Oscar Predictions: Best Film

The Oscars: Best Film Prediction* Each and every year for as long as I can remember, I have sat up to ungodly hours of the morning watching the Oscar ceremony. I can’t explain what this means to a film reviewer, it’s basically like our Christmas. As you are no doubt aware, Christmas gave you that warm, fuzzy feeling for weeks in advance and a lack of sleep, with a minor development of exhaustion, waiting for Santa. However, also like Christmas, you will eventually realise it is a massive fraud where you have been lied to consistently for years in order to keep you blind to the reality that nothing in this world is pure. You will continue to play along because there is always younger people concerned and you are so desperate to hold on to those nostalgic feelings, you will try convince yourself of anything, including a deer with … There’s more

The Girl With The Men Who Hate Women…

Set in a dark and frosty Sweden, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is a gloomy thriller about a journalist and a young female hacker who delve into the past and uncover a myriad of dark secrets. Directed by Niels Arden Oplev, and based on the novel of the same name by the late Swedish author and journalist Stieg Larsson, this film will be eagerly anticipated by the many Irish fans of Larsson’s “Millennium Trilogy”. Facing prison time for slander, discredited journalist Mikael Blomkvist is hired by a reclusive industrialist for one last job; to solve a long unresolved family disappearance. Aided by the mysterious and troubled computer hacker, Lisbeth Salander, the two uncover a darker world of brutality, deception and ritualistic murder. Alone and not knowing who to trust, they must fight for their own survival and reveal the truth.

FrightFest

So, I haven’t said much about this till now, what with that Zombie out-break and all… But I’m in London this week to catch many a horror film at the annual Empire Cinema run FrightFest. I will be spending a considerable amount of Friday evening and Saturday afternoon/evening watching some of the best upcoming horror films from around the globe. So here’s a preview of my pick of the weekend and I’ll be back with some full reviews next week