Stan & Jorgie invade Filmchair

August 20, 2010

Is it just us or are normal movie review videos boring?

Yeah, us too.  Well luckily for you we recently found two absurd characters who claim to be “film professionals” and who fancied having a go at reviewing a classic film for us.

Inspired by our Dude-Drink-a-thon Filmchair is, a-hem, proud to present Stan & Jorgie at the Movies. [Read more]

Michael Douglas – We salute you!

August 18, 2010

His father was a movie star, he is a movie legend. Michael Douglas has lived with the fact that film reels runs through his blood and he has captured audience attention over the decades just as his father did before him. Marrying one of the true Darling Buds of May, Catherine Zeta Jones put the fairy tail icing on the cake, after all his father in law is younger then him. This week the sad news came out that Mr. Douglas has a very serious cancer in his throat, with this we look at what the great man has given to us over the years, Get well soon Michael Douglas.

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Election Melt Down

April 15, 2010

The UK is currently in a frenzy of boring news stories, baby kissing, hand shaking and Party Political Broadcasting all because these muckers with a capital F are vying for our votes. Now it is important that if you live in the UK you get a vote in, doesn’t matter who it is for but make your voice heard. - there will never be another boring statement like that. [Read more]

Top 10 suckiest sequels

March 25, 2010

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]

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

December 2, 2009

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]

Filmchair.com @ The Times BFI London Film Festival 2009

October 29, 2009

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So Filmchair.com have just finished spending time at its first film festival. So what actually happens at these things? Is it just Hollywood parties, boozing, chatting up hot film stars, being cool to be seen? Well it might be but we didn’t get involved with any of that.

So what did we do? Well here is our tale of how we embraced the festival.

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Twitters from the Film Festival

October 29, 2009

Did you know we have a twitter account? well we do, this is just some of the stuff we tweeted from The Times BFI London Film Festival! follow us at www.twitter.com/filmchair.com

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Are off to the 53 London film festival today. First up Michael Caine film Harry Brown

Cup of tea and a muffin in the delgate centre after asking the hot pr girl what I should be doing

Sat down waiting for Harry brown to start after lee took me to the wrong place

Harry brown is one scary film, going to help every old person I see cross the road

Day 2 of our trips to the bfi London film festival. Up early, cold and want more sleep but going to my first real press confrence.

Busy screening for an education let’s hope it’s good

An education was a tough one at this time in the morning. Alright though but I think more of a film for your mums

Not sure on eticate but sat at the press confrence waiting for the crew of an education!got a clooney film to see!

Nick hornby can suck my nut. I waited half an hour and he is running late, no food no booze. Off to see up in the air

Hot pr girl let me down and didn’t tell me to book tickets. Never mind got the last return for up in the air

Well worth the panic. The best film I have seen this year, Micheal Clayton v super bad, not quite but I can not think of another

Sat in on an interview with Robert connelly which has been a highlight and now to see balibo his film

Just rocked a red carpet but not going to the film as I seen it this morning. But still cool

At the european premier of balimo

End of my secound day at the film festival. Been long and rushed. Got a head ach but an education in film. 12 hours and the next film starts

Today is not good. Clive Owen film and confrence but phone dead. Will tweet if possible

just left the Clive Owen film, it was good but another one that my mum would like more then i did, lets see what comes up @ the press conf!

Watching an odd documentry about a town in the US. not sure about it but it’s another big one this eve. Clive owen Conf was really cool

is procrastinating. should be writing stuff before the scouting book for boys but is playing on facebook and looking for the truth! kanye?

got my first question after the show with the stars. Also got the bloke from lock stock but I didnt get him to say horti-fucking-cultalist.

Ross Brothers Interview

October 24, 2009

As part of The Times 51st BFI London Film Festival filmchair.com was able to have its first ever face to face interview with a couple of documentary film makers. During the festival every other afternoon a afternoon tea event is held, The film itself is a reflection of a small town in the United States but it is powerfully funny, tragic, and interesting. To read the review please click here but for the interview please see below.

 

The Directors Bill Ross the 4th and Turner Ross are two brothers from the small town in the USA who made a reflection of time. The two of them combined and made the film together.

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Top 10 Sports Films of All Time

August 30, 2009

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!

May 28, 2009

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]

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