I’ve not been terribly good at getting to the cinema recently, but the Oscar nominations last week have focussed my mind. I didn’t want 2014 to be yet another year where I hadn’t seen the winner of the Best Picture Academy Award in advance of the ceremony. Given that until today I had only seen two of the nine nominees…
Top Ten: 2001 Films
13 September 2013 by 2 Comments
A couple of weeks ago on a Facebook film discussion page someone posted a challenge for me to name my Top Ten films of 2001. I could have just left a comment on the page with the list but thought why not go the whole hog and actually write a post. 2001 wasn’t a classic year in film and saw the release of Freddy Got Fingered, Pearl Harbor and Planet of the Apes…
World War Z
24 June 2013 by Leave a Comment
’ve been telling everyone I can that key scenes in World War Z were filmed in my home city of Glasgow and that one of the buildings that features prominently (Glasgow City Chambers) is my dad’s office. I even shared some photos from the set. I had taken World War Z on as my own personal film…
Top Ten: Tantalising 2013 Trailers
19 April 2013 by 4 Comments
2013 is looking like a decent year for cinema. The beginning of the year saw some great films released – Les Miserables, Zero Dark Thirty and Lincoln are among my favourites and the summer blockbuster season has already had a decent start…
World War Z Trailer
9 November 2012 by Leave a Comment
The trailer for Brad Pitt’s zombie apocalypse movie World War Z has now arrived and it looks good. Not just because of Mr Pit, or the fast zombies or the billions dead but because Glasgow looks fab. Much of the filming for this movie was done in my home city, right next to my dad’s office…
Moneyball Trailer
14 September 2011 by 4 Comments
Moneyball is Brad Pitt’s latest film and I must admit when I heard about it I wasn’t that interested. Pitt stars as the coach of a poverty-stricken baseball team who turns to a computer programmer to help identify which players he needs to buy. Sound good? No not to me either but the trailer has made me wonder. Pitt appears to be in charismatic form as the determined coach and I am now beginning to see the appeal of Moneyball.
World War Z comes to Glasgow – and my dad gets involved in the action
23 August 2011 by Leave a Comment
Glasgow City Centre has been taken over by mindless, bloodthirsty creatures hell-bent on violence and mayhem. So many jokes come to mind about rough estates, Old Firm fans….