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With so many deals available online we’ve taken the liberty of picking through the bargain bin and pulling out the choicest offers we could find. This week we have an excellent sci-fi film, a famous graphic novel and the latest outing for one of the most popular gaming characters out there. If there’s a deal [...]
This sort of thing can rapidly turn into a vanity project, so I will have to watch my step a little. Laudable as it is to try to bring to people’s attention some splendid films which they may not have seen, it can swiftly deteriorate into, “oh gosh, you haven’t seen Cube: Zero, what kind [...]
Batman trilogy filmmaker Christopher Nolan made his mark on the 70mm IMAX screen in London on Wednesday with studio Warner Bros showing the first six minutes of the new Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises, out in July 2012. Next year’s highly anticipated epic conclusion to The Caped Crusader saga sees terrorist leader Bane (Tom [...]
Over the past few months, we here at HeyUGuys have offered up a number of arguments in defense of underestimated filmmakers, their flawed films and the trends that haunt Hollywood even to this day. Never, however, has a property been more deserving of a rebuttal than George Lucas’ Star Wars prequel trilogy – an alleged [...]
This year sees the release of yet another plethora of comic book adaptations, most recently topped by the arrival of X-Men: First Class in cinemas. To coincide with Matthew Vaughn’s prequel – albeit a prequel with reimaginitive tendencies – the internet has inevitably started buzzing with claims that it may constitute The Greatest Comic Book [...]
Austrian born director, Barbara Eder did a student exchange year at Hanna High School in Brownsville, Texas, on which she based her first feature film, INSIDE AMERICA. Previous to that she studied film directing at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and made numerous short films like SLEEPLESS (2002), TOD, TEUFEL & [...]
Picture the scene. Christmas Day, sometime after lunch. All the presents have been opened, the Christmas dinner has been eaten, the Queen’s speech has been, er, ignored, and now it’s time for the family to sit down on a day of yuletide joy and watch a film together. What should it be? Why of course! [...]
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 [...]
Just in time for the Halloween season, it’s time to break out the horror cards. Now, everyone knows the classics of the ‘70s, ‘80s, and ‘90s, and every year we add the same films to our same old October movie lists. ROUTINE, BE GONE: I present to you five horror films from the recent decade [...]
I was having a conversation with one of my HeyUGuys colleagues on Twitter recently about how I haven’t yet seen The Shawshank Redemption. After the shock of my confession subsided, he had mentioned how great it was going to be for me to experience it for the first time. We then talked about a couple [...]
Kikujiro (Kikujirō no natsu) is an unusual story about little 9 year old Masao, who, when faced with a lonely summer ahead without his friends and just his grandmother for companionship, takes it upon himself to search for his long-lost mother. With the unlikely help of his strange and grave-faced neighbour, ‘Mister’, together they embark [...]
“Hey, let’s go! Hey, let’s go! I’m happy as can be…“ Welcome to the wonderful world of Hayao Miyazaki, world-renowned Japanese Animation Director and creator of award-winning animated films such as Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke and Kiki’s Delivery Service. My Neighbour Totoro (Tonari no Totoro), undoubtedly has brought Miyazaki well-deserved global recognition and international acclaim. [...]
