Everyone has a favourite Christmas movie, right? This December Queens Film Theatre and Jameson Whiskey are going to show one of three classic Christmas movies: Die Hard (1988) Elf (2003) or National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989) The choice is pretty easy, right? Die Hard for sure! Certainly my choice in this case. Elf is just [...]

The story of Facebook, as we are being led to believe it, is very one-sided: A tale of horny guys who just want to get the approval of the girls and popularity of the cool kids, that and theft, betrayal and stupidity. The film is based on the book Accidental Billionaires, in which author Ben [...]

Toy Story 3 is by far one of the greatest films I’ve seen in a long time. An emotional roller coaster of tears and laughter, of love, loss, redemption, childhood, memories, growing up, and of playing with the toys we did as kids. It is a beautiful reminder to those of a certain age who [...]

SNAP! Screening a series of short documentaries from FourDocs and 3 Minute Wonder. Thursday 27th March 2008 The Drawing Office, Titanic Quarter, 2 Queen’s Road, Queens Island, Belfast [MAP] Doors open 7pm, screening at 8pm Free admission Part One 3MW: Mouthing Off: Scoring (Ken Wardrop) 3MW: Lee Kern’s A-Z of London: Love (Lee Kern) 4Docs: [...]

Anyone who knows me will know that I love Johnny Depp. A lot. Having seen many of his movies, unfortunately not all – but I have a feeling that will change as I begin obsessing over him again. Even though I find many of them to to be a bit crap (Secret Window, From Hell) [...]

Definitely enjoying getting mail so often. Yesterday the card reader and diffuser arrived. Today my new hard drive arrived. It also means my bro delivers the stuff to me, we go for coffee and I have someone to photograph. We both got coffee and muffins yesterday. Then went to see The Good Shepherd. We had [...]

Sometimes you gotta look beyond everything think you know about a place to find out what’s really going on. Its happening more and more and more. Belfast really is a ‘happening’ place. Sometimes. This time, movies are in the spotlight with the launch of the Belfast Film Festival. Into its 7th year, the festival spans [...]

One month ago I decided to attempt to watch as many films nominated for this year’s Oscars as possible. I managed 15. Pretty pathetic I know, but I’m still quite proud of myself. I’ve never been one to watch many films. I put this down to my short attention span and preference to use my [...]

It seems to be that throughout the whole of January people talk about their new year’s resolutions. Whether they have still managed to keep to them and if they have given up. Then there’s the people who go through the whole month saying “another of my new resolutions is to…” 3 weeks into the month. [...]

I have become a regular reader of The Guardian over the last month or so. I read in last saturdays edition that they will be giving away a free copy of Supersize me today. It is a great movie, and after watching Morgan Spurlock‘s 30 Days series a few weeks ago followed closely by the [...]