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FRC Feature – Grimm Screenings

Our good friends over at Grimmfest have recently announced their lineup for the first part of 2013 and boy is it a belter! As usual the team will be bringing a mixture of horror classics and previews of new releases to Manchest...
 
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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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Star Trek Into Darkness IMAX Preview

Those of you who ventured out to watch The Hobbit in IMAX cinemas over Christmas may have been treated to a very impressive preview of JJ Abrams follow-up to 2009′s success story Star Trek; Star Trek Into the Darkness, wh...

 
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Sussex, Brighton, Royal Pavilion
Sussex, Brighton, Royal Pavilion

FRC Feature – Singing the praises of Cinecity

We are only a week away from Cinecity 2012 and to say I am excited is an understatement. Spending the best part of 3 weeks inside a darkened cinema taking in the  best in film that 2012 has to offer sounds like a hard job, but ...
 
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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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FRC Feature – Cinecity 2012 Schedule is released

Today is the first day of November, a month which has a few great things happening – My Birthday, Bonfire Night and of course the brilliant Cinecity Festival. This year it is back for its 10th edition and is set to be the...

 
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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...
 
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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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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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Grimm up North – Halloween Season

October is in full swing so it is time for SCARY movies, Tom takes a look at GRIMM’s Halloween Season Manchester’s premier cult and horror film festival Grimmfest is sadly over for this year (and what a festival it ...
 
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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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FRC Feature – GRIMMFEST – The Round-Up Part 1

Manchester’s premier Horror film festival Grimmfest came to a gruesome conclusion last night, here are Tom’s thoughts on more of the films he saw: Nightbreed: The Cabal Cut It has taken over twenty years for Nightbr...

 
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FRC Feature