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Ashley Norris

I'm a twenty year-old film-lover, full-time procrastinator and rambler. There's too little time to accomplish everything. Follow me on Twitter @ashleyrhys for more.


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    The HeyUGuys Interview: Director Andy Wilton Talks Behind the Scenes of Total Hell

    behind the scenes of total hell

    Indie productions have shifted into overdrive with the ease that they can now be created. Most only aspire to be short films with a budget of £1000 but director Andy Wilton stayed bold and true with his idea to create his first feature-length Behind the Scenes of Total Hell. In fact, he’s created two as [...]




    Evil Dead 2 Blu-ray Review

    Evil Dead 2

    With Fede Alvarez’s Evil Dead remake now out in cinema it seems a fine time for the sequel to Raimi’s original cult classic to be given the Blu-ray treatment. The film is actually a remake. More money and fewer production problems result a much scarier, camp follow-up that some may say even surpasses the original. [...]




    Behind the Scenes of Total Hell Review

    Behind the Scenes of Total Hell

    This is a mockumentary much like the most famous uses of the style – The Office, Arrested Development and so on – but applies it to the creation of a separate film. It takes us behind the scenes of a horror production (Total Hell) and shows all of the problems of filmmaking, financing and distribution [...]




    She Monkeys DVD Review

    She monkeys

    A modern Swedish western and coming-of-age drama is hardly the hybridisation you would expect. Lisa Aschan’s directorial debut is this amalgamation of genres, as well as bicuriousity, control and awkward overt sexualisation of a seven year-old. Unrecognisable genre-blending has made this a most refreshing piece of cinema, one which has kept the confusion and inherent [...]




    Vito DVD Review

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    The equality battle still rages on. Profile pictures all over the internet are red with an equal sign showing viral activism for the right to marry whoever. Viral activism is the result of years of activism by the closeted, cornered few that turned into many. Now with a few clicks it’s OK to want these [...]




    Turn Me On, Dammit! DVD Review

    Turn Me On, Dammit!

    An eye-catching title will set this apart from other films – mainly as a possible date-night film that will excite – but those for looking for something pornographic or blurring the boundaries of that will probably be disappointed. This is a coming of age comedy more than anything else while dealing with a sensitive issue [...]




    You Should be Watching: House of Cards

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    In a world where cards are held against chests, it’s all about deceiving others. Bluffing, lying, cheating are all a part of the game in politics. Francis Underwood (Kevin Spacey) is the man who will do anything to get his way after not being unexpectedly passed over for secretary of state. In the series’ first [...]




    Silent Hill: Revelation Blu-ray Review

    Silent Hill: Revelation 3D

    Suffering from problems with the running time, trite dialogue and scenes of little consequence stuck together by incoherence and ambiguity Silent Hill was far from a masterpiece. It did, however, have a number of good ideas and the potential to build on them with this sequel. Silent Hill: Revelation fixes the running time by making [...]




    Detachment Blu-ray Review

    Detatchment

    It’s weird seeing a follow-up from a director who has made such a classic film yet nothing since. It’s even more weird that the film, American History X, isn’t something he’s proud of and tried to change his name to Humpty Dumpty on it. Odd, still, that Detachment, the new film from Tony Kaye, went [...]




    Samsara Blu-ray Review

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    Here is a documentary so difficult to describe it’s hard to understand the motivation to watch it never mind to think that you’d like it. A wordless documentary filmed over twenty-five countries in five continents, it’s all about the imagery and the accompanying music so that you may interpret it as you wish. All the [...]




    The Impossible Controversy

    The Impossible

    In one of the earliest releases of 2013 there’s already been a massive controversy surrounding one of the films. The Impossible  has been criticised heavily for reasons that are possibly oversensitive. Could it be that the world is becoming overly-sensitive in its need for censorship?And if it is a need for censorship, will we ruin [...]




    Peep Show Season 8 DVD Review

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    Hearing the familiarity of the theme tune blast through the TV set will fill you with joy if you’re already a fan of Peep Show. If you’ve somehow not seen the brilliance that is Peep Show then you can go buy them all on DVD or even catch up now on Channel 4′s 4oD service. [...]




    Top Ten: A Look back at the Best Films of 2012

    The-Descendants

    To start this off, I want to establish that this is all my opinion and only my opinion. It does not reflect the views of HeyUGuys nor anyone else on here intentionally and this is entirely an opinion piece. Another thing to establish is that I’ve unfortunately not seen every film of 2012 because my [...]




    The World is Ending… Let’s Watch How it Might! Seven Big-Screen Apocalypses

    World Ending

    Although it’s Christmas time, mistletoe and wine, children singing something rhyme, there’s a sense of dread slightly dampening the mood. Getting into the spirit is difficult when some Mayans have selfishly predicted the end of the world just four days before Jesus’s birthday. There’s a sense of gloom from our impending doom that has been [...]




    Farewell, My Lovely DVD Review

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    This is the third adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s Farewell, My Lovely but the first under its real name. The other two incarnations are the 1942’s The Falcon Takes Over and 1944’s Murder, My Sweet but this is the more faithful one of the movement to the big screen. In true, neo-noir fashion, it begins with [...]




    Glengarry Glen Ross Blu-ray Review

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    When moving something from the stage it can be risky. The stage gives a more focused view with small sets that can bring the intimacy to the piece that makes it successful, when moving it to the screen, the idea of the intimacy can get lost and the sets can become massive. The 1992 film [...]




    Derren Brown: The Experiments DVD Review

    Derren Brown- The Experiments

    Derren Brown: The Experiments DVD review. Opinions seem to be divided when it comes to Derren Brown, or illusionists in general really. There are some who are fascinated by them, captivated by their intricacy so much that it feels magical; then there are the others who know it’s fake, finding it more boring and infuriating [...]




    A History of the World in Two Hours Blu-ray Review

    A History of the World in Two Hours Blu-ray

    The History of the World in Two Hours is an ambitious title, a provocative one if the world is of interest to you. Although, the title is a bit misleading, it spans 13.7 billion years and covers the birth of the universe as well as the history of the world. That’s a lot of information [...]




    In Defence of… Kristen Stewart

    Kristen Stewart

    It seems too easy to bash this girl; everyone seems to be jumping on board. In fact, it has become a meme to find things with more facial expressions than Kristen Stewart. Her sparkly companion, Robert Pattinson, receives criticism too but less for reasons that are unknown – perhaps it’s because of how openly he [...]




    In Memory of Tony Scott

    Tony Scott

    It’s a sad reason to be writing this way; it’s a sad article to write for anyone but even more so with a man who took his own life for reasons currently unknown. Tony Scott is a legend in the filmmaking business and he influenced more than just a generation and a genre but the [...]