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Imagine it’s Christmas 2012, in a parallel universe where DVD categorisation means nothing to me and I can group films together according to logic rather than alphabet (like actually being able to put Batman Begins and The Dark Knight together). Parallel Me has just received all the films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe on DVD [...]

If you ask any of my friends and family, they will tell you how unbearable I am on the day of the Academy Awards. I love the celebration of cinema and stay up until 5am every year to watch the star-studded ceremony. I struggled to stay awake during my lectures on Monday, but it was [...]

For those of you that we have yet to reach with our posters, EPIC trailer (see the end of this blog if you somehow missed it) and all round Bond related awareness campaign it is nearly time for Union Films next big event: The James Bond All-nighter . On March 10th at 6pm the doors [...]

When I was a younger man with less of a bald spot, my Dad and I watched TV a lot together. Due South was a firm favourite, but we also would allow ourselves to get sidetracked from whatever it was we were doing if Bond happened to be showing on the telly; an archaic mysoginyst [...]

In a series of pieces, I am trying to encourage other Union Films Bloggers to write about a minor actor they find interesting in the Bond franchise. Among the minor actors that grace the Bond franchise from time to time, one name in my family is well known: that of Walter Gotell, my Great Uncle-in-law [...]

Countless films have been made on the subject of the Holocaust and the effect of the Second World War on Europe. Few, however, strike a deeply emotional cord or can be said to be carefully accurate in regard to the events that took place at the time. Elle S’appellait Sarah (Sarah’s Key), a 2010 film [...]

Sometimes, you just can’t beat curling up on of the sofa under a duvet, with your finger ready on the play button of an old movie. Singin’ in the Rain, It Happened One Night, Casablanca, Gone with the Wind… we’ve all seen them (at least I hope you have) and then we’ve seen them again, [...]

Unlike our dear Front of House Manager, I am (or at least was. Thanks, graduation) a film student and thought I’d throw in my whole two cents on whether or not we are pretentious via my top 10 films of 2011 list. May as well make it clear that under no circumstances do I think [...]

Musical theme reuse has become my film-geek obsession. There are two things I excel at in film-nerd-terms and that is spotting the Willhelm Scream, and spotting film re-use. I’m also quite good at spotting actors and voices who are lesser known but crop up in films from time to time- but this is negated by [...]

With the 3D re-release of the Star Wars trilogies due this week, we can expect a multitude of small but significantly annoying changes to the original films. I will just state for the record that the prequels are particularly poor in comparison to the original trilogy, so for this post I will ignore the prequels completely and [...]