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4 December 2016
Danni Spooner, Random Acts Midlands filmmaker
From Random Acts Midlands, Danni Spooner's evocative short film, FAG, is a telling development of ideas around gender. She gave us her perspective on the Random Acts program, and what went into making the film. Read our review here
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30 November 2016
The Legend Of Rawry by Michael Baillon | FIRST ACTS
From Random Acts Midlands, Michael Baillon's animated splendour reveals the beautiful mind of an inspiring artist, and the power of autism.
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29 November 2016
Vocal Barriers by Thomas Chimiak | FIRST ACTS
From Random Acts Midlands, Thomas Chimiak's "Vocal Barriers" is a striking visual accompaniment to a spoken-word poem, focusing on technological advances and its impact on the modern day generation.
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28 November 2016
FAG by Danni Spooner | FIRST ACTS
From Random Acts Midlands, Danni Spooner's experimental short film may appear strange, but it is nothing other than a "rebellious reflection on the cis-gendered society we exist in."
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28 November 2016
2001 : A Space Odyssey - Keir Dullea & Gary Lockwood
The massive science fiction hit by director Stanley Kubrick welcomed two of the actors from 1968's '2001 : A Space Odyssey'. Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood took part in a panel at Birmingham MCM Comic Con this month.
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27 November 2016
Star Wars: The Force Awakens film review
A brief film review of The Force Awakens for my silver Arts Award portfolio.
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27 November 2016
The Martian film review
A brief film review of The Martian for my silver arts award portfolio.
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26 November 2016
Contactless by Francis Quigley | FIRST ACTS
From Random Acts Midlands, Francis Quigley's short film 'Contactless' forces us to delve into a seemingly dystopian world we have not yet encountered before.
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25 November 2016
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - 'a bit like X-Men's Xavier Institute'
We had the Twilight Saga. We had The Hunger Games. We even had Divergent and The Maze Runner. Now, to add to the list of YA (young adult) book-to-screen adaptations is (drum roll please)… Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, based on Ransom Riggs' novel of the same title and directed by Tim Burton, who's known for his gothic, dark movies and adds something fresh to the YA market – it can also be seen to be influenced by various other movies, while largely following the original novel.
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24 November 2016
Comic Con: Game Of Thrones Panel
MCM Birmingham Comic Con saw a panel of Ian Beattie, Josef Altin, and Ian McElhinney from Game of Thrones.
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24 November 2016
Comic Con: A J Michalka
A J Michalka has played roles in the duo Aly & AJ as a singer-songwriter, Lainey Lewis in 'The Goldbergs' and voicing Stevonnie in 'Steven Universe'. At Birmingham Comic Con on Sunday, I participated in a panel interview.
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23 November 2016
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
I'm one of those people who has a diary but doesn't have anything interesting except it's full of new film release dates.
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23 November 2016
The Maze Runner: 'simplistic, yet effective'
If there was one film that I considered (and still consider) to be unique in plot and setting, it would be The Maze Runner – a 2014 film based on the young adult (YA) dystopia book of the same name by James Dashner, and another YA film in the long line of book-to-film adaptations. I have found that it is similar to the likes of The Hunger Games and the ending comparable to that of The Divergent Series: Insurgent.
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21 November 2016
What goes on at...RSC's 'The Play's The Thing'
With 2016 marking 400 years since William Shakespeare's death, what happened when Arts Award Activist, Kheira headed to her hometown to review the Royal Shakespeare Company's 'The Play's The Thing' exhibition?
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17 November 2016
BFI Film Academy UK Network Programme 2016
A look into this years Birmingham BFI Film Academy UK Network Programme, hosted by The Company Ltd.
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16 November 2016
Interview with 'Shivaay' star Abigail Eames
Child actor Abigail Eames has graced our screens in Mr Selfridge, Casualty and Doctor Who, and she hasn't even left school yet! We spoke to Abigail, who plays Ajay Devgn's daughter in the new Bollywood thriller 'Shivaay' as she returned home from filming in India.
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15 November 2016
Ride Along 2 - A review by Sami
This is a review of the movie Ride Along 2
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15 November 2016
One Dance by Drake - music video review
A review by Busayomi of the music video by Drake for One Dance