8 Days until Turbulence Cheltenham Event!

So it's 8 days now until the Frog & Fiddle Tubulence Preview Screening!! I thought I'd blog today as I will be at a Wedding this weekend! :)

The film now has an imdb page here - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2100675/

Another exciting bit of news is that the director has been getting some celebs for the London Screening at the end of November!

You can buy tickets for the event and other screenings here - http://turbulencefilm.com/screenings

Check the event page here - http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=165323923556777&ref=ts

Make sure to come along if you're in the area or let people know about it!

Here are some more pictures of the posters around the uni!

The Assignment Room

in the corridor!

I'm going to get ready for work now but will update you all on Monday when I return from my weekend in Plymouth!

10 Days Until Turbulence Comes To Cheltenham!

So it's until 10 days until the Preview Screening of Turbulence in the Frog and Fiddle in Cheltenham!
We've been busy putting the word out around Cheltenham by putting leaflets in the Parabola Arts Centre and the Town Hall! We've also put up the awesome posters around our uni! Hopefully this will make lots of people come along and have a great time. One of the posters is in the uni assignment room which should get a lot of views as it's where all the students go to drop off and pick up their assignments! 

I cannot wait! I am really looking forward to dressing up - I have my outfit all planned now and it's going to be 80s rockstar inspired! I wonder what everyone will wear! I'm going to be recycling my pirate outfit and turning it rockstar!
It will be my first Film Party and I'm really looking forward to the fun atmosphere and partying!

Parabola Arts Centre!

Town Hall!

Remember to follow Turbulence's Journey on Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/TurbulenceFilm

and Twitter - https://twitter.com/#!/turbulencefilm

I will keep you updated!

Pops

Turbulence Film Event!

I love Twitter! 
I never usually tweet to 'famous' people or people other than my friends, I normally just retweet or ramble! But when I was set an assignment to study the short film Bouncer, I found the director Michael Baig Clifford and tweeted him! I asked him for help with my assignment. He told me I wasn't allowed to cheat which was fair enough! I was very excited to have a reply from a BAFTA award winner! I was even more excited when he tweeted me again asking for me and my friend Stacey to become his Cheltenham Ladies for his new independant film Turbulence!
This meant us finding a venue to show his film! All this was a really good opportunity for us Film Studies students!
We went to a local pub - The Frog and Fiddle as we knew that they were about to do a screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show in a special Barn they have. Michael thought it sounded cool so we got the ball rolling!
We have now booked the venue for Friday the 18th of November! The dress code is Wannabe Rockstar which will be very fun! The Preview Screening will be a fun party and I'm really looking forward to it!
Here are some of the Poster photos in the Frog and Fiddle!
If you're in the area please come along!









Tickets are only £5!
Facebook is - http://www.facebook.com/TurbulenceFilm
Twitter is - @turbulencefilm
Here is the film's website- http://turbulencefilm.com/

Attack The Block, X-Men: First Class, The Wrestler

It's been a while again!
I was on a five hour train the other day with my laptop so what do I do - watch 2 films then listen to an entire Beatles album!

The first film I watched was Attack The Block! I absolutely loved it! I think that you have to be careful with watch you watch on a train as there are people around you, I had headphones but I still don't want anyone to get offended. I thought a comedy about an alien invasion would be fine! Luckily I had a youngish dude sat next to me so I knew it'd be ok!
The only thing was - I kept having to hold in my laughter! I very much enjoyed it! It was hilarious - the characters were great and Nick Frost was hilarious!  I highly recommend this film to anyone who wants a laugh but it does have a great and heart warming end as well! I really can't say much more about it - you just have to see it!


So when that ended I went straight onto X-Men: First Class which was also very very very very good! If you haven't seen it seriously watch it! I loved it all, the casting was great and so was the story and how they introduced the Mutants. James McAvoy was great - he added a bit of Austin Powers to Professor X (In a weird but cool way! Groooovy!) and Michael Fassbender was very very good as young Magneto! Again it's another that I don't want to ruin for those who haven't seen it so just watch it! 

