Celebrate the Classics with a raft of Academy Award® Winning titles up for grabs!

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With awards season in full swing and the Academy Award® nominees now announced, we’ve taken a look back at some of the greatest ‘Best Picture’ award winning films from the last 75 years, and have a selection for you to win! Three lucky Hey U Guys winners can take a stroll down memory lane with seven award-winning DVDs [...]

War Horse Review

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If ever a film was openly seeking Oscar recognition, it’s Steven Spielberg’s latest solemn contender, War Horse, coming hot off the heels of his recent fun family adventure, The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn. No stranger to evoking emotions when he so desires in his dramatic cinematic offerings that include Schindler’s List, [...]

24 words a second: Adapting Novels for the Big Screen

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It’s a concept that directors and audiences alike have been battling with since the birth of cinema; how to convert novels to screen? From the 1930’s classic interpretation of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With The Wind, to the release of Tomas Alfredson’s adaptation of John le Carré’s spy novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy just last week, [...]

HeyUGuys IMDb250 Project – Week 34

Blood Diamond

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 [...]

Avatar’s Inflated Box Office and Other Stories

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James Cameron’s Avatar is now certain to become the highest grossing movie of all time, both at the domestic US Box Office and internationally, well, sort of. Factor in inflation and things look a little different. Ed crunches the numbers and finds out if today’s blockbusters are really more popular than their counterparts from yesteryear.