We know we have been bad…but we are back.

Well it’s been just over a year since we started filmchair.com and what a year it has been. Recently though you may have noticed that the site has not been updating you with movie reviews, news or as many competitions, for which we are sorry. But things are going to change. [Read more]

Top 10 Sports Films of All Time

I was travelling this week in the car and on BBC Radio 1 they had a poll of the top ten sports films of all time. There was much debate with this subject so I thought the best way to settle it would be to give filmchair.com a side to the story. You may not have heard of some (but I doubt it), you may not like some or agree with the choices below, but here are my top 10. [Read more]

Sex, drugs, rock’n'roll, oh and action!

It has recently been announced that Martin Scorsese is sticking with music for his film-making inspiration, after making the Stones flick Shine a Light, and he is to complete a project to tell the story of the mobster pin up Frank ‘Old Blue Eye’s’ Sinatra, simple called Sinatra.  This got us thinking about music biopics. [Read more]

Top 10 suckiest sequels

I recently watched Hooligans 2 (or Green Street 2 or whatever they’ve called it), and although it’s not the worst movie in the world, it inspired me to do a feature on the worst sequels of all time.  So the criteria is that the original has to be good, popular and successful but the sequel a pile of turd. [Read more]

10 Exciting Comic Book Adaptations Currently In Development

With the recent release of Watchmen we thought we’d have a little look at some other comic book adaptations that are currently in development and have got us very interested. [Read more]

Top 10 TV shows on HBO

We’re on the cusp of creating a TV DVD review section here on Filmchair and as such we thought we ought to do a little feature on the company which has been making the best TV around for the last few years, HBO, the Home Box Office. They produce TV shows which really are the benchmark of quality that all other channels should use to improve everything we watch.

H B O’ my god they are good. [Read more]

10 TV shows from the 80s crying out for the Hollywood treatment

We’re experiencing quite a bit of nostalgia for the 80s at the moment.  We just heard about The A Team movie being back on track and an announcement about a new He-Man movie.  Also, this year sees the release of another Transformers film, G.I.Joe and Dragonball Z (first aired 1989 so just qualifies).  It goes to show that the movie industry is rife with 80s fever so we thought we’d better get involved.

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10 Top Body Counts of 2008

Another year has passed and what a year for deaths in movies, I’m not talking about the tragic ones where the little boy gets stung by a bee, or the inspirational trainer dies sadly, I am talking about the body exploding, heads getting cut off, people being eaten terminations which you talk about as soon as the film ends. [Read more]

10 British films to look out for in 2009

Whilst everyone is looking forward to the big blockbusters of next year already, we thought we’d have a look at 10 British Films that we think could be real big next year.

 

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10 Films for the Credit Crunch

It looks like pretty much the whole world is going to fall into a recession soon, and as every time you open a paper you can’t avoid seeing something on the credit crunch, it got me thinking about some hugely successful movies which were made on a shoestring budget.  So here’s a list of 10 cracking films all made on what would be considered a low budget.  [Read more]

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