In a galaxy far, far away... Star Wars was out in force at Disney's D23 expo this weekend, putting on quite a show and making some big announcements. While JJ Abrams and Harrison Ford took to the stage to promote Episode VII and revealing a brand new poster for the film, Disney's focus was definitely … Continue reading Weekly Round Up! – 19th August 2015
Apologies for not posting the past few weeks, I am helping out on the media team for the Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford and just haven't had the time. So in the spirit of aviation here is a story that grabbed my attention a few weeks ago. And We Have Lift Off... It has been confirmed that … Continue reading I Feel the Need, the Need for Speed…again!
Yesterday the BBC Trust decided to ratify the decision to make BBC Three an online channel only. This is despite the open letter from 750 on and off screen stars protesting the move, as mentioned in a previous post, not to mention the public petition that has been signed by nearly 300,000 people. According to the … Continue reading Save BBC Three! – Update
Here We Go Again... Before we go any further, let me make it clear that I am not against remakes in general, in some cases they are actually better than the originals and I am all for opening a film up to new audiences. Having said that, however, there are some films that you just … Continue reading The Weekly Round Up! – 30th June 2015
R.I.P James Horner The Oscar-winning composer died in a plane crash on the 22nd June. His scores lifted already great films to another level, with the score for Titanic, in particular, capturing the audience's hearts, becoming the best-selling orchestral film soundtrack of all time. As well Titanic he composed the scores for Braveheart, The Boy in the Striped … Continue reading The Weekly Round Up – 23rd June 2015
So I have a plan that every week I will do a bit of a round up of the big Film and TV stories from the past 7 days, as well as highlighting some the smaller stuff that grabbed my attention. My aim is to post The Weekly Round Up every Tuesday if I can (I know … Continue reading The Weekly Round Up!
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