Coming highly recommended from Mark Gorman’s blog, H and I rented In Bruges last weekend. Absolutely brilliant. I know I’ve been saying that about a lot of stuff lately, but why should I post about crap stuff?!

This film is extremely well written and laugh out loud funny, in a dark kinda way.  Issues maybe you shouldn’t laugh at, but it feels so good to do.

There is a racist dwarf, that’s all I’m going to say. I’ll let you learn and enjoy the rest.

It’s in the local video shops now (lovefilm as well) and seems to be developing quite a cult following. Films need to work on their promoting; I’ve noticed quite a few that have been brilliant, however due to poor promotion barely anyone/no one hears about them and therefore amazing films aren’t enjoyed by the masses.

That’s why I’m spreading the word here.

I hope you enjoy.

p.s. if you dislike foul language, political incorrectness and violence in films. This might not be for you.

Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin has agreed to make a film about the founders of social networking site Facebook.

Sorkin, who created US TV drama The West Wing and wrote the Tom Hanks movie Charlie Wilson’s War, has even opened a Facebook account to aid his research.

What?!

I use facebook. I am even one of the very few ad/marketing/media/socialmedia people that will admit I LIKE Facebook. But a MOVIE?! How dull and utterly boring would that be. Although I suppose politics can be dull and boring and it’s made interesting and watchable over and over again – but there’s always a good bit of drama: affairs, assassinations and/or attempts, theft, bribery etc… but FACEBOOK? Unless they do some Alien Autopsy type thing with it, I’m not sure I see where this is going.

Next we’ll be watching Bill Gates: From the Begining Correction: we won’t be watching it, they’ll have just spent loads of money that could have been donated to a good cause.

Read the whole story here.
source bbc

via quipsologies

I shouldn’t be so excited, but I feel that I can see where they’re coming from, and I am glad they want to keep claymation alive!

Animators Aardman end movie deal
Still from Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Aardman favourites Wallace and Gromit have won three Oscars
Wallace and Gromit creators Aardman Animations and US studio Dreamworks have ended a five-film deal early…

Where to begin… There are so many things I’ve been wanting to put down to share with the world that, well, others have put down to share with the world.

I’m going to begin with this website I was let to by a blog I read called Quipsologies where people link you to other bad ass places on the web. As being and avid design enthusiast, I very much enjoy the intros into a film as much as or sometimes more than the film itself. Not having done a lot in the editing field, but would have liked to, I sit there in awe and wonder “how’d they do that?!” “that’s amazing” or am completely dumbstruck and silent. We are all overly familiar with the intro the the 007 films and wish that we had a project and/or job that looked half as much fun – although they were probably glad when it was over.

Here is a grat example of the credits of Nanny McPhee Enjoy!