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Thursday List – Best poker films from the past
Poker has been increasing in popularity for years now, becoming a game of choice by many famous sports stars and well known actors, including Ben Affleck, Boris Becker and Rafael Nadal. In its online form, the game is played by...
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Tech Tuesday – The Best of CES
Recently us Techie types were treated tot he holy grail in Tech Exhibitions – CES 2013. From the 7th to the 10th January all the big wigs of the Tech world were showing their new technologies for the upcoming year. Full t...
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Weekend Round Up – What no SNOW? Pitch Perfect Review
This weekend in UK we were all waiting for Winter to finally arrive. OK it has been cold, but also blooming wet. You should see the field in which I take the dog for her walks, we are talking Swamp Land not Farm Land. But this ...
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FRC Feature – The 85th Oscar Nominations
I am not usually one to jump on the OSCAR bandwagon. So many other websites do a great job at listing and covering the event. But, this year after the nominations were announced I felt necessary to voice an opinion about the bi...
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Top Eleven Leonardo DiCaprio Performances
Django Unchained is set to hit UK cinemas in a matter of days, and to celebrate its release Tom has taken a look at Leonardo DiCaprio’s finest performances in what has been an impressive career to date. This was quite pos...
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Tech Tuesday – Ted’s List of Great Blu-rays, BAD films
As a film fanatic and tech geek, I tend to be an early adaptor. So when Blu-ray became available to the public back in 2006, I jumped on board right away. I bought my first Blu-ray player back in the summer of 2006, a piece of ...
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FRC Is Back!!!
Well this feels weird. I haven’t put pen to paper or fingers to keyboard for well over a month now and it is an odd sensation to start again. But here I am. I expect you are wondering what happened. Why did FRC go from 10-15 po...
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From The Bottom Shelf – The Phantom of The Opera (2004)
From The Bottom Shelf: Revisiting old DVD’s I find on the bottom shelf of my collection, and trying to work out if they deserve your time, or not. If you asked any random person in the street to name at least 5 stage musi...
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Getting people into genres – Horror
As an avid film fan, nothing pleases me more than introducing friends and family to a lesser known film that becomes their new favourite, and I am sure that most of our readers share this same simple pleasure. However, there ar...
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Tech Tuesday – The Best Way To Watch A Film At Home – TIPS
As most of you know I love to watch a film at home. It is the reason I started this website back in January 2011. I wanted to celebrate how good it can be to have a good cost-effective set up at home. I wanted to advise people ...
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Getting People Into Genres – Sci-fi
As an avid film fan, nothing pleases me more than introducing friends and family to a lesser known film that becomes their new favourite, and I am sure that most of our readers share this same simple pleasure. However, there ar...
Blu-Ray
Weekend Round-Up – Southern Comfort (1981) Review
Southern Comfort could have taken the ball from Deliverance and re written it in a fresh and original take. Instead it falls back to a text book survival thriller about a group of soldiers that could hardly make it through Basi...
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IN DEFENSE OF… KEIRA KNIGHTLEY
As an avid film fanatic, I talk about the world of movies a lot – with friends, with colleagues, with other obsessives like myself, and oftentimes the conversation turns to two strong opinions: loves and hates. Which acto...
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Weekend Round-Up – Men In Black 3D Blu-ray Review
MIB3 is a great film for those willing to enjoy the visual side of a blockbuster, and let be able to make some leaps of faith along the way.
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From The Bottom Shelf – Hulk (2003)
Ang Lee's often plodding film version of the Hulk is still worthwhile, even if it drags through a cripplingly slow first act; the visual effects make up for many shortcomings, but not often enough with anywhere near the intensi...
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FRC Halloween Poll – Which Movie Monster Would You Prefer To Be Turned Into?
Halloween is here people!! While I am not going to be indulging in a Horror Marathon anytime soon, as I am way too chicken for that. I am feeling in the Spirit this year. Thanks mainly to my kids and their love of trick or trea...
Tech
Tech Tuesday Xbox SmartGlass for Android
Xbox SmartGlass is a nice step forward for Microsoft, jumping on a growing bandwagon - Let us hope developers get stuck into providing us with content.
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FRC Feature – Top Bond Parodies
This weekend in the UK we saw the release of the latest instalment of the BOND franchise, Skyfall. While yours truly is not a massive fan of 007, there is no denying the weight and power of this monster machine. It took over mo...
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From the Bottom Shelf – DVD Review of The Musketeer (2001)
Destroying a classic story in a single film, The Musketeer is an absolute mess, barely coherent and certainly with minimal redeemping features other than it's sumptuous use of location filming. Avoid this where possible.
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The Walking Dead Special: Post Apocalyptic and Virus Outbreak Films
With The Walking Dead going from strength to strength in its third season here in the UK, Tom decided to help those fans of the show who are too impatient to wait for their weekly fix of the post-apocalyptic nightmare by sugges...
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Weekend Round-Up – Welcoming the new crop of TV Shows
Autumn is fully underway and this means we have a new batch of TV Shows all fighting for our attention, here are Scott’s thoughts on the few he has taken for a test run. Firstly I would like to apologize for this post being a d...
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Midweek Mumble – Are You A Mid-Movie Pauser?
Midweek Mumble? Why not. Rodney is back asking if it is OK to pause a movie Okay, don’t tell my wife I’ve said this, but there’s nothing worse than sitting down after the kids are in bed to watch a film, and g...
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Tech Tuesday – One For All Wireless TV Sender SV1730 Review
Not as Interference free as the marketing makes out, but still a cheap and easy to set up solution to get your TV in an alternative room
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FRC FEATURE – Welcome to the new look
One thing is for sure, Scott is never happy with the website. Hopefully this will be the last theme change for a while…. Welcome. Thanks for popping in and taking a look. It hasn’t been that long since I changed the theme...
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Tech Tuesday – A New Way to View Satellite TV
Freesat in the UK are set to launch a new service called FREETIME but what is it all about? Scott takes a look Over the last few years UK has been going through the digital switch over. Meaning that the old way we could watch T...
Blu-Ray Reviews
Looking Back – The Wild Geese and Who Dares Wins
Next week sees the Blu-ray release of two classic British War flicks, Scott takes a look at these two gems. In stores from Monday 8th October from Arrow Video, Wild Geese and Who Dares Wins are rolling onto Blu-ray in a big way...
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Midweek Mumble – Are there too many films?
Rodney is back in the mumble chair, this week he asks are we overloaded with film in this modern age? I want to pose a question to the readers of Front Room Cinema today. It might seem a bit counter-intuitive to ask, considerin...
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Thursday List – Top 10 Oliver Stone Films
SAVAGES hits UK Cinemas this week and to honor its release we look at the work of the director, Oliver Stone. There is one thing you can say about Oliver Stone, he is not dull. No matter what you think about this Hollywood Heav...
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Weekend Round-Up – The Problem With Preordering and The French Connection Review
Monday morning is here and it is time for a weekend round-up… Well that went quick didn’t it? The weekend I mean. I am sure when I was a boy the days went a lot slower and it would always feel like a mini holiday ev...
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Midweek Mumble – Does our marketing need more marketing?
This week Rodney takes a look / rant at the latest trend in Cinema… Trailers of trailers…. Okay, I’m now officially pissed off. This past week saw a tidbit of a trailer for Steven Spielberg’s upcoming fi...
