Man of Steel Trailer.

Hey folks,
I'll be posting quite a few new trailers tomorrow but I wanted to share this one with you right away, because, well, it's simply stunning.




- Research Monkey

Seven Psychopaths Competition

Hey Folks,
It's time for the first ever BSR Movie Show Competition (insert fanfare here). We've got some goodies from the recently released 'Seven Psychopaths' up for grabs.

Check out the film here: http://www.facebook.com/SevenPsychopaths

The Prizes
Two Lucky winners will receive the following:

Two Seven Psychopaths T-shirts (one of each design, size medium)
A deck of Seven Psychopaths branded playing cards
Two Seven Psychopaths badges (one of each design)

Psychotic Swag!!!!

 (Prizes courtesy of the kind folks at Momentum Pictures (an Alliance Films company).)


The Competition
Hard one this, should take you all of seven (heh, see what we did there) minutes on the web.

OK, to win the above prizes all you need to do is name seven films with seven in the title.

Acceptable uses of the number seven are: Seven, 7, Seventh and 7th
Simple huh?

How to Enter
Simply email your list of films to us at:
studio@bradleystokeradio.org.uk

Remember to include 'bsr movie show seven competition' as your subject title so it gets sent to the right folder. Also remember to include your name.

Closing date for the competition is 16th December 2012.

Basic Terms and Conditions
Competition is available to UK residents only.
Entrants must be 18 years of age or over.
One entry per person.
Entrants must not work for or be associated with Bradley Stoke Radio.
Any entries received after the closing date will not be considered.
Winners will be selected randomly from all correct entrants.
Winners will be contacted by email to arrange delivery of the prizes and will also be announced during the next show on the 20th December.

Full terms and conditions available on request.

Fourteenth Show (or Let The Movie Show Be Your Fantasy)

Hey Folks,
Fourteenth show goes out live tonight 6th Dec at 20:00 GMT.

Obviously the big release this time around is The Hobbit: An unexpected journey, so to tie in this evenings show will be drawing it's tunes from fantasy movies.
We've had to cast the net a bit wide on this one, from classical Fantasy (such as Wizard of Oz) to modern set Fantasy (Pan's Labyrinth, Donnie Darko) just to get enough music. Even so we'll be trying something a bit different tonight in that half the tunes will be taken from film scores as opposed to just songs. Mainly we've gone for this as many Fantasy films have iconic theme tunes and we're sure hearing them again will bring a fond smile to your face.

Also tonight we'll be introducing the first ever BSR Movie Show competition, in which you'll be able to win promotional goodies from the recently released Seven Psychopaths. Full details for the competition will be posted here on the blog later today.

We'll as usual be diving into the murky waters of current and upcoming cinema releases, while no doubt becoming ludicrously sidetracked at the drop of a hat (a hat you say? Well yes the Monkey does indeed wear a hat in the studio, a hunting cap to be precise, in the vain hope of bringing a more gentlemanly air to proceedings). The other Monkey, the one of the Victorian persuasion, is back with more cult classics, this time with a touch of Chinese magic (well American Chinese, but hey...).

So lots to look forward to, tune in via the 'BSR Listen Live' link to the left and don't forget to get in touch either during or after the show.
Enjoy.

- Research Monkey

Thirteenth Show (or the Movie Show Is Made In Britain)

Hey Folks,
Lucky show thirteen goes out live tonight 22nd Nov at 20:00 GMT.

As you can no doubt deduce by the post title this evenings show will have tunes pulled from British movies (yay for patriotism. Or something).  So expect our usual excellent taste and diversity (and most likely some truly awful aural experiences as well, anyone remember Shampoo?).

Same show format as always, info on upcoming and current releases, news, idiot banter and Victorian Monkeys look at a Cult Classic. This time he's gone for one of the quintessential movies about British-ness.

Tune in through the BSR listen live link to the left and we hope you enjoy the show.

- Research Monkey  (currently feeling as poorly as a lab monkey so won't be doing much talking tonight)

Trailers, Trailers, Trailers

Hey Folks,
It's trailer time again!

First off a bit of Arnie in The Last Stand. Kim Jee-woon's English language debut, he's one hell of a director so I'm optimistic about this one.



Next up is Jeymes Samuels' western They Die By Dawn, a 30min indie short. It looks mighty impressive.



Thirdly we have the teaser for Alan Moore's Jimmy's End. Looks interesting and is the first in a proposed series of shorts from the grouchy God.



Up for a bit of nastiness then check out Elijah Wood in Franck Khalfoun's remake of Maniac. Absolutely NSFW.



Want even more brutality, this is British special effects genius Paul Hyett's directorial debut, The Seasoning House.



And finally the incomparable Wong Kar Wai's The Grandmasters. Film of the year? Just might well be.



Enjoy and let us know which ones you're looking forward to.

Cheers to the fine folks over at twitchfilm.com for the original uploads.

- Research Monkey

Updates, Apologies and Greg Christie's Fear and Loathing

Hey Folks,
First off you may have noticed the disturbing lack of updates on the blog lately, this is due mainly to my internet access only working sporadically over the last few weeks. My first thoughts were that it was my router playing up and after numerous back and fourths between myself and the so called customer service department of my ISP, I finally convinced them to send a replacement. Lo and behold after setting it up yesterday, no more problems.
So apologies on the lack of content lately and I'll be doing my utmost in the coming weeks to make up for it.

So onto the second item; Last show we mentioned that Greg Christie from twitchfilm.com had contacted us to let us know he had a new series of Fear and Loathing articles about to start over at Twitch, and I was supposed to have had a link up for you folks after the show, obviously due to the previously mentioned connectivity issues this never happened, so without further ado here's the link to the first part:

http://twitchfilm.com/2012/10/fear-loathing-the-2012-philadelphia-film-festival-part-i-boozie-movies-returns-and-goes-to-hell-lite.html

To my mind Greg's the best film related journalist/writer/satirist around at the moment and if you've read his work before then you'll know why. If you're new to his stuff then I'll say only that you're in for a treat and a maybe a bit of "what the hell did I just read?".
The man really should be writing modern noir novels (hell for all I know he already is) as his work kinda puts me in mind of Charlie Huston and believe me that's high praise.
Anyways check out the link and let us know what you think. Enjoy.

- Research Monkey

Twelfth Show (or The Movie Show Learns To Read)

Hey Folks,
Twelfth show broadcasts live tonight 8th Nov at 20:00 GMT.

For tonight's musical theme we were looking at going all vampy to tie-in with the new Twilight (can't believe I just wrote Twilight, quick, must find my med's) but seeing as we did a horror themed show last time for Halloween, we decided instead to go for novel adaptions (yes we know categorizing Twilight as a real novel is pushing it a bit).

We've chosen a fairly wide range of adaptions, a few of which you might be surprised to learn were actually books at all.

As always we'll keep you up to date with the latest local releases etc. and ol' Victorian Monkey will be back with another Cult Classic and yep he's gone for a Vamp Movie adaption, one which the current fang loving audience might not be aware of. It's a good one.

Tune in through the BSR Listen Live link to the left and we hope you enjoy.

- Research Monkey  (off for a bit of a lie down after having to write the T word so many times)