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DVD of the Week – Great Expectations (Mike Newell, 2012)

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"Everything I learned, I learned from the movies" - Audrey Hepburn

Great Expectations is a passionate coming of age tale about a working class orphan boy named Pip. He is a boy that desires nothing more than to live out his ‘great expectations’ and transit from rags to riches into a wealthy gentleman. After meeting the tragic Miss Havisham who, since she was jilted at the alter, remains clad in her dusty, withering wedding dress, Pip is provided with a great sum of wealth from a mysterious benefactor. In an attempt to make himself an appropriate suitor for Estella, (Miss Havisham’s ward who Pip has fallen irrevocably in love with), Pip exploits the opportunity without a second thought. The tale transforms into an intelligent examination of class divide and questions the power of money in changing our fate.

Far from a typical Dickensian tale of a gentle orphan boy who finds his happy ever after, Great Expectations brings to light the darker side…

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"Everything I learned, I learned from the movies" - Audrey Hepburn

     Frankenweenie is a sparky little tale telling the story of Victor Frankenstein, a typical Burtonesque protagonist, and his loveable pet dog, Sparky. After the playful pooch falls prey to a fatal accident, leaving him dead and buried on top of a sinister hill, Victor attempts to reanimate his corpse in typical Frankenstein fashion, turning the charming children’s story into another brilliant Burton genre mashup of horror, comedy, fantasy and science fiction.

Unlike Burton’s previous few films, Frankenweenie returns to his roots of a love for Hammer House horror movies, and doing so in what can only be described as an elegant, nightmarish encounter with the  hauntingly imaginative mind of Tim Burton. The German Expressionist elements are boldly evident throughout the film, from the stark contrasts in lighting, to the ghoulish shadows reminiscent of F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu (1922), extending to the characters clad in Expressionist fashion. Similarly, Frankenweenie is…

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Hey guys – my film blog which I update daily (as I don’t really go on this blog so much anymore :-)) Check it out and follow and if you have a film blog, let me know (preferably on the other blog) and I will follow back :-)

Click here for my film blog.

Click here for my film facebook page.

Click here for my film tumblr.

Click here for my film twitter.

 

YAY 😀

Follow my Film-based Twitter/blog/facebook account :D

Okay, so as I’m not focusing so much on this blog anymore, as I have said previously, I have a Film Tumblr that I just created which you can visit (and follow!!) here. I apologise for anyone who found the link to be broken on the previous post; I recently changed the name and only just updated it on here.

On my film tumblr you will find any news relating to the Film industry, links to my published articles, and many photos and gif sets of films from the silent era up until the present day.

You can also visit my film-based Twitter here, and you can follow my film-based facebook here.

I would appreciate any new followers in supporting me whilst I build up my reputation in writing about and researching film. I also love discovering new film blogs, so if you have one, or know of one, or even a film twitter or facebook, then send me a comment and I’ll check it out and follow 🙂

I shall also be creating a new WordPress especially for Film soon, and will be posting the link soon 🙂

My new film blog :D

Hi guys, I have made a Tumblr specifically for Film and Movies 😀 I’m kind of building up my whole delving into film theory/research and although a Tumblr doesn’t do that so much, I thought it would be a cool place to post links to my articles, etc, and also reblog cool gif sets/photo stills from films.

For any of you who have a Tumblr account, you can follow me here.

If you have a film tumblr, or even a film-based wordpress account, (or post a lot of things to do with films), then follow me and send me a message saying you post a lot of film stuff, etc, and I’ll check your blog out as I’m looking for blogs to follow to repost cool film things 😀

I’ll be making a new wordpress account soon for Film stuff which I will post a link to on here when I do. I don’t really have the time to maintain this blog anymore because I just spend so much time studying/watching films/reading, etc. I thought a Film blog would be better because I am seriously considering a career in Film research, etc and think it would be cool to kind of write mini essays about film, maybe throw in some movie/dvd reviews, articles, etc. So I will keep you guys updated on that.

Lastly, I’d just like to say an amazing thank you to all of my followers and all those people who keep on visiting my blog each day. The amount of views/comments/feedback etc I receive is amazing. I genuinely have no idea why you guys keep on visiting my blog but I love you all for it, so thank you 😀

Check out my film tumblr anyway and I hope to see you guys on there and my new film WordPress blog soon!!!

