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Colin's a music-lover, frequent photographer and sometime musician as well as being a fan of all kinds of films, including those with subtitles and some of the more 'cult' movies (Dark Star anyone?). since joining HeyUGuys he's met lots of wonderful and fascinating people who work in front and behind the cameras and has been to some fantastic and memorable events.
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Troll Hunter is the monster mockumentary that turned heads for its amazing production on a comparatively small budget when it was released in the cinema and for advancing the “found footage” genre further on from other films of a similar vein. In the film student filmographers Thomas (Glenn Erland Tosterud), Johanna (Johanna Mørck) and Kalle (Tomas [...]
Spooks is the long-running BBC TV series depicting the multitude of challenges facing the fictional Section D in the British Security Service as they strive to protect Britain from its enemies both within and without. This 10th and final series builds to a massive climax by exploring the secrets in the past of the ever-dependable [...]
Back in April the animated comedy Rio hit UK cinemas and is the story about a blue macaw, appropriately called Blu and voiced by Jesse Eisenberg, who is taken from the rainforest by poachers but accidentally marooned in snowy Minnesota and raised by Linda (Leslie Mann) as she grows from small girl to small town bookshop [...]
As an avowed Star Wars afficionado of over 30 years I was pleased to have the opportunity to review the latest Clone Wars series on DVD. Clone Wars is a computer-animated spin-off of the Star Wars movie franchise and it explores the further adventures of the Star Wars characters from the Clone Wars period of [...]
You might have seen my earlier report from the unseasonably hot premiere of Johnny English Reborn where the stars walked the red carpet, posed for pictures and signed autographs for the mass of fans present and answered questions for HeyUGuys (HUG) and the rest of the press (ROTP) in the media area. Gillian Anderson – Pegasus [...]
At the UK premiere of Johnny English I got some time to talk with Tim McInnery who plays the wheelchair-bound technologist and armourer Patch Quartermain, but is perhaps better known from the TV series Blackadder although you may also remember him from legendary movie Notting Hill. HeyUGuys: Patch Quartermain is a brilliant character and while everybody probably asks [...]
Fans of BBC’s TV series “Hustle” will be pleased to know that another series is in production and I was lucky enough to catch up with them when they were filming on London’s South Bank. “Hustle” has been running since 2004 on the BBC and this marks the eighth series since its inception by creator [...]
On an remarkably sunny October day the crowds gathered outside the Empire cinema in London’s Leicester Square to celebrate the premiere of the second Johnny English movie, which we at HeyUGuys have been tracking over recent months. Rowan Atkinson arrived in the amazing Rolls Royce from the film and after being interviewed by the waiting TV crews came [...]
House M.D. is the multi-award winning US TV series starring English actor Hugh Laurie alongside a host of other stars including Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard, Jesse Spencer, Peter Jacobson and Olivia Wilde. The show has received four Emmys from twenty-three nominations, two Golden Globes and two Screen Actors Guild awards and has gone [...]
Escape From Madness is a British psychological thriller set against the background of some of the darkest events of the Second World War and in particular events surrounding Himmler, Hitler’s right-hand man, as director Peter J Everett explains: “Himmler believed that the war could be won by using occultism and black magic.” Rather than taking an Indiana Jones-style approach to [...]
London-based Tremulant Design have created an awesome infographic of how the future might pan out if the predictions of movies prove to be anything like correct. It covers a whole range of futuristic movies such as Blade Runner, V for Vendetta and WALL-E and also covers all of the big movie series such as Terminator, [...]
I guess like many people of my age Mark Hamill has been an almost mythical figure to me in that he played Luke Skywalker in Star Wars, the film that virtually every boy I knew of my age wanted to see. It was the film that saw my 12 year-old self in a queue outside [...]
Screwed is a new British movie based on a book by former prison officer Ronnie Thompson and and back in October last year while they were filming a scene based in Iraq I was able to visit the set and see the movie in production. It was a cold and windy day, as you can tell [...]
Back in the cold and dark of last October I was privileged to be invited onto the set of the new British film Screwed, based on a book by former prison officer and now writer, Ronnie Thompson. The set was located on Southend sea front and with the cold wind whipping in off the North [...]
Kung Fu Panda 2 begins with a flashback introduction to the movie’s bad guy, the preening peacock Lord Shen (Gary Oldman), explaining that a terrifying prophecy foretold that a black and white warrior would be his downfall and how this resulted in his killing of all of the pandas in China. From there we find [...]
If you’re in the UK you may have seen this DVD on the shelf of your local store over the last week or so but I’ve held off on this review until now for reasons that will hopefully become obvious further down. Africa United came out last year and our original HeyUGuys review by Lisa [...]
HeyUGuys were proud to be invited to the red carpet at the 2011 BAFTA Awards by Orange tonight in London’s Covent Garden tonight to see some great films celebrated and to take a moment to appreciate the wealth of talent making the films honoured tonight. The King’s Speech lived up to the high expectations it [...]
With the snow thick on the ground and the holiday season well and truly upon us you may be thinking of what movies to watch over Christmas. Do you go for old classics like White Christmas, one of the many takes on Dickens’ A Christmas Carol or one of the more modern movies that crop [...]
Last night I managed to overcome the snow and the crowds in the West End of London to meet the people at Framestore. These are the people who provided Dobby and Kreacher for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 and who were coincidentally celebrating the forthcoming release of the latest Narnia film, Voyage [...]
The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest is an excellent film and you really should see it but there are several reasons why the idea of doing so may not yet have crossed your mind. As you’re probably already aware it’s based on the final book of the late Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy which I [...]
