Monthly Archives: April 2012
Meet Me In St. Louis (1944)
Everyone who knows me, should know how much I love classic films and musicals. A classic musical film, for me brings a nostalia, happiness and warmth. With how depressing the great British weather has been lately, how nice was it for Film4 to put this magic film on?! Oh yes I am talking about the […]
The Warriors (1979)
I had almost forgotten this late 70′s low-budget masterpiece from Walter Hill, till it came on TV over the weekend. I remember watching this film when I was about 8 and being in total awe of the filmmaker, and watching it again 17 years after, I still salute Walter Hill. The story begins with The Warriors, a […]
Conor Maynard
Hailed as the British version of Justin Beiber, Conor Maynard is fast becoming the the ”New Kid on the Block”. He has been a YouTube sensation for a while now, with amazing renditions of Chris Brown’s ”Crawl” and Taio Cruz’s ”Dynamite” among others. His debut single ”Can’t Say No” has just been released in the […]
Pan’s Labrinth (2006)
Guillermo del Toro’s masterpiece I truly believe is the best in his career to date. The film is set in 1944, half a decade after the Spanish Civil War, during the strict Franco era. The story tells of a girl names Ofelia (Ivana Baquero), whose mother marries and falls pregnant by Captain Vidal, a psychotic […]
The Hunger Games (2012)
This is one lottery that you wouldn’t want to win.. Based on the novel by Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games focuses on Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence), a teenage girl living in “District 12,” one of the fenced-in Districts in what was once America but has since become a totalitarian state, traumatised by chronic food shortages and ruled […]
