Category Archives: Movies

Posted on November 27, 2014 by admin

Bah humbug. It’s almost December, and you know what that means? A whole month before we’re finally free of all those tinselly decorations, piped-in music – or ‘torture’ – you’ve been forced to listen to every year since birth, and …

Posted on October 17, 2014 by admin

We love TV, whether it’s a sit-com that showcases the best of the British – like The Office – or the latest must-watch TV from across the pond. In our previous instalment, we looked at some of the best movie-to-TV …

Posted on October 14, 2014 by admin

These days it can often be difficult to think of a movie that isn’t a remake of a popular classic or based on a book. However, here we’ll take a quick look at some classic films that actually started out …

Posted on September 23, 2014 by admin

With the second series of Birmingham-based historical gangster show Peaky Blinders in the pipeline, the BBC have been asking why that Brummie accent is so tricky to mimic. Although star Cillian Murphy has received praise for attempting to master the …

Posted on September 22, 2014 by admin

Plenty of TV shows have made the transition to the big-screen – and generally they’re pretty bad. After all, it’s hard to expand a 25 minute storyline into a 90 minute hit. Just look at the largely forgettable Simpsons Movie …

Posted on September 8, 2014 by admin

As they get more and more famous, many television actors often migrate to movies. But it’s only relatively recently that film stars have realised that TV has come a long way since the days of wobbly sets and stilted acting. …