by Georgia Thompson

My first I’m With Geek team outing took me to a dark bar on a side street just off Brick Lane, where a few of the other film girls and I perched precariously on wooden tables to the side of a plethora of mis-matched furniture. We had come to watch a variety of shorts from Shorts on Tap, and the room was packed and excited to see what the evening’s various directors had in store for us.

by Jo Johnstone

Woody Allen has had one of the longest and most successful careers in film. Beginning as a stand-up comedian and continuing as an actor, writer and of course a director. His films have crossed generations, genres and time periods. He has even clashed the modern world with that of the past in his greatest feat Midnight In Paris. For his latest work Allen transports audiences back again to the 1920's and stays there with the beautiful Magic In The Moonlight.

by Sean Narborough 

It is official; Deadpool is getting his own movie.

Set for February 12th 2016, Marvel Entertainment and 20th Century Fox have announced that one of Marvel Comic’s most popular characters will be getting his own movie. But this isn’t the first time we’ve heard about it. A Deadpool movie has been stuck in development hell for years and we’ve all seen the incredible test footage of Deadpool a few months ago (if you haven’t, I highly recommend it). But who is Deadpool? Some people might have been introduced to the character in X-Men Origins: Wolverine and well… the less said about that, the better. If Fox and Marvel are planning on doing the character justice, then there a few things needed to make this work. Deadpool should be the darker side of the Marvel universe and what I mean by that is that he should rude, definitely have a mouth on him, have his guns and swords, have his full body suit and needs to break the fourth wall (when a character speaks directly to the audience). He is a very distinctive and different character from anyone else in the Marvel comics and that has made him one of the most popular heroes in Marvel’s history.

Not much is known of the film at the moment. We know that Tim Miller will be making his feature film directorial debut with Deadpool. Miller is best known as the visual effects creative supervisor for Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and we all know how great that looked. Zombieland writers Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese have written the script and Ryan Reynolds could be coming back to reprise his role as Wade Wilson. Personally I would have preferred to have Nolan North as Deadpool, but I understand their reasoning of having a big star attached to the film. If Fox and Marvel do this properly and give the “Merc with a Mouth” the justice he deserves, Deadpool could be a great film and a real surprise hit.

by Cookie N Screen

Today is one of solemn gravitas, no matter which way you look at it. If Scotland departs Great Britain to become an independent nation, thriving on its entire culture, than it marks the disintegration of a union. If they decided to stay, it still underlines a need to change our viewpoint and come together stronger. Either way, politics will never be the same or as one of our writers stated “children will be moaning when they have to write yet another article about the subject.” So, to celebrate Scotland and everything that it has given us cinema-wise (including some of our team), we’re looking at the best Scottish movies.

Honourable Mention: Local Hero because we have celebrated it here and Brave because, though set in Scotland, is an American production. 

By Liam McMillen

Welcome to my column, Colour Me (Dis)Interested (Ha! Isn't it clever?), where I will look at a black-and-white film a week that was filmed in the colour era.

This week, I will be looking at Martin Scorsese's gritty, boxing drama, Raging Bull, which won two Oscars.

 by Hayley Charlesworth 

Reading Vito Russo’s influential The Celluloid Closet, along with the accompanying documentary of the same name, is an eye-opener. While Russo’s analysis of LGBT representation in cinema only dates to the 1980s, what it reveals is that films with LGBT themes, essentially, don’t end well.

Look back on some of the biggest LGBT hits of the past three decades. The two films that really hit the mainstream were Brokeback Mountain and Philadelphia. While both excellent films with fine scripting, direction and performances, Philadelphia is the story of a man (Tom Hanks) dying of AIDS, while Brokeback Mountain ends with a brutal, homophobic murder. These are stories that need to be told, but unfortunately, for the majority of cinema’s history it has been the only story told, unless the character in question is merely a side character in someone else’s story played off for comic relief.

Check out the brand new posters for The Imitation Game, Interstellar and Fury!as well as the first character poster from The Battle of Five Armies! 

by Liam McMillen 

Anthony Baxter is most famous for being a thorn in Donald Trump's side with You've Been Trumped and the same applies with his follow-on, A Dangerous Game. The game here is the superficially benign pursuit of golf. In You've Been Trumped he exposed American leisure-industry tycoon Donald Trump’s plans to build a golf resort on an ecologically endangered section of the Scottish coastline, and this film literally revisits that territory.