The London Film Festival 2009

The official website has been unveiled. The Guardian takes a look at the line up whilst the official website can be found here.

Save your pennies time is nearly over, yay!

Where the Wild Things Are (2009)

Sorry to keep yapping on about it, I just got out of seeing Harry Potter 5 and there was a teaser trailer for WTWTA and it got me all excited again. Above is short feature. I keep popping into HMV at Piccadilly Circus just to read the book over and over again. To reiterate, I can't wait.

Released in the UK on 11th December.

That is all.

District 9: Cineworld Shaftesbury - Wed 09/11 @ 18:40

Hey all,

Plenty of heads-up with this one (6 days in advance!) because it’s such a no-brainer. I think you’ve all seen the trailer for District 9 by now from previous screenings. It’s comes out on Friday, the final blockbuster weekend of 2009, and it seems we’re going out with a bang.

Already hailed as a masterpiece by pretty much everyone who’s seen it and currently placed at #44 of the Top 250 films ever made on IMDB. That’s 10 behind Citizen Cane (ha!), 11 in front of The Shining (WTF!?!?!?) and probably the one to finally push Harold and Maude out of the top 250 altogether (grrrrr!).

Basic plot (no spoilers):

“An extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth suddenly finds a kindred spirit in a government agent that is exposed to their biotechnology”

And it doesn’t even have subtitles (except for the extraterrestrials of course).

Facebook is also on the bandwagon, although in a more controversial way than positive way. A new group has been created (“District 9 Hates Nigerians”) describing the film as xenophobic against Nigerians. So come along on Wednesday and maybe join the group on Thursday.

4 star in Empire, 89% at Rotten Tomatoes, 100% by the “snobs” of Rotten Tomatoes AND the sequel has already been green lit. Ker-ching!

Tickets are cheap if you’ve got a Orange buddy with a code, same meet and greet as per usual, outside HMV Picadilly Circus. Film is scheduled for 18:40. Being reasonably late (19:00 max) is cool as long as you send someone (i.e. me) to pick up ur tickets (not hotdogs) before hand cos it’s gonna be busy.

Tweet me if you fancy coming. Cheers.

Doof