Now the other night we watched The Wrestler. I decided to add it to my LoveFilm because I'd heard it was great and my uncle loves it. I was very happily surprised - I loved the story and how it wasn't all wrestling matches but focused more on the character of Randy. The character was really deep and sad! I think Stacey fell asleep a bit but I loved it! I loved following the character on his highs and lows (mostly lows) and I absolutely loved the end! It is a bit of a tear jerker but it is definitely worth a watch! Mickey Rourke was really good and you completely believe in the character.


And now MisFits has started again and so has Tool Academy! So I may update about them even though they aren't as good as the above mentioned films! I am also still reading Game Of Thrones! (I've been busy with uni work and a personal project as well so haven't had much reading time!) 


If any of you readers are from Cheltenham - come to this: Preview Of Turbulence Film!
And watch the trailer here -  http://www.turbulencefilm.com/

Laters!
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Red State, Straw Dogs and more!

So I haven't blogged for an embarrassingly long time! :/ The worst thing is, there isn't even a real reason for it - I think I just got out of the swing of things! But I'm back now and I've watched loads of films :)

We went to the cinema to see Red State on Monday! Know if you've read my previous blogs you may have picked up on the fact that I love Kevin Smith! I also love horrors so I was very excited when I heard ages ago that he was going to make a horror! I was also very intrigued with the subject of the film as I think that the Westboro Church are crazy! And I don't think that that should offend anyone as most people agree! I loved following Smith's journey with Red State with distributing it himself as I think it's great that he wants to help smaller filmmakers see how they can realise their dreams. Now to the film...I won't say too much about the plot as I don't want to ruin it but I loved it! Now most people aren't surprised that I loved it as I love Smith but I didn't have high expectations because, obviously - it's a completely different style to what he normally does but I did really enjoy it and thought he did it very well! My friend Stacey liked it but she thought that he could of done better! But each to their own! I loved all of the action and was shocked by a lot of the little twists throughout and also absolutely loved the comedic elements Smith put in - they just reminded us that it was his film :) I very much recommend it to anyone who enjoys a horror and a bit of gore! GO SEE IT! 

We just finished watching the original Straw Dogs, it was cool because in the cinema on Monday we saw the trailer for the new re-make and I already had the original on my LoveFilm list and it arrived today! I loved it! I loved Dustin Hoffman and loved that it was filmed down the road from where my mum lives now! I also thought the story was very interesting although I don't want to read the book as books are always more brutal than the film for me as my head really takes everything and makes it loads worse! I do totally understand why the BBFC banned Straw Dogs in the UK as the rape scene is very weird... similar to Evil Dead if you've seen that! I will watch the new one as I'd like to see how they do it - from the trailer it seemed as if they kept it pretty close but we'll see!

We also watched The Next Three Days which was weird - we had to turn it off after an hour and a half because we were both falling asleep and then put it on today after a few days and watched the rest...The first part was so boring and strange but then the second half was good - basically they should of hired a better Editor! The only thing I definitely enjoyed was that Elizabeth Banks was playing a suspected murderer - I was so used to seeing her as Granny Panties in Zac and Miri or other funny roles but she did it so well!
I also want to see Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark although the trailer scared us enough! I hate things where a child is in danger!! So I'll wait for it to come to DVD so that I don't embarrass myself! 

I've watched loads of films over the summer but this blog would take forever if I spoke about them all! So I'll just give a quick list of ones I enjoyed -

Source Code

Right at your Door

Bridesmaids

Harry Potter Deathly Hallows Part 2!

Friends With Benefits
Bad Teacher

and more!!

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A Few Quick Reviews - Scarface, Game Of Thrones, Descent, The Beach!

