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Honeymoon films

LasVegas.jpgWell we're on honeymoon in California, San Francisco at the moment, but we still have time to think about a feature.

While we were planning our wedding we were thinking what to name the tables, and we decided on films related to marriage, and in particular our marriage. One we chose was Honeymoon in Vegas, because that is where our honeymoon is ending, but what other honeymoon films are there?

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April 10, 2008

Uwe Boll killing his own career

UweBoll.jpgUwe Boll is in effect killing any chance he has of a career, and he's doing it without the aide of an online petition. You see to be someone successful you need to be liked to some degree and your work enjoyed, you even need to win over critics and become friends with key people in the industry. It's just like any job in any business.

However Uwe Boll is not doing that. He's verbally attacking people who are critical about his films, he's physically fighting actual critics in the ring, and above all he's attacking other people in the film business, people who are hugely above his station and can be rather effective in killing his career.

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March 20, 2008

Filmstalker Hotdog Awards nominations

Hotdog-small.gifThe Filmstalker Hotdog Awards 2008 are entering the nominations stages...finally. Now that a few regulars have voted for the categories that they would like to see in the Filmstalker Hotdog Awards 2008, they are being opened up for voting, and it's pretty easy to have your say.

We're in the nominations stages, that means that you get to decide the nominations, and they could be any person or film that matches the category and represents a film that was released in your country in 2007.

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March 9, 2008

Filmstalker's 2nd birthday!

Fireworks.jpgFilmstalker is two years old today, can you believe it? I can't, it actually feels much longer, especially considering the size that the site has grown to.

So what's happened in the last year and what do you think of Filmstalker now it's two years old, and what's in line for the site in the coming year?

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February 24, 2008

Filmstalker Hotdog Awards categories

Hotdog-small.gifWe've not tried a awards list here on Filmstalker yet, and with every site doing them and the awards I worked hard on for the last site I was at being unceremoniously dropped, I thought it about time we kicked ours off.

So introducing the Filmstalker Hotdog Awards. Awards that will be solely created and voted by you, the reader and the audience.

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February 3, 2008

The best death scenes

BodyDouble-Drill.jpgI was chatting with Louise (friend, reader and helper on Filmstalker) and we started discussing the best character deaths in film. Now I can't remember why we went on the topic, just that we ended up there and as soon as she mentioned it my mind was off and racing.

There are some superb character death scenes and immediately we picked out one each, and before long we had a list. However I'm going to keep this to a few and leave the comments for your memories of the best on screen deaths and why.

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January 23, 2008

Is being a celebrity good for you?

CelebrityMagazines.jpgIs being an actor good for you, indeed, is stardom good for you, and not just your health either, but is it good for your life and those around it? Friends, family and close relationships?

With the passing of Heath Ledger who was undoubtedly going to reach much greater things in his career, and all the news of celebrates heading off the rails, I began to wonder, is acting and fame good for you?

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January 18, 2008

Misleading marketing of movies

SweenyTodd.jpgI thought this might be a perfect time to discuss the marketing of films, how you feel about pre-film hype and if you've ever been duped by the marketing of a film into believing it was something else...like good.

There are two films just recently that have brothered me in regards their marketing, that's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and Cloverfield.

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January 9, 2008

Films to stalk in 2008: Part three

Fireworks.jpgNow the third and final in the series where I've been looking at the upcoming films of 2008. We've already had a look at the films that have release dates for 2008, as well as the list of films due for release in 2008 without a date as yet, well this final feature is looking at those films left over in IMDB for 2008 that are highly unlikely to get made this year.

Of course you have to remember that these dates may be simply left over from the last time the IMDB page was updated, or perhaps they were just in there as a date filler, who knows. Whatever the reason they were marked in for 2008 and it really looks like there's not a chance.

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January 3, 2008

Films to stalk in 2008: Part two

Fireworks.jpgSo you've already read the list of films that Filmstalker recommends that have concrete UK release dates, but what about those that don't have definite release dates? Well you'd be surprised at just how many of those there are, and I've hand picked them all out for you here.

