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Projection Room: The Awards Season 2019

For this year’s awards season coverage, we decided to do all of it through the other YouTube series we do called What The Hell Happened- filmed and…

First Take: Wild Rose- a star is literally born, Scottish style

SYNOPSIS: A musician from Glasgow dreams of becoming a Nashville star. One of the things that’s given me the most joy over the last year has been some…

First Take: The Lego Movie 2- so many hours spent building...

SYNOPSIS: It’s been five years since everything was awesome and the citizens are facing a huge new threat: Lego Duplo invaders from outer space, wrec…

Projection Room: Secrets of a Haunting- The Pre-Production

For the last few months, I’ve been very kindly invited along to join the pre-production meetings for UCLan’s second year Film Production students, to…

First Take: 50 Shades of Grey- the one where the rants began

Originally consigned to the vaults of TheJackSmit.com, to celebrate the most sentimental time of year… is one of the most brutal rants ever recorded …

First Take: Stan and Ollie- give me some good slapstick comedy anyday

SYNOPSIS: Laurel and Hardy, the world’s most famous comedy duo, attempt to reignite their film careers as they embark on what becomes their swan song…

First Take: Bird Box- 70 million people can’t be wrong about a film, right?

SYNOPSIS: Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a mother and her two children make a desperate bid to reach …

First Take: Green Book- the underdog in the 2019 Oscar race

SYNOPSIS: A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s …