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Six of the Best: Movie Memorabilia at Auction

Auctioneer

If you’re a movie fan with a dozen thousand pounds gestating in your wallet then you may be looking for a unique addition to your movie memorabilia collection. We were asked by Money Supermarket  to look at some of the famous pieces which have gone under the auctioneer’s gavel in recent years and there’s enough [...]




Book Review: Masters of Cinema – Orson Welles & Charlie Chaplin

masters of cinema charlie chaplin

In December of last year I reviewed the initial ten books in the excellent Masters of Cinema collection from Cahiers Du Cinema, published in the UK by Phaidon Press and I’ve been sent two of the next batch to be released. Here Charlie Chaplin and Orson Welles are under the spotlight, the other new books [...]




Infographic – The BAFTA Awards by Numbers

HeyUGuys BAFTA Infographic 2011

It’s been a long time coming but here is the very first original HeyUGuys infographic! Since it’s awards season, we thought what better topic to pic than our very own flagship home grown movie awards ceremony, the BAFTA Awards! The BAFTA Awards have been taking place since 1947 and as you’ll see when you look [...]




BBC Archive Release: Hollywood Voices

BBC Archive Bette Davis

Here’s another wonderful Christmas present from the good people over at the BBC Archive. Following their captivating James Bond at the BBC online exhibition the BBC Archive have collected recorded interviews with the giants of Hollywood’s past which offer a wonderful and unique retrospective on Hollywood and movie making. Giants of the silent era are [...]




HeyUGuys IMDb250 Project – Week 30

die hard

The IMDb250. A list of the top 250 films as ranked by the users of the biggest Internet movie site on the web. It is based upon the ratings provided by the users of the Internet Movie Database, which number into the millions. As such, it’s a perfect representation of the opinions of the movie [...]




Lost Chaplin Film Screens at Virginia Film Festival

Chaplin A Thief Catcher

A 16MM print of a 1914 Keystone Cops short, purchased last year at a Michigan antiques sale, turned out to contain an early ‘lost’ 3 minute appearance by Charlie Chaplin as a bumbling Keystone Cop. Film historian Paul Gierucki thought the Keystone short ‘A Thief Catcher’ he bought was of no particular significance and did [...]




HeyUGuys IMDb250 Project – Week 24

For a Few Dollars More

The IMDb250. A list of the top 250 films as ranked by the users of the biggest Internet movie site on the web. It is based upon the ratings provided by the users of the Internet Movie Database, which number into the millions. As such, it’s a perfect representation of the opinions of the movie [...]




HeyUGuys IMDb250 Project – Week 18

Ratatouille

The IMDb250. A list of the top 250 films, as ranked by the users of the biggest movie Internet site on the web. It is based upon the ratings provided by the users of The Internet Movie Database, which number into the millions. As such, it’s a perfect representation of the opinions of the movie masses, [...]




HeyUGuys IMDb250 Project – Week 14

finding nemo

Week 14 and another update from the IMDb250 project (Sorry it’s late). This week I got another chance to see one of the most incredible movies ever made in the Clyde Bruckman/Buster Keaton masterpiece ‘The General’ which I will talk more about later. I also watched the brilliant Finding Nemo from Pixar and another Charlie [...]




HeyUGuys IMDb250 Project – Week 4

Spirited Away

The IMDb250. A list of the top 250 films, as ranked by the users of the biggest movie Internet site on the web. It is based upon the ratings provided by the users of The Internet Movie Database, which number into the millions. As such, it’s a perfect representation of the opinions of the movie masses, [...]