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Top 5 reasons for procrastination

Inspired by the fact I have been working on a 2000 word essay non-stop for the past 10 days and still haven’t perfected it, I have looked at what my top 5 reasons for this are, so here goes:

5. Skype – Sometimes when I have an essay, I tell my best friend I will go on Skype with her and talk whilst I do my work, thinking I can resist showing her random stuff on the webcam, but can I? NO!!! So Skype is number 5 for the reasons I avoid my essay.

4. Eating + Movies – This Christmas my computor has been in the diningroom/kitchen and attempting to write an essay when there have been so many amazing biscuits staring at me is really hard, so I get some food and end up watching a movie whilst I eat which takes like 90 minutes of my time, so I end up being distracted for ages.

3. Video Games – I have 8 different gaming platforms, and so many games on each that trying to complete an essay whilst I have different games I am in the middle of is hell. My xbox is the main culprit, paticularly seeing as my best friend is always asking me if I want to party up and play a game, so I am like ‘okay’ as I live like 300 miles from her so it’s always good to have a catch up with her, then I end up playing my xbox for hours and neglecting my essay…

2. Youtube Videos – As much as I love Youtube, I simultaneously hate it with a passion. I end up going on there to search for a particular song, movie trailer, whatever, and there is this wonderful but tempting list at the side with similar videos, and I think to myself ‘I’ll just look at one more’, and then before I know it, 5 hours has passed…

1. Online Arcade Games – Okay so this one’s a little different to playing video games. Online games, and by this I mean the old Snes games like Doom and Contra are so addictive, paticularly seeing as you can’t really save them so you don’t want to lose your data so try and complete the game before turning it off. Whilst doing my essay I have been non-stop playing all these old arcade games on the internet and even games like Runescape, although admittedly I have gone off that in the past couple of years or so, and it’s only now I am realising how much time I have wasted… Still, it was worth it ^_^

And so there are the top 5 reasons for procrastination, no matter how much willpower you may have, you have to admit it is pretty hard to resist procrastinating when the only alternative is an essay…

First documentary submitted into a Film Festival

As part of our university Film course, we had to make a documentary, and my group made ours about my autistic brother and my mum’s acceptance of him having to move out. We have entered it into film festivals and here it is:

Letting Marc Go from Tasha Saxby on Vimeo.

I was the director on the film, but the film is uploaded on the cinematographer, Tasha Saxby’s Vimeo account. She has a lot of great short films, so be sure to check them out!!

A few New Year resolutions for 2012 :D

I never really ‘officially’ make any resolutions, but maybe this year I will and maybe this year I shall stick to them 😀

So here goes I guess….

1. Finish off watching that Empire top 500 movies. I gave myself to the end of this year to finish it, but at the rate I am going I have to watch at least one of the films every day….

2. Read War and Peace. Yep!! Gonna try and read one of the longggggest books ever written by good old Tolstoy. It’s supposed to be really boring, so it’ll be a heck of an achievement if I do it haha, so Imma give it a go 😀

3. Finish a Final Fantasy game!!! I have been playing FF games for over 11 years…. and I have never finished one… I’m close to the end on a fair few of them, but I want this to be the year I actually finish one. I’m thinking FFX, Ring of Fates or maybe FF9 as that is the one I started when I was 9 😛 And I am 20 now haha.

4. Try and have more motivation to do my work… It’s so hard sometimes to stay motivated when you just want to play video games or when there are amazing youtube videos with amazing videos on the side bar which you just have to click whilst saying ‘just one more!!’

5. Last but not least… Develop my piano skills. I have been playing the piano since I taught myself when I was 5, then started lessons, I am having lessons again after a gap as I always regretted giving it up, and only did because I chose swimming lessons as my mum said I would drown if I didn’t have swimming lessons and I believed her… and then whilst I had swimming lessons, we got them at school for free… so I never needed them in the first place, and I can’t even swim anymore… so I need to get back on track with the piano ^_^

So those are my resolutions. I’m not sure if I will actually stick to them, but I guess I shall see 😀 Better start with number 4… as I am supposed to be doing my essay right now 😉

If any of you guys have any resolutions I would love to hear them 🙂

So bye bye for now 😀