Deadville Premiere

Last August a team of dedicated people assembled in Belfast to create something fresh.

Deadville.

The culmination of which arrives on Saturday, 1st May 2010 in the QFT at 6.30pm.

The bar was set high, in order to bring quality production values in script, direction, performance and all technical aspects.

This is a bleak story of apocalyptic proportions, following the release of a deadly virus and it's consequences.

People do whatever they must to survive.

No-one is quite who they seem.

Welcome to our nightmare.

Christopher Columbus and the Book Thief

Yes I know it's Hollywood...and I understand the concept of reduction...

As a film for a family night out, 'Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief' works perfectly well. At times it's funny and the action sequences are entertaining.

The whole thing is of course completely ridiculous...I mean, who believes in Zeus these days...

Greek mythology is pretty fascinating however, though according to the feedback from the ladies in my life, check out your local library first.

Worryingly, the film only has a PG certificate. I'm not advocating it should have had a 15, rather that it should have been made a 15.

The first few minutes of dialogue comes straight out of the bumper book of cliches; 'where's my beer?' etc and is probably the scariest scene in the film.

Recently Pierce Brosnan was interviewed on the BBC. He seemed particularly evasive. I suggest this is because the embarrassment of his 'faxed' performance may have been the cause.

He has now become the new Anthony Hopkins.

Ten films which have moved me, in no particular order...

1. Schindler's List

2. The Elephant Man

3. Being There

4. The English Patient

5. The Shawshank Redemption

6. It's A Wonderful Life

7. Saving Private Ryan

8. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

9. Harold and Maude

10. American History X

What's yours?