You'll remember that part one of the Films to stalk in 2008 featured a fair list of films, well this brings you even more. The third and final article will look through the films that IMDB list as due for release in 2008 but there's little chance of us seeing them.

All in all, this is the most complete review you'll see of 2008, out of these lists what are making yours?

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Films to stalk in 2008: Part one

Well here we are at 2008, the year has just flown by. In the first of three articles I'm going to take you through the films for 2008. Not all of them, but the better ones. This first article lists the releases that currently have a UK release date. The...

The worst films of Xmas

While we just talked about the genre defining films of Christmas, or Xmas if you prefer, there's another side to films at this time of year that is utterly horrible and terrifying, the bad Christmas film. While there are plenty of classic and rightly superb films at this time of...

Genre Defining: Christmas

Call them holidays, Christmas, Xmas, whatever, the season is upon us and that means a run of seasonally inclined films. From Santa to sleigh bells, and loving one another, the Christmas films are here. So I thought before we enter the big Christmas feature we'd explore the films that really...

Films diluted by their sequels

The morning after a games night is usually devoid of anything interesting due to hangovers and sleep deprivation, however this time my friend Dave came up with a rather interesting point of discussion. What films have been diluted by their sequels, and conversely, what films haven't been affected by their...

Genre Defining: Political/Conspiracy Thriller

I was wondering what category I was going to tackle next and while chatting at work I thought thrillers, but then the thriller genre is really quite wide, and then it hit me. The big thing just now is the political thriller. So this feature will cover the political thriller,...

Genre defining: Sport

This really should have been last week as there was a mountain of sport to be had, Rugby World Cup and Formula 1 World Championships being the most prominent, but that weekend of sport made me think of the next topic for our Genre Defining series at Filmstalker, Sports. So...

De Palma's Redacted real war images censored

Brian De Palma has been very vocal about his film Redacted and how censorship has hit the film, and once again he's been speaking out about the controversial photographs that have been edited from the film by the studio for fear of legal recourse. De Palma isn't happy at that...

Women in Hollywood - Are we the problem?

While actresses over forty complain that Hollywood don't want them any more, black actresses who feel they can speak out still talk of racism, and allegations abound that Warner Brothers doesn't want any more films with female leads, it's beginning to look like there's a big problem in Hollywood. Are...

Genre defining: Western

Welcome to the start of a new series of features which we'll step in and out of called "Genre Defining" where we'll explore what we think are the definitive films for whichever genre we're discussing. In other words if I say “westerns”, what comes to mind first and why. Of...

The cars of The Fast and the Furious 4

The Fast and the Furious 4 has been confirmed with a 2009 release date and Justin Lin as Director, anything else you may have heard is rumour and speculation, but the film is definitely going into pre-production and will hopefully be filmed pre strike. So with it definitely going ahead...

Affleck's Gone Baby Gone delayed over kidnapping?

Ben Affleck is apparently considering whether or not to release his film Gone Baby Gone in the UK because of the real life case of the missing, presumed kidnapped, child Madeleine McCann. Madeleine McCann's parents claim that she was kidnapped from their holiday home while they were having dinner with...

The best food scenes in film

Following on from the feature last week about films that relate to food, I'm going to try another food feature this time it's going to be the best film scenes involving food. It seems that everyone was itching to get into this in the last feature, so let's just start...

Food in Films

I can't remember why but I was thinking about food in films, possibly because I was cramming a pizza in my mouth at the time, but I started to think, just how many films are there with food in them? As I started coming up with film titles I realised...

Television series as films

Can television series make good films even after they've had their run on television? Are the two mediums compatible? Is television actually running ahead of the cinema and producing higher quality content that doesn't need a film adaptation? These are the questions that started spinning around my head when I...

The best Scottish Films?

I've just had a great holiday up in the Highlands of Scotland, admiring the wonderful scenery, eating great local food, and drinking some of the best whiskies in the world. So rather than return to a serious feature I thought it would be fun to find out how many Scottish...
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