of the seminar or because Chris Jones is a nice guy. I hadn’t [...]
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Gone Fishing Seminar: The Short Films
A Dark Day for The Dark Knight
See what I did there? Clever, innit! What? Alright, alright! No need to be rude about it! Jeez – switch to decaf.
Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah – this hoo-haa about Christian Bale losing his rag with a DoP on the set of Terminator: Salvation. What a douche! To put it in his own words, [...]
Atomic Comedy: Whatever happened to AtomFilms?
I had a bit of a falling out with AtomFilms last year (maybe the year before) because they refused to display a video of “A Very English Fairy Tale” because of license infringement on the soundtrack. In fact I was using the music under a Creative Commons license and I also emailed the composer for [...]
Home Invasion
I engaged in a rather bizarre double bill back in December – bizarre not only because of the astronomical difference in quality of the two films in question but also because I saw them on different days. Well, alright, it wasn’t a proper double bill but whatever. The point was that I watched two films [...]
AvP: Prologue
Although it’s been on release in the States since Christmas Day, this weekend sees the UK release of Aliens vs Predator: Requiem, the sequel to the hit 2004 movie, Alien Vs Predator. Yes, that’s right, the hit movie – despite being slated by both critics and fans, the film made more money relatively in [...]