Hallo Chaps!

Welcome to our blogs. On the left sidebar you’ll see a bunch of ‘em – from Ben and Chris writing about their film-making lives and film-making in general, through our resident film genius Adam who will answer any question you may have about movies, via the Underground Book Review which reviews books as read over the shoulder of someone on the tube and the Poetry Page where the world generously sends us their haikus and heartfelt rhymes…

But we don’t stop there – plenty of the Charlie family have their own blogs these days, as can be seen via the blogs under the ‘Family Blogs’ header… And under that we’ve thrown in a bunch of great blogs all about movies too…

ASK ADAM – BEN’S BLOG – CHRIS’ BLOG – POETRY PAGE – UNDERGROUND BOOK REVIEW

Our Latest Posts...

One Month To Go.

The G-Tech “Driven Creativity” competition closes on the 30th September so get your entries finished soon in order to stand a chance of winning a 4 terabyte raid array. That’s four hundred quid’s worth of storage… Here’s someone else’s entry. Et Miaow Alors from Adrian Westbrook on Vimeo. Better than that? Enter here… http://www.g-technology.eu/competition/

Snap, Crackle and Rock.

Video: Rolling Stones Rice Krispies advert. Hallo. It’s been a while. Been rather busy. Just saw this over on http://michaelbstark.blogspot.com/. Bizarre. Brilliantly. Speak soon. Bye now. No, you hang up. No. You.

Abertoir.

I’m not much of a fan of horror but Iove the welsh and am a huge fan of awful puns so I thought I’d bring to your eyes this trailer for the Aberystwyth Horror Festival – Abertoir. or if you’re a local…

UnderWire Festival Launches to Recognise Female Filmmakers

The UnderWire Festival aims to showcase the raw cinematic talents of women with four days of screenings and events in London from 18th – 21st November 2010. With a particular focus on filmmakers at the beginning of their careers, the festival will bring attention to the work of women, who are still massively underrepresented in [...]

Are DSLRs Here To Stay?

The backlash has started! For everyone grinding their teeth over the over exuberance surrounding DSLRs (for the ungeeks these are digital stills cameras that shoot HD video which have in many quarters been hailed as the future of low budget filmmaking) here’s something that should bring a smile… In today’s Filmmaker’s bulletin the expertly knowledgable [...]

This Summer’s Cheapest Movies…

The odd thing about the internet is people still treat it as if reverses normal logic, rather than magnifying it. This was one of the key problems behind the dotcom boom and, like radiation lingering long after the blast, echoes of this emotion are still with us today. That’s why I warned you at the [...]

How Short Is The Future?

Whilst pontificating about the purchase and viewing of moving pictures using the internet my scope has been general. However a few of the responses I’ve had suggest that some have seen my comments squarely aimed at short films, rather than features, music videos or any of the other myriad categories used to subdivide the rainbow [...]

Some Last Thoughts On Online Distribution

The tireless observer will have noticed that over the past month or so I’ve been exploring some of the new online platforms that allow you to charge for your work. Most especially I’ve been dealing with the three outlets that my brother and I use, MiShorts, the Dynamo player and iTunes. But now that we [...]

Rebel With A Revolution

Not only does is make sense to watch a classic film, but what better way to do it whilst sitting in a disused petrol station and with a Blaine Brothers’ film to precede it? This Friday (20th August) a derelict petrol station on Clerkenwell Road, near Farringdon, will transform into a cinema and become The [...]