UK CINEMAS TO SHUT THEIR DOORS FROM TOMORROW (18th March 2020)

With Covid-19 escalating daily, our social life is one of the major logistical casualties. Gigs, theatres, pub, restaurants and cinemas have all been asked to close, voluntary at the moment but it will no doubt become mandatory very soon. Travelling is also hit and even spending time with our family and friends has also been…

STAR TREK BEYOND TEASER TRAILER #1

As this is the sequel to two of J.J.Abrams Star Trek movies, as well as one which he is producing and given the fact this is the most prominent trailer promised to run before Star Wars: Episode VII: The Force Awakens from Thursday, this Star Trek news has every right to break into nEoFILM's none stop…

A QUOTE FROM GEORGE LUCAS…

"People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or an exercise of power are barbarians." George Lucas speaking against the colourisation of films back in 1988. One year later, the Library of Congress requested an original negative of Star Wars (1977) for preservation but he would refuse to provide…

6 WEEKS, 60 YEARS OF MOVIES…

Due to a long running illness, I have been forced to take a few weeks off work, resulting in a lot of free time, time which I have put to good use... Well, I think so anyway. So from the 19th October up until today, I have been in need of something to do with…

WIDESCREEN WEEKEND 2015 @ BRADFORD ~ REVIEW

A young man made his way through the crowd which had assembled outside the single Pictureville screen, the only Cinerama screen left in the England, carrying a large 35mm spool, giving us a taste of what we where in for that night. The film which was about to be presented was an original three-strip Cinerama…

WHERE’S MY HOVER-BOARD?

Today is the 21st October 2015, the day that Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) and Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) arrived in "The future" in the 1989 sequel, Back To The Future Part II. And my main question is, where is my hover board? So much of the films quirky predictions have kind of come to pass,…

THE JURASSIC WORLD BLU-RAY 3D RIP OFF

Clearly not satisfied with releasing one of the top grossing movies of 2015, Universal want more, a lot more from their loyal customers. I, like many who pre-ordered the Jurassic World 3D Blu-ray, assuming wrongly, that like almost every other 3D Blu-ray release, that it would include the 2D Blu-ray version as well. Well, it…

WHERE’S LUKE? ~ STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS TRAILER #3

Well, it is now less than two months until Star Wars Franchise returns to the big screen for the second time since 1977. Not including various re-releases of course. Not since 1999 when the ill-fated Prequel Trilogy premièred has the universal excitement for a single film been so palpable. After 38 years the Star Wars phenomenon is…

FILM OF THE MONTH ~ SEPTEMBER 2015

The FOTM for September is none other than Val Guest's British sci-fi classic, The Day The Earth Caught Fire (1961). This was covered in detail this month with a week dedicated to reviews from the latest BFI Blu-ray edition, which also included three nuclear themed documentaries from 1950's/60's. This ran here on nEoFILM between 14th -…

CINEMA-SCOPE @ 62

This is the one that stuck! Just a few days shy of a year after the release of the phenomenally successful This Is Cinerama at the end of September 1952, The Robe (1953) ushered in the simpler and more palatable widescreen format, Cinema-scope and one which quickly evolved to become one of the industry standards. Even…