Elyisum is a 2013 sci-fi action thriller starring Matt Damon, which represented the first feature film by director Neill Blomkamp since the 2009 District 9. Set in a dystopian future, where the Earth has become so polluted that the richest of the planet took to a new home, the gigantic space station – Elysium. With conditions similar to Earth, the
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David Brent, former star of early 2000’s fictional reality TV show The Office, is back. He’s back, again in the form of Ricky Gervais and he is going on tour. The 2016 film David Brent : Life on the Road is written, directed by and starring Ricky Gervais based on the comedy character that launched his career. The film centres
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We’re back off to the Lego Universe now for the review of the Lego Batman film that is currently out in the cinema. The second Lego film to have come out after 2014’s The Lego Movie, Chris McKay (who was an animation director on the 2014 film) now takes on his full directorial debut. The screenplay is by a number
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Well we’ve made it to the end of this year’s alphabet challenge, and also seemingly close to the end of humanity with Zombieland. Directed by Ruben Fleischer and written by the pair of Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, the film is set after a zombie disease has wiped out the majority of mankind leaving only a few humans alive and
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One of the biggest Mel Brooks comedy films is the ‘Y’ letter of the Alphabet challenge with the 1974 Young Frankenstein. The film, directed by Brooks with Gene Wilder in the lead role was actually co-written by the pair in their 3rd collaboration (having already made the 1968 The Producers, and Blazing Saddles which also came out in 1974). The
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For X in the Alphabet Challenge, we turn to the Netflix produced 2016 XOXO, directed by Christopher Louie with a story that he created, with a screenplay by Dylan Meyer. The film centres on a music festival in the US, at which Ethan (Graham Phillips) a young DJ has been offered a chance to pay a set. As he makes
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Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the 1st Annual presentation of the Geeky’s – the prizes awarded by us at FilmGeeky for the top achievements in cinema over the last twelve months. Firstly I hope you enjoyed the reshow entertainment – and our thanks again to Mark Hammil for his Frank Sinatra medley – it was quite something and very unexpected.
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For W – It’s the turn of the cult classic action thriller from 1979 ‘The Warriors’. The film, directed by Walter Hill (The Driver, Another 48 Hours, Red Heat) is based on the book of the same name by Sol Yurick, with a screenplay by David Shaber (Nighthawks, Flight of the Intruder). The film centres around a gang based in Coney
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The second film by Alfred Hitchcock in the Alphabet Challenge is for V and ‘Vertigo’ from 1958. One of the four films that James Stewart would make with Hitchock, and only two that were not overtly a more theatre setting, Vertigo is a dark pyschological thriller. Stewart plays John “Scottie” Ferguson a police detective in San Francisco, who has retired following
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Unbroken, the wartime drama story of the harrowing experience of Louis Zamperini at the hands of the Japanese during the second World War, is the film for U in the Alphabet challenge this year. The film is directed by Angelina Jolie with a screenplay partly written by the Coen Brothers. Zamperini, a talented runner pre war who had participated in
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