Every day, from now until the weekend of the 2014 Academy Awards, HeyUGuys will be publishing an article championing one of the nine films in contention for the coveted Best Picture Oscar. We will be collecting them all here, where you can find the previous articles.
Today Ross Jones-Morris gets to grips with Gravity, the very definition of a film which needs to be seen in cinemas.
Gravity is an unconventional Oscar front-runner for a number of reasons. From the moment that the ascending Dolby-esque tone on the title screen cuts to two minutes of apparent nothingness above the peaceful Earth, you know you’re in for something unconventional, a film of contrasts. Gravity delivers just that, and not always in the best way imaginable.
Over the next one-and-a-half hours Gravity will have its silent moments and its loud ones (non-diegetic nevertheless) and then, you know, more silence. And then guess what – more loudness.
Today Ross Jones-Morris gets to grips with Gravity, the very definition of a film which needs to be seen in cinemas.
Gravity is an unconventional Oscar front-runner for a number of reasons. From the moment that the ascending Dolby-esque tone on the title screen cuts to two minutes of apparent nothingness above the peaceful Earth, you know you’re in for something unconventional, a film of contrasts. Gravity delivers just that, and not always in the best way imaginable.
Over the next one-and-a-half hours Gravity will have its silent moments and its loud ones (non-diegetic nevertheless) and then, you know, more silence. And then guess what – more loudness.
- 2/27/2014
- by Ross Jones-Morris
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Revisiting 18 years of pop culture, from Britpop to the Spice Girls, via Father Ted
1994: Mad fer it!
Issue No 1 Previously a broadsheet section in the newspaper, The Guide was expanded into a magazine proper on 27 August 1994. Nobody bothered to archive a copy, though, so the best we can do is show you a Xeroxed reproduction of the cover. At the time we were concerned with the weird state of science shows on TV and had a wander around the Notting Hill Carnival.
Spotted! All Saints From a review of their single Silver Shadow: "Born in the same year and in the same area of London, what else could these girls do but form a swingbeat group? Their debut is a sickly Atlantic Starr cover with an idiotic number of mixes, encompassing every dance style bar Morris. Eternal may rest easy in their Timberlands." Note: swingbeat was a form of...
1994: Mad fer it!
Issue No 1 Previously a broadsheet section in the newspaper, The Guide was expanded into a magazine proper on 27 August 1994. Nobody bothered to archive a copy, though, so the best we can do is show you a Xeroxed reproduction of the cover. At the time we were concerned with the weird state of science shows on TV and had a wander around the Notting Hill Carnival.
Spotted! All Saints From a review of their single Silver Shadow: "Born in the same year and in the same area of London, what else could these girls do but form a swingbeat group? Their debut is a sickly Atlantic Starr cover with an idiotic number of mixes, encompassing every dance style bar Morris. Eternal may rest easy in their Timberlands." Note: swingbeat was a form of...
- 1/5/2013
- by The Guide
- The Guardian - Film News
Like I said last week, Twilight : Breaking Dawn Part 2 was bound to have such a massive opening box office weekend that it would soar above Skyfall and finally knock Bond back into second place. Wait, no, don’t go and check back, just trust me, that’s definitely what I said. Honestly.
With £15.85 million taken in its opening three days, the latest Twilight has the highest opening gross of any film in the franchise thus far. Bond experienced his sharpest drop off yet, down 47% on its third week takings, but even with the expected gradual decline in the coming weeks, it still looks set to overtake Avatar’s record box-office haul of £94million given that in just four weeks it has already managed to bank a cool £82million.
Twilight movies don’t tend to have the legs of many other blockbusters as the die-hard fan base flock to see it opening weekend,...
With £15.85 million taken in its opening three days, the latest Twilight has the highest opening gross of any film in the franchise thus far. Bond experienced his sharpest drop off yet, down 47% on its third week takings, but even with the expected gradual decline in the coming weeks, it still looks set to overtake Avatar’s record box-office haul of £94million given that in just four weeks it has already managed to bank a cool £82million.
Twilight movies don’t tend to have the legs of many other blockbusters as the die-hard fan base flock to see it opening weekend,...
- 11/23/2012
- by Rob Keeling
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Ladies and gentlemen, dry those tears and cease your fretting, after a few weeks off due to a thoroughly deserved holiday (it was lovely, thanks for asking), the HeyUGuys cinema guide makes its glorious return. I imagine while I’ve been away you have simply left the multiplex well alone for fear of choosing poorly without this wonderous weekly guide to suitably advise you. Or if your twitter feed is anything like mine, everyone has just been at the London Film Festival all day every day instead….seriously, don’t you people have jobs? Luckily, the time is now ripe for you to return to the cinema and take in any of the various fine offerings still playing across the country.
Anyway, a lot of films have come and gone while I’ve been away, so apologies in advance for skirting over everything a little bit. Since last we spoke,...
Anyway, a lot of films have come and gone while I’ve been away, so apologies in advance for skirting over everything a little bit. Since last we spoke,...
- 10/19/2012
- by Rob Keeling
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Continuing it’s “really quite chuffing awesome marketing campaign” –Ross Jones-Morris, HeyUGuys, Warner Bros have now added a new billboard to its roster.
However, it’s not just any billboard. Whilst cinematic second-coming Christopher Nolan has proven thankfully resistant to the questionable charms of 3D film-making the same cannot now be said of the people promoting the highly anticipated final instalment of his Batman trilogy:
Yes, Sunset and La Brea in Hollywood is currently sporting a billboard with a hole in it, accompanied by associated debris and such. That this debris is very artfully designed is probably why it’s gone massively viral in the space of a day. If Prometheus was a case of viral marketing done to death, The Dark Knight Rises is a case of viral marketing done to perfection.
However, it’s not just any billboard. Whilst cinematic second-coming Christopher Nolan has proven thankfully resistant to the questionable charms of 3D film-making the same cannot now be said of the people promoting the highly anticipated final instalment of his Batman trilogy:
Yes, Sunset and La Brea in Hollywood is currently sporting a billboard with a hole in it, accompanied by associated debris and such. That this debris is very artfully designed is probably why it’s gone massively viral in the space of a day. If Prometheus was a case of viral marketing done to death, The Dark Knight Rises is a case of viral marketing done to perfection.
- 6/25/2012
- by Ross Jones-Morris
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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