Midweek Mumbling
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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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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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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...
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Midweek Mumble – Missing The Good Stuff?
Midweek Mumble Time – This week Rodney asks the question, How do you decide what to watch? Anybody who writes a blog about film, especially if they’re the soleoperator, will understand the pressures of trying to mai...
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Midweek Mumble – For The Love Of Cinema
Being a Wednesday, let us mumble… This week Rodney assures us he still loves cinema While it might not be apparent thanks to my normally rant-fueled articles every week here at FRC, I actually love cinema. I can’t t...
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Midweek Mumble – Vale Tony Scott
For this week’s mumble, Rodney reflects on the great loss we all have felt by this weeks unexpected passing, Tony Scott. Hard as it is to fathom, but Tony Scott is no longer with us. The British director, who’ll pro...
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Midweek Mumble – Do You Feel Old?
It is Wednesday, and out resident mumbler Rodney is back with another beauty… a question of age Several months ago, my wife gave birth to our second child – a boy – who we named Bastian. It was my choice of name (my wife ...
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Midweek Mumble… Fragmenting a Franchise – The Hobbit 3: Die Hobbitier?
Staff ranter and professional mumbler, Rodney talks this week about The Hobbit and its 3 film deal The past week saw the news filter out of Camp Hobbit that Peter Jackson had struck a deal with Warner Bros and The Powers That B...
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Midweek Mumble – Olympics Overdose, A Movies Lovers View
The LONDON Olympics are in full swing, Rodney is here with a Movie Lovers view on it all If, like me, you’re already sick of the Olympics – and let’s face it, there’s better ways to spend your time than ...
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Midweek Mumble – Reflections on Aurora
A midweek mumble this week from Rodney and from the heart… Normally, I’m not stuck for words. Today, I am. The events of last friday in Colorado have reveberated around the world, and as you’d expect, taken up...
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Midweek Mumble – How To Survive A Celebrity Scandal
As a follow up to last weeks mumble, Rodney is back with some ideas for the Celebs to help them avoid the inevitable scandal before them Celebrities. There’s no escaping their sordid lives and incomprehensible life decisi...
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Midweek Mumble – Celebrapocalypse; when fame fails
Welcome to the midweek Mumble, Rodney is here again to discuss Celebrity Gossip… enjoy Today’s mumble is not quite about movies – it’s about the people who appear in them. In recent weeks and months we&#...
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Midweek Mumble – When Does Art Become Porn?
This weeks mumble, by Rodney, discussed the fine line between porn and art, enjoy… Today, I want to discuss the issue of sex. Specifically, sex in film. No, I’m not talking about pornography, which at the very least...
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Midweek Mumble – What is it about Censorship?
It is that time of the week where we let Rodney out of his cage and onto his soap box, this week he wants to talk CENSORSHIP Among the many topics I like to discuss with folks is the issue of censorship, or more specifically, f...
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Midweek Mumble Takeover – Comedy: The Release Valve
It is Takeover week, and today we have Colin from Nevermind Pop Film with a piece all about Comedy For as long as anyone remembers, entertainment has served as a release valve for moviegoers in troubled times. Charlie Chaplin, ...
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Midweek Mumble – The Prometheus Effect: Does Expectation Kill The Film Experience?
For this weeks mumble, FRC’s favourite ranter, Rodney, looks at whether expectations are killing the film experience By the time you read this, Ridley Scott’s long-awaited, highly anticipated semi-prequel to Alien, ...
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Midweek Mumble – Can We Even Call It a Film Anymore?
In this weeks mumble, FRC’s resident Aussie asks the question, Can we even call it a film anymore? Ladies and Gentlemen, I think we’ve reached a turning point. The evolution of cinema, or the humble “film̶...
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Midweek Mumble – To Double Dip or not to Double Dip
Another week, another rant sorry Mumble from the great Aussie writer, Rodney. This week he asks the question, to double dip or not to double dip. In my life, I’ve owned four copies of Stargate. Not the variety of televisi...
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Midweek Mumble – Film Piracy
Rodney is back for another mumble, this week he is here to talk about a subject close to all our hearts, Film Piracy… I have a grudge to bear, dear film industry. I want to ask you a question. It’s a question the le...
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Midweek Mumble – The Future of Blu-Ray
This weeks mumble is being taken over by FRC’s newest contributor and team player, Rodney Twelftree. Here is view on the future of Blu-Ray We live in a truly remarkable age. The age where just about everything we do has a...
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Midweek Mumble – 20 Things I love about going to the Cinema
After weeks of bashing the cinema and the patrons it entertains for their poor etiquette I felt it time to bring some love back in the room, here are the 20 things I love about going to the Cinema I must admit I have come acros...
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Midweek Mumble – Why is it so hard to have good cinema etiquette? – #5 The Multiplex
This week is the final post on Cinema Etiquette, this week I want to talk about the cinemas themselves instead of the patrons that fill them. We have spent the last month moaning about the other people who seem to frequent our ...
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Midweek Mumble – Why is it so hard to have good Cinema Etiquette? #4 Mobile Phones
Back again for another etiquette rant, Scott want’s to discuss the usage of Mobile phones in cinema. I have been writing these for a few weeks now and it seems that there is one part of basic etiquette within Cinema’s that gets...
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Midweek Mumbling – Why is it so hard to have good Cinema Etiquette #3 Food and Drink
This week we follow-up our previous rants with another look at Cinema Etiquette, Food and Drink. Following the success of the previous rants about Cinema Etiquette, I thought that I would touch on the subject of Food and Drink ...
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Midweek Mumbling – Why is it so hard to have good cinema Etiquette? #2 Choosing a Seat
This week, I follow up Scott’s problems with noise pollution, and take a look at finding your seat. It sounds simple enough, but we all know that with society today it is anything but Let me begin by saying that I am picky and ...
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Midweek Mumbling – Why is it so hard to have good Cinema Etiquette? #1 Noise Pollution
For this weeks mumble, Scott wants to talk about cinema etiquette and question, why is it so hard for some people to be quiet? I want to get this out-of-the-way straight away. I have not ever killed anyone. I am a passive guy, ...
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Midweek Mumble – The Hunger Games Rating Scandal – A Parents view
With the release of the latest TEEN franchise, The Hunger Games in UK, there has come a sea of angry parents over the rating and the violent content of the film. But what is all the fuss about? Scott takes a look. The Hunger Ga...
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Midweek Mumble – Why I Love Cameron Crowe’s Love for Music
For this weeks mumble, Teri talks about something close to her heart, Cameron Crowe’s Love for Music Cameron Crowe’s movies have always been a bit hit and miss for me, but what I rate as my favourites, I rate as some of m...
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Midweek Mumble – Singing the praises of COMMUNITY’s unsung heroes
Tomorrow marks the return of the much-loved US TV Show, Community. To celebrate the homecoming of one of FRC’s most loved TV Shows, Scott looks at his favourite unsung heroes of the show. Wow it has been a very long mid-season ...
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Midweek Mumble – The French Revolution
To celebrate the release of Birdsong on DVD, Tom has taken a look at the recent surge in French actors who have been making waves throughout the film industry. Following in the footsteps of veteran actors such as Gerard Depardi...
