I love old movies. Most people in and around the film industry do. There’s something magical about black and white cinema, and otherworldly, even, about silents. It’s perhaps no surprise, then, that Hugo and The Artist, two recent films that celebrate vintage movie-making, have won so many Oscar nominations, scoring 11 and 10 respectively. While there’s much to appreciate in Hugo, it’s frankly ludicrous, bordering on grotesque even, that’s it’s the most nominated film of the year. And much as I loved The Artist, come on, isn’t it just the teeniest bit gimmicky? Is it truly deserving of this much praise and honour? Or it all just nostalgia?
It’s been a while since I served up a Trek-themed Tellyscape. Several months, I reckon. Which means it’s time for another. Specifically, a quiz designed to sort the cadets from the captains. A collection of 40 fiendish questions to test the mettle of all you Trekkies out there. To give everyone a chance, I’ve made it multiple choice, but don’t count your tribbles ‘til they’ve hatched: This Question of Trek, as I like to call it, is still ten times tougher than a Klingon with a bat’leth. Good luck to you then, and may you live long and prosper!
Week in, week out, we here at blockbuster.co.uk endeavour to deliver the best and brightest movies, and the biggest choice as well. To that end, we’re proud to bring you regular exclusives that you won’t find anywhere else but right here. Not at LOVEFiLM, or anywhere else. To celebrate the release this week of two awesome new exclusives, lads’ drama Warrior and teen thriller Abduction, here’s a special Top Ten of recent, current and impending exclusive titles.
It’s Hollywood Christmas yet again – that time of the year where the Hollywood elite hand out golden awards to each other to reward their fellow actors, actresses, directors and other workers for the great job they’re doing (I’m sure you have a similar thing at your office). It’s the Oscars, or as we’ve been asked to refer to them by the Academy - ‘The 84th Annual Academy Awards’. And without further ado, here are the nominees:
Just a quick update, we should have some more for you next month. From today, if you’re an online subscriber at Blockbuster, we have made Top Ticket on all of our online rental plans.
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There’s lots to see and do this week at blockbuster.co.uk, great offers and competitions, fresh blogs and videos, plus, of course, some brilliant new movies to buy and rent, among them a pair of hot new exclusives that you won’t find anywhere but here: action drama Warrior, with Inception’s Tom Hardy and The Thing’s Joel Edgerton, and Abduction, starring teen titan Taylor ‘Twilight’ Lautner. Whatever you fancy though, whatever you’re looking for, as long as it’s quality telly time you’re after, you’ve come to the right place!
It’s often said that those who can, do, and those who can’t, criticise. This may be true, to some extent, except often those who do, actually can’t, or at least shouldn’t, and sometimes those who can, and do well, need those who can’t, or won’t, to spread the word. The point being… Welcome to Cinemascape!
It came as no great surprise, not to me nor any other Brit-based Trekkie I hope, that after the more obvious, Latin choices were considered and rejected, Benedict Cumberbatch was ultimately cast as Khan in J.J. Abrams’ second Star Trek movie, currently in production. Besides being an uncommonly good actor, a go-to rising star of quality whose recent credits include current blockbuster.co.uk exclusive Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Spielberg’s latest, War Horse, Cumberbatch’s signature role as TV’s definitive Sherlock Holmes proves, beyond a shadow of doubt, that if you’re looking for someone to play a genetically superior, über-arrogant superbeing, Benedict’s your man.
Life’s complicated enough for a teenager without a vampire moving in to the house next door and eyeing up your mum, feeding on your friends and deciding you’d be better off dead, but that’s life for Charley Brewster (Star Trek’sAnton Yelchin) in Fright Night, a spirited remake of the Eighties bite-fest from director Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl). Co-starring Colin Farrell as Jerry, Charley’s nasty neighbour, and David ‘Doc Who’ Tennant as a hammy Vegas magician drawn into the conflict, Fright Night is freaky, jumpy, blood-fuelled fun, available now to rent on Blu-ray and DVD, in store and online, exclusively from blockbuster.co.uk.
No matter what you’re in the mood for this week, be it fang-fuelled frights, rude, romantic laughs, gun-blazing thrills or taut, political shenanigans, we’ve got everything you could possibly want to see, and way more besides, right here, right now, at blockbuster.co.uk. This week alone we’re thrilled to be able to offer you two incredible exclusives that you won’t find anywhere else: Fright Night and Friends With Benefits. Plus there’s lots of offers and competitions, blogs, features, games and videos. So come, dig in – it’s a feast of fun!
It’s Hollywood Christmas yet again – that time of the year where the Hollywood elite hand out golden awards to each other to reward their fellow actors, actresses, directors and other workers for the great job they’re doing (I’m sure you have a similar thing at your office). It’s the Oscars, or as we’ve been asked to refer to them by the Academy - ‘The 84th Annual Academy Awards’. And without further ado, here are the nominees:
k update, we should have some more for you next month. From today, if you’re an online subscriber at Blockbuster, we have made Top Ticket on all of our online rental plans.
