Cannes Film Festival Day 2

Unfortunately only got to see one film at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival on Thursday and that was Mike Leigh's Mr Turner. Here is my review:

Cannes Review: Mr Turner

I did also get to attend the press conference with for Mr Turner with director Mike Leigh and star Timothy Spall. Also there was a photo call thing for How to Train Your Dragon 2 with stars Jay Baruchel, America Ferrara, Djimon Hounsou and Jeffrey Katzenberg which I  managed to get involved in an exciting media scrum for.

It's been a very slow start for me at the festival but on Friday I am seeing 5 films including Captives, Wild Tales and documentary Red Army so things are looking up!

Mr Turner director of photography Dick Pope

media surround the HTTYD2 stars

How to Train Your Dragon 2 stars

Jay Baruchel and America Ferrara

View from the press terrace

Media zone

Godzilla 2014 Review

Hi everybody,

Please check out my review of Godzilla starring Bryan Cranston, Ken Watanabe, Aaron Taylor Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen and a bloody great monster (or two or three!) over at Filmoria now.

I also got to meet and question some of the stars on the red carpet at the premiere so check out the full red carpet report, plus pictures at Filmoria.

24: Live Another Day Weekly Episode Reviews Writer Needed

In my role as editor of the TV section at Filmoria, I am looking for someone to write weekly episode reviews of 24: Live Another Day as it airs on UK TV.

You get paid according to the performance of your articles at Filmoria so this is one of those rare gigs where you might actually be able to scape together a few pennies for your hard work. I'm not promising wealth, riches or an early retirement but we do get some money depending on how well our articles perform.

Reviews should be around the 6-700 word mark each week and writers will be required to upload them to the site with pictures but it's all pretty straightforward. You can also contribute to the TV news and features section in order to earn more and drive more traffic to the site!

If you are interested in this opportunity, then please drop me an email at peter@filmoria.co.uk

Check out our current TV reviews here.

The day I met new Star Wars star John Boyega

After the announcement that John Boyega is going to be a central character in Star Wars: Episode VII, it has taken me a whole day to realise/remember that I met Boyega at an Attack the Block screening and Q&A back in 2011. I chatted to him outside the screening and got some photos and I even remember saying to him and Alex Esmail that they were going to be big, big stars after this film. Obviously I had no idea how big Boyega is about to get!

I couldn't believe Attack the Block was not a massive hit so I'm pleased that at least Boyega is now going to be a mega-star in one of the biggest films of all time! Check out my pics:

Boyega on stage left

Boyega takes pics of his cast mates

Boyega and cast mates

Edgar Wright was also there!

Wish I'd had the guts to get a photo with him!

My mate Diane Jessie Miller is Gifted

I worked on an independent feature film called One by One a while back and now the writer/director Diane Jessie Miller has gone on to write and direct a web series called The Gifted.

Her talent and commitment continue to astound me. Check out the video below:



Then watch the behind the scenes footage:

Still talking films every week on Amazing Radio

You can check out the recordings of all my weekly round ups of the latest movies over at the Amazing Radio Buffer's Guide page.

In the latest one I talked about Transcendence, The Other Woman and Tracks and you can listen to the whole thing below:

Bad Neighbours De Niro Party

I'm going to be seeing this film called Bad Neighbours just for Dave Franco's impersonation of Robert De Niro in Meet the Parents. I hope this is a good solid hour of the film but I reckon that might be optimistic. You violated the circle of trust Focker! Check out his little Jinxy. That looks like the best party in the world.

If this picture alone doesn't have you sniggering then check out the trailer. It's got a baby dressed as Heisenberg and eating 'blue meth', not to mention an unfortunate incident with a condom. Seth Rogen fans also might enjoy the stoner getting smacked around by misplaced airbags. The brilliant Rose Byrne is also in it so even if you can't stand Zac Efron, there must be something attractive about this film.

Call for TV news and reviews writers! Get Paid to Write!

