Friday April 30th 2010
A couple of days ago we ran a competition offering you the chance to win 1 of 5 pairs of tickets to a special screening of A Nightmare on Elm Street.
For an average competition we get a couple of hundred entries.
For competitions that require a bit of extra effort like this one (we needed a photo of you dressed as an impromptu Freddy Krueger) that number comes down to about 30-40.
We got one entry.
So congratulations Tom Butler, who just won TEN FUCKING TICKETS for the frankly shit entry you see to the left.
I hope you’ve all learnt your lesson.
Thursday April 29th 2010
It seems like a lifetime since the first mentions of Chris Morris’ terrorism satire Four Lions started to pop up online. Back then it was being proposed as a TV series, and was supposedly rejected by the BBC and Channel 4 as being ‘unsuitable for prime-time audiences’. Two years and a good chunk of Film4 funding later, Four Lions has arrived, and with the exception of the obligatory (and amazingly spoiler-filled) Daily Mail report, the controversy has been pretty minimal.
It’s quite easy to see why when so much of the film’s humour comes from fairly simple juxtapositions of the very serious and the very trivial. A car full of soon-to-be-Jihadis racing along the motorway singing ‘Dancing in the Moonlight’ by Toploader is definitely funny, but it’s not exactly cutting egde satire. There’s nothing necessarily wrong with this (it doesn’t have a duty to be satire) but it does feel like a bit of a missed opportunity.
That said, fuck that, because Four Lions is hilarious. And it’s nice to see Riz Ahmed doing something decent for a change.
“FOUR LIONS = EASY TO LIKE, DIFFICULT TO LOVE”
- Ultra Culture
Finally:
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Thursday April 29th 2010
I’m going to see the remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street tonight and I’m still very excited about it. Thanks to Warner Bros, you too could see the film at a ‘special’ screening… although not quite as special because it’s on May 6th which is only one day before the film comes out.
Still, we’ve got FIVE (count em) pairs of tickets to give away and this is how you get them:
Head on over to our Facebook page and post a photo of yourself dressed as an impromptu Freddy Krueger. We’ll pick the five most ingenious entries and each gets a pair of tickets to the screening, which is May 6th (presumably in the evening) in Leicester Square.
You’ve only got today to enter so get a move on. Winners announced tomorrow morning.
Entrants must be 18 or over. I’m serious, kids.
Wednesday April 28th 2010
Here are the facts as they stand:
Marvel are so excited about The Avengers that they’ve decided to make a 2-hour advert for it, pass it off as a film and charge admission.
Movie Blogs are happy to grant free advertising to them by posting stories about each and every fucking ‘Marvel Universe’ character they insert into the movie where ‘plot’ and ‘development’ should be.
Movie Magazines are willing to give them the benefit of the doubt because there’s so much invested in their success.
Comic Book Fans appreciate the films because they are faithful to their source material and feature lots of familiar characters.
Everyone Else has no clue who the fuck ‘Nick Fury’ is or why we should be excited when half an hour of an already-dull movie is suddenly and inexplicably dedicated to him and his bizarre ‘SHIELD’.
Fuck Marvel.
Wednesday April 28th 2010
HOLY FUCK!
It’s exactly one week until our special Ultra Culture Cinema screening of Werner Herzog’s Bad Lieutenant! It’s our first event so you really should come in case it all goes so badly that we never do another one.
In anticipation, we’ve got 3 pairs of tickets (THAT’S SIX TOTAL!) for the night to give away, so jam your details in here and cross your fingers:
Competition ended.
The winners will be announced on Saturday morning. Entrants must be 18 or over.
For more details, point your eyes towards this web location: ultraculture.co.uk/cinema