The Descent 2
The other night we watched the Descent 2 ...I hadn't seen the first one since it came out so I couldn't really remember who was who and who died but my boyfriend was helping me to remember! What we really like is how it starts from the end of the first one and is set two days after the women go down into the caves. This was cool because it was completely the same style and you could watch the first film then the second one after the other and it flowed really well and did have some reminders throughout for those, like me, who hadn't seen the first one for a while! Now I found it quite scary - or at least very jumpy! My boyfriend wasn't feeling it but still enjoyed the film - and it was very gorey still! So I did enjoy it but I think it would of been better if I'd watched the first one first as I did keep having to ask questions! So watch it but watch the first one again if you haven't seen it for a while as they are directly linked! :D


Scarface
Now we also watched Scarface recently and I very much enjoyed it!! Obviously it's an old film and I know that most people have already seen it but I hadn't and had only seen the "Say hello to my little friend!" short part! So I was anticipating that the whole time! The story itself was cool and interesting and I love a bit of violence in films, and I also love a bit of Al Pacino! I was shocked by how his character turned into a drug addict as he seemed quite anti all of that scene at the start but it was justified and it did work well to show how he was breaking. I'm not normally a fan of Michelle Pfieffer but her character was really interesting and added an interesting side to the gangster who says that to get to the top you need a good woman on your side which I liked! =D So overall I did really enjoy it and was a bit sad at the end!!


The Beach
My boyfriend requested that we get The Beach as he loves it so I did because I'm nice! When we got it I started to watch it then remembered how horrible it gets! The idea of The Beach itself it really cool but it all goes so horribly wrong! I don't like when they kill the man and I hate Tilda Swinton unless she's the Snow Queen!! So I did fall asleep... but I know that my boyfriend enjoyed it as much as he usually does which was cool but yeah I just don't like how weird and horrible it gets even though I know that Paradise doesn't exist anywhere so they had to do something but I just wasn't in the  mood for it the other night!!


Game of Thrones Book
So now I have started the book of Game of Thrones and I love it! I love how close to the book the tv series was - even as far as what the characters say! I really love it even though I obviously know what's going to happen but it's still really enjoyable because of the little bits they've left out of the series. One thing that is a bit weird is that in the book the characters are all a lot younger than the series - for example Daenerys (who marries Khal Drogo) is actually 13 in the book! And all of the Starks are a lot younger as well but in a way that adds a different dimension to it as it makes some elements of the story quite sad! When I read it I do picture the actors from the series - just with the children having little bodies and big adult heads - but that's probably just me!! But I do highly recommend the book to everyone as it is really good!

Harry Potter Deathly Hallows Part 2! SPOILERS!!

Hello!! I haven't blogged for absolutely ages!!!! This is bad..! 
So I went to the cinema a while ago and saw Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 2 - I enjoyed it! I'd obviously read the book when it first came out so I knew what was going to happen and that I was going to cry!! I had goosebumps from the very very beginning - literally from when the  Warner Bros sign comes on the screen! They obviously had to miss out a lot of stuff from the book as if not the film would be in 10 parts! It was a bit annoying that Neville didn't get his proper hero moment and that they created a romance between him and Luna - it was silly as it's not in the books and they hadn't even hinted it at it before in the films so I thought it was really unnecessary! Snape didn't have a massive part compared to what he does in the book either which was a shame because his whole story-line is based on whether he is good or bad and the memory could of been more clear that he was good all along! There's no point talking about all of the things they missed as, like I said before - they'd have to make ten films to fit it all in! I was glad though that they played down Fred's death as I would of been really embarrassing in the cinema as that was one of the saddest parts for me! As well as Lupin being killed! But I did cry LOTS when he's in the forest with the ghosts of his loved ones! So it is a very good film but obviously the books are a lot better so I'd recommend anyone to read those then watch the films! It was very sad that the Harry Potter era is over but I'm sure I'll read the books again and again! And it is very cute when you watch the last one and then either watch the first or see pictures of the actors when they first started! They've changed so much!

I haven't watched much else really as I have my old job back for the summer which is cool so there's been less time to watch stuff! My mum ordered me the first book in the Of Fire and Ice series - the books Game Of Thrones is based on! But she hasn't posted it to me yet but I should get it on Monday so that'll be something else to write about!! And I have Scarface from LoveFilm so will hopefully be watching that this afternoon which will be cool to write about as everyone is always to shocked that I haven't seen it so I hope I like it!