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I’ve had the same TV (a 32″ Toshiba WLT 58) for around 5 years now and when I bought it, I was completely blown away at how great it was but at the time, £1200 would buy you a 32″ TV which was HD Ready at 720p. Five years on, TV’s have got an awful [...]
Entertainment Weekly are carrying a story on a new television collaboration between awesomely talented film/tv producer and director J.J. Abrams (Lost, M:I-3, Star Trek, Super 8, Cloverfield) and Jonathan Nolan, co-writer of Christopher Nolan projects such as Memento, The Prestige and The Dark Knight. The project is a crime-thriller TV series, which Jonathan Nolan has created. [...]
3d TVs started shipping this week in the UK. Could this be the biggest shakein the world of TVs for a while? Progress is always great when it comes to technology and I love thinking about the fact that the television really is still quite a new invention. We’ve had still images change to moving [...]
There were quite a few 3D movies released in theatres last year, certainly more than any other year in recent memory. Along with the news that 3D televisions and even video games were in development, 3D was already on the horizon. Then of course came Avatar, and the great technical work and huge box office [...]
In our continuing Twin Peaks retrospective I take a look at the David Lynch/Mark Frost helmed comedy series, On The Air. Don’t worry you read the title right, it says VHS review. This is because, sadly, the only way you can watch David Lynch and Mark Frost’s excellent series On The Air is either on [...]
Today marks the 20th anniversary of Twin Peaks first airing and if you’ve been reading the site the past couple of weeks you will have seen that we are running a celebratory retrospective in honour of this. If you would like to follow our retrospective just click here or on the banner to the right. There [...]
UK fans of Twin Peaks have had a long time to wait to own the whole series on DVD. The first season was released many years ago but the second season box set never materialised in the UK. The second season was released in America though and there was also a box set released in [...]
**SPOILER WARNING – in the post and clip below there are heavy spoilers for Twin Peaks** Hopefully after following our retrospective on Twin Peaks, if you hadn’t already seen Twin Peaks you’ve now checked it out and you are probably still left with many questions. One of the biggest questions raised early on in Twin [...]
Twin Peaks was not just successful in Europe and America but it has also developed a huge following in Japan. In the early nineties the prequel film, Fire Walk With Me (retitled Twin Peaks: The Last Seven Days of Laura Palmer), was a big box office success, Dale Cooper’s favourite dish, Cherry Pie, became really popular and [...]
In our continuing retrospective on Twin Peaks we look back at the women of Twin Peaks who helped make the series great. Despite Dale Cooper being the central protagonist in Twin Peaks, crucial to success of the series is the ensemble cast which is dominated by a collection of strong female characters. Probably the most iconic [...]
Studio Ghibli are most famous for their feature films such as My Neighbour Totoro (pictured), Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke and many more wonderful films but they also occasionally make television adverts. They recently created an advert for a company called Nisshin Seifun Group to celebrate the company’s 110th anniversary. The advert was storyboarded by Goro Miyazaki, son [...]
April 8th 2010 is the twentieth anniversary of the Twin Peaks TV series first airing on television and we at HeyUGuys would like to celebrate this with a selection of Twin Peaks posts. Hopefully you are a fan already and if not we will try our hardest to convert you. Also, today sees the release of the [...]
In what is quite possibly one of the most disturbing movie related stories of recent memory, Bloody Disgusting are reporting that MTV are currently in talks to acquire the rights to turn George A. Romero’s classic zombie film Dawn of the Dead into a TV series. This is just wrong on so many levels. Dawn [...]
In the past 3 years the evolution of the television has significantly changed the way we watch films. Manufacturers no longer make the CRT sets, video players and cassette are only found in charity shops and for a true cinema experience, no home is complete without a surround system. The future is HD, flat screen, [...]
