What follows is a brief history of Ultra Culture.

Ultra Culture was born on 14th February 2008. Since then it has been a podcast, a youth culture website, a pop culture website and finally a movie blog. You can have a look at it in its very first incarnation here.

Ultra Culture owes its success (’success’) to PR wizards like Luke Windsor and Bridie Woodward, journalists-cum-geniuses like Peter Robinson and great pals like The Dillon Family and Tash O’Byrne, who took this photo of Ian McKellan when we went to the Baftas in 2008.

Ultra Culture claims to be the UK’s greatest movie blog but that’s not really based on anything. Apart from the fact that it’s obviously true.

Microsoft gave us an XBOX 360 once and Warner Brothers gave us some mints. We went to the premiere of Righteous Kill but didn’t talk to anyone. We interviewed a Hungarian director by the pool at the Haymarket Hotel but the fountain was so loud that the dictaphone recording was unintelligible. We went to a film festival one time.

We don’t really like the name any more (it doesn’t make any sense for a movie blog) but we’re sort of stuck with it now. You know, ‘Branding’ etc.

What you won’t find in our reviews are plot synopses, cast lists or technical details. That’s what IMDb is for.