January 11, 2010 – 11:40 pm
3D movies are all the rage right now, mainly because they’re a hell of a lot more difficult to pirate than regular ones. Yep, Hollywood’s money men are running scared, convinced that the death of cinema is upon us. It isn’t of course – where else can you get nachos covered in what can only be described as electric cheese, costing £32 and served to you by a fat, spotty urchin with his finger in his ear? Culinary delights aside however, there is something to be said for staying at home – the main one being you don’t have to put up with the following group of bottom feeders. Yep, we hate them too – it’s the top dickheads you meet at the movies!
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December 9, 2009 – 1:41 pm
What’s your Christmas Party going to be like? Photocopied buttocks courtesy of Dave from Accounts? Or a family affair as Grandad falls asleep and farts constantly for 3 hours while you try to watch Bond?
Or will it involve free Jameson punch, a ‘Grotty Grotto’, sexy elves, DJs, Karaoke and a screening of the best anti-Christmas movie ever – Bad Santa?
Well, it could, if you get down to the Curzon in Soho, London for Midnight Movies Twisted Christmas Party!
The Slashing The Seats staff have been to most of the events that Midnight Movies put on, and we have to say – they kick ass. In a world of streaming movies and Blu-Ray blah, they really make going to the Cinema worth it. So get your asses down.
October 14, 2009 – 12:19 pm
Staggering bleary-eyed into work each morning, hung over from last night’s glittering showbiz party or all night Mario Bava marathon, it’s occasionally easy for STS to forget the more cultured side of cinema. Fortunately the venerable chaps at the BFI are onto us, and have seen fit to plaster the southbank with enormous billboards so that we remember that today is the start of The Times BFI 53rd Film Festival!
Running from October 14th – 29th at a variety of venues across London, the festival offers a unique and fascinating exploration of cinematic history and glimpses of the future, to draw a comprehensive picture of current Cinema at home and abroad.
Highlights this year include Delmer Dave’s hyper intense Jubal, transplanting Othello to the wild west with visually stunning results (and STS fave Ernest Borgnine!), Clive Jeavon’s look into the history of CBGB, the legendary fleapit Rock N’ Roll venue in New York’s Bowery district, and new British Cinema in the shape of The Scouting Book for Boys, a surprisingly funny and accurate look at the perils of growing up set across one lazy English summer.
Further showings will see the White Stripes banging out tunes on the square, visits to Woodstock and New Orleans courtesy of Maria Delgado and Werner Herzog, and a host of other unique visions that demand a spot in your filmgoing calendar.
For tickets and info check out the website here, and get the latest update tweets here.
August 6, 2009 – 11:10 pm
TMZ reports that Director John Hughes passed away today aged 59.
Hughes began his career as an ad exec, before graduating to joke writer for the likes of Rodney Dangerfield and Joan Rivers. He then moved into screenwriting with National Lampoon’s Vacation.
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If you live in London, like movies, like to have a good time and have no plans on the 31st of July, you’d do well to get down to the Curzon on Shaftesbury Avenue for their midnight screenings of two of STS’s favourite films. John Hughes seminal teen movie, Pretty In Pink and David Lynch’s nightmare view of 50s suburbia, Blue Velvet.
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