Hello again! As the new TV Editor at Filmoria, I am looking to expand our team of dedicated TV writers. What we need is people who want to cover news and weekly episode reviews of some of the biggest shows on television as they hit screens in the UK. We already have writers covering episode reviews for Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead and Bates Motel but we always need more people to cover the latest news and to write features on all of these shows and more. Here is the full list of shows we need covering in terms of news, features and episode reviews:

Doctor Who

Hannibal

Downton Abbey

Homeland

Sherlock

True Detective

House of Cards

24: Live Another Day

Sleepy Hollow

Girls

Veep

Arrow

Vikings

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Sons of Anarchy

The Following

The Americans

American Horror Story

Boardwalk Empire

Elementary

Mad Men

From Dusk til Dawn

Person of Interest

Hemlock Grove

Fargo

Da Vinci’s Demons

Penny Dreadful

Under the Dome

Peaky Blinders

Broadchurch

The Good Wife

Parks and Recreation

Scandal

Gotham

Surely one of these must spark your interest. Did I mention that you will also get paid to write at Filmoria? There is a performance pay scheme that basically works out like this:

You will earn £0.05 per article that you write and publish for every 100 unique page visits, within the first 30 days of being published, with no upper limit threshold.    

• 1000 unique page views = £0.50
• 10,000 unique page views = £5.00
• 100,000 unique page views = £50.00
• 100,000,000 unique page views = £500.00

It might not be much at the moment but as the site grows, we hope to see our page views and income rise. The more you write and the more our audience reads it, the more you earn! News stories should be around 400 words and features and reviews around 700 words.

If you are interested, please contact me on peter@filmoria.co.uk and send me a few links to your published work. Feel free to check out Filmoria and see what you think!

Here's a selection of some of the stuff we've been writing recently:

7 Reasons Why You Should Be Watching ‘Bates Motel’

8 Reasons Why You Should Be Watching ‘Game of Thrones’

‘The Walking Dead’ Season 4, Episode 16 review – ‘A’

‘Game of Thrones’ Season 4 – Profile of King’s Landing

‘True Detective’ Season 1, Episode 6 Review – ‘Haunted Houses’

‘Fargo’ TV Series Premieres Trailers

‘American Horror Story’ Fourth Season Has A Name

‘Gotham’: First picture of Sean Pertwee as Alfred released

Netflix Pulls In Big Names For New Series

1 Million Views at Yahoo and the new Filmoria Podcast

OK that wasn't a long hiatus but had to share that my writing at Yahoo just passed the 1 million page view mark. I'd love it if it were this blog that had made it to a million views but it's still brilliant to know that lots of people are checking out my stuff somewhere.

In other completely unrelated news, I am part of a small team who are contributing to a new Filmoria podcast tonight. Not sure when the final thing will be published exactly but I'll be sure to post it here when it is.

I also might be going to a press conference with Arnold Schwarzenegger in attendance on Monday so that's something to shout about!

TV Editor at Filmoria

I've been given the very exciting position of becoming the TV editor at Filmoria. It's my first time taking an editorial position and I will be doing my best to get the team to contribute as much in the way of TV news, reviews and features as I can.

Sadly, it also means that I will probably be letting I Love That Film gather a bit of dust for the foreseeable future. I'm still going to use this blog to share other things I'm working on but I suspect that posts are going to become few and far between.

I'm pleased to say that after however many years of writing here, I finally managed to get loads of useful tabs on that menu at the top. So if people do visit this blog, then they can find stuff really easily. I'll still be adding links to reviews, Yahoo articles and Filmoria articles so I guess I Love That Film is still my base on the internet.

If anyone does read this, then thank you for stopping by and if you've been with me since I started or ever read, shared or commented on anything on this blog then an even bigger thank you! Until next time, please check out the TV section at Filmoria for all the latest news, reviews and features.

I'm sure this isn't the end. Just a temporary hiatus. See you on the other side.