Happy March, chums!
This month it’s the ¡VIVA! festival.
Our writer Patrick Fowler is at the ¡Viva! 18th Spanish and Latin American Film Festival at the Cornerhouse in Manchester. The fiesta started today and is going on until the 21st March. One of the highlights is ARRUGAS (WRINKLES), a funny and sad animation set in a care home.
This month it’s Vegfest in Brighton.
It’s a free event at the Hove Centre. It’s even more popular than ever, thanks to all those people who got het up because they might have accidentally eaten horse, and have gone off flesh in general. As well as films there’s cookery, comedy, celebrities, and vegetables of course. We’re hoping to have one of our Brighton writers report back soon.
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This month we have a new writer.
I love her, and not just because her name sounds a bit like a Bart Simpson prank call. Amanda Randall came to the rescue when we heard almost-too-late about an amazing event at Ely Cathedral: a screening of THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME, which she reviewed here. I hadn’t even heard about Ely Film Society – I think they tend to hide their light under a bushel. Well, Ely Film Society, I have my beady eye on you now! Regular screenings take place in the Kempen Room at The Maltings, on the banks of the River Ouse, at 7.30pm. Films may be preceded by a short film by an independent filmmaker, and screenings are accompanied by programme notes about the film, the directors and the cast, and members are encouraged to stay behind to discuss the film. Doesn’t that sound brilliant? Amanda Randall just started her own film blog, PenPaperAction!.
This month I watched TONY: LONDON SERIAL KILLER.
It was on my Lovefilm list. It’s like HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER – lite (I’ve watched around a billion films about serial killers, and HENRY and SNOWTOWN are the only two that have deeply upset me). The Tony character must have been partly inspired by Dennis Nilsen, but there are elements of other trutv classics – “truth is stranger than fiction” elements that make a story feel real. It’s not bringing anything new to the ranks – not something I’d go back to as often as I do ED GEIN – but if you watch the shorts included as DVD extras you can see there’s something unique about director Gerard Johnson and his cousin Peter Ferdinando (who plays Tony). We’ll let you know what they get up to.
This month we’re starting a new Twitter trend.
Look out for our three word reviews. Some of them only have one or two words in. They’ll be really funny and clever, and you can all join in!
This month we were sexually harassed.
We got a common or garden request for adspace from someone who signed off with “chive on”. According to urbandictionary.com this young Nathan Barley squit is asking to see Take One’s boobies. Presumably with “partyp*ker” written on them in biro. Just no.
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