Cornerhouse: Staff Review/ Iron Sky

"In 1945 Nazis sent a secret mission to the Dark Side of the moon. Surviving the fall of the Third Reich, they constructed a base – in the shape of a Swastika, obviously - away from the gaze of their Allied enemies and waited…

In 2018 there is a woman in the White House, one that looks and acts suspiciously like former Republican Vice President nominee Sarah Palin, and she needs to be re-elected. So what’s the best way to achieve this? Put a black man on the moon of course, because that will look good, right? But when the astronaut wanders too close to the Moon fortress, it grants the Nazi army the impetus to begin their return to Earth."

Cornerhouse: Staff Review/ Iron Sky

Published 29/05/2012

P:NM - FILM FEATURE: ODEON Flashbacks 16/04/12 – Clerks

"Dante Hicks not supposed to do a lot of things: he’s not supposed to be working at his minimum-wage job as the local convenience store clerk today, he’s not supposed to play hockey on the roof, he’s not supposed to close the store at 4 o’clock on a Saturday, he’s not supposed to let anyone use the restroom and he’s definitely not supposed to be trying to convince his ex Caitlin not to marry an Asian design major behind his girlfriend Veronica’s back."

P:NM - FILM FEATURE: ODEON Flashbacks 16/04/12 – Clerks

Published 23/04/2012

P:NM - FILM FEATURE: ODEON Flashbacks 09/04/12 – The Matrix

"Thomas Anderson, a disillusioned computer-hacker who goes by the online name of Neo, is contacted by the mysterious Morpheus and offered an escape from his mundane, end of the 20th Century life. What seems like a simple invite into a counter-culture rebellion becomes something much more epic when the world around him is revealed to be an elaborate computer generation in a post-apocalyptic future were machines rule and humans are used as batteries."

P:NM - FILM FEATURE: ODEON Flashbacks 09/04/12 – The Matrix

Published 13/04/2012

Cornerhouse - Tech tools worth exploring

"The session was presented by Martyn Bryant of The Next Web. His easy style and friendly manner removed any fears of a complicated and formal lecture type event. His recommendations, a mix of websites and apps, were influenced by his own method of remote working and covered the general goal of using web technology as an aid to working and creating in the 21st Century. The ‘free upgrade’ bonus to the session was his industry insights into things like Pinterest skimming sales from links to using Convo to arrange article and news updates with reporters around the world."

Cornerhouse - Tech tools worth exploring

Published 30/03/2012

Cornerhouse: Staff Review/ Juan de los muertos

"Juan, the 40-year-old self styled survivor, is star of Cuba’s first zombie comedy. His laid-back existence of scrounging, stealing and womanising is threatened when his fellow citizens start to come back from the dead. The government’s explanation is that they are US funded trying to cause civil unrest but Juan knows better; here is an opportunity to make a little money. So like a Cuban version of Del Boy he gathers a little band of locals and starts offering his services to those affected by the dissidents. But when things go bad to worse will he be able to stay in his beloved Havana or be forced to escape to Miami?"

Cornerhouse: Staff Review/ Juan de los muertos
Published 08/03/2012

Cornerhouse - Ace Animation: Part Two

"Maybe you’ve been to watch both of the previous programmes in this year’s British Animation Awards Public Choice screenings and are researching for the third? Well here’s a final convincer to brave the unpredictable Manchester weather and head down to Cornerhouse today for the final installment of this diverse animation programme.

Really three things stood out for me in this final screening: birds, dark colours and the dark, adult themes."

Cornerhouse - Ace Animation: Part Two

Published 07/02/2012

Cornerhouse - Ace Animation Anyone?

"On Wednesday night I watched four comedies, three features and five musicals here at Cornerhouse. There was even time to fit in a couple of interesting adverts.

No, I didn’t invent time-travel machine nor did I lock myself in for a monster, 24-hour movie marathon. What I did do was watch the first of the British Animation Awards Public Choice screenings, a collection of animated short films that are part of this year’s competition."

Cornerhouse - Ace Animation Anyone?

Published 03/02/2012