Category: Movies

General movie news

Little Geek Short: Sucked Into a Video Game

This week on the video version of the Film Actually podcast we debuted (The Little Geek) Nicholas’ new Lego animated short film, ‘Sucked Into a Video Game’. It unfortunately doesn’t really have much meaning to the audio listeners so I have posted it here for you to watch (as promised on the show). So here …

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Trailer: Pirates of the Caribbean – On Stranger Tides

Here we go again, the pirates and Johnny Depp are back for another paycheque… sorry I meant another sequel. ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides’ has Captain Jack Sparrow looking for the fountain of youth. It has a new director, Rob Marshall (Chicago) and a new big bad guy in the form of Black …

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Trailer: Thor

A few months ago we saw the Comic Con footage and the Entertainment Tonight footage, today Marvel has released, through Yahoo, the first official trailer for ‘Thor’. I am a little annoyed that it was released the day after we recorded Film Actually but I guess we will talk about it in more detail on …

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Geek Flicks: Friday the 13th (1980)

I want to take you back for a moment. Past the violent blood filled kill-fests we call “gorno”, back past the era of the endless horror sequels, to a time where shoulder pads and frizzy hair are just about to become cool, disco was dead and the film ‘Can’t Stop The Music’ was the thing …

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Trailer: Source Code

I’ve been waiting for a trailer to come along and really get me jazzed for a new film. Here it is. I’m not so excited about the topic of the film, that looks interesting etc., I’m jazzed over the director. Duncan Jones’ first feature was ‘Moon’ and as some of you will remember from last …

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New Trailer: The Green Hornet (Trailer #2)

This is a much better trailer than the first one released but I have to say that I still think the film is going to suck. The formula just looks all wrong to me. I wait to be proven wrong (or right). What did you think? Are you excited about this film? Let me know …

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