Posts by Andrew Bishop

Leicester Square was teeming with celebrities last night at the very impressive premiere of The Amazing Spider-Man 3D. I’ve never seen Leicester Square that busy before and it certainly was a sight to behold. A giant red spider, lots of webs and fearless free runners greeted us as we walked down the red carpet.

When a director is hired off the back of one movie (500 Days Of Summer) you begin to wonder if he can fill the very big shoes left for him by Sam Raimi. Will he follow the path set for him by the Drag Me To Hell and Evil Dead director or will he follow his own indie love story path? He did, in fact, neither of these. Clearly, Marc Webb wanted to emulate The Dark Knight‘s success by making Spidey slightly darker and grittier, and for me it worked perfectly. This is by no means Spiderman 4, it is definitely a reboot in the most basic sense. Taking Spidey back to high school and re-examining his roots, his powers and the reasoning behind his views on the world. The casting of Andrew Garfield and Emma stone was spot on as their chemistry shone through from the start, and who would of thought Rhys Ifans could play an evil lizard so convincingly?!

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Last Wednesday was similar to how I spend all my Wednesday nights – quick drink then off to see a film with my best mates Jay Z, Nicole Scherzinger and Lewis Hamilton. Well not quite.

I was lucky enough to attend the Men in Black 3 3D Premiere and at last proved that I was no longer cool in anyway shape or form as I shamelessly gasped and pointed at celebrities throughout the opening 10 minutes of the film.

The night started with a quick speech from the very funny Will Smith who amused the audience with a joke about how big his ears would look in 3D closely followed by Nicole Scherzinger walking 2 feet away from me…oh yeah!

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Yet another perk of my DCM job presented itself on Tuesday afternoon with the offer of a free ticket to a screening of the much talked about movie Project X.

Being a massive fan of the work Todd Phillips did on the original Hangover Movie, I had high hopes for a film that from the trailer had me wishing I was 18 again. A few beers in the cinema foyer kindly donated by Warner and I was ready!

After two Warner trailers, the second being The Dark Knight Rises (which by the way, still looks epic even after seeing it for the 100th time), Project X kicked off. Filmed in the much used ‘found footage’ style, you very quickly knew where this film was going; three slightly geeky unpopular-but-likeable, high school students looking to throw a birthday party while the parents were away to gain some cred and cool points…What could go wrong?!

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