The LFF kicks off tonight (a gala screening of ‘Eastern promises’) so I thought I should really get my shit together and write up some reviews of what i’ve seen so far…. this is the first post of many.
I’m thinking a good way to rate these rather than ’stars’ is to tell you how long [...]

I pride myself with knowing a lot of useless shit about films, too much useless shit if i’m honest, yet somehow this gem of information had eluded me until now. The Manchester Morgue Blog had this (above) Japanese version of the poster for ‘Army of Darkness’.. renamed in Japan to ‘Captain Supermarket’ (Kyaputien supamaketto: Shiryo [...]

“A secret NATO train filled with US Marines is halted by a bolshy local station master; rambunctious Balkan farce moves inexorably to tragedy as the soldiers and townspeople try to fraternise.”
Sitting down to watch what I thought was going to be a dark satire on the conflict in Kosovo, and American military interference in foreign [...]

Some subjects, although seemingly interesting documentary fodder are always going to be difficult to watch when they’re committed to celluloid. Certain things are just genuinely difficult to digest, other things are ultimately not as interesting as the filmmakers thought they would be and some things… well…they’re difficult to take seriously, no matter how balanced and [...]

As a film fan I think i’m pretty easy to please. If you throw a couple of key ingredients into the mix you’re almost certain to please me. One thing you can guarantee is if you turn on the Terrence Malick visuals (roaming landscapes.. filmed mostly at ‘the magic hour’ with people starring into the [...]

I read a lot of other movie blogs, a…lot. Most of the time you’ll see the same pieces of news dotted around, new trailers.. ‘exclusives’ all that stuff, but occasionally you get a story that you can tell has got people excited because EVERYONE is talking about it.
So the Hot Topic this morning is [...]

So i’ll pick some names out of my ass at the end of the day (that’s about 6pm UK time)…. so get your entry in while you still have a shot. The full details are here if you missed it the first time around…
drop me an email to competition@solaceincinema.com with the word ‘Daywatch’ in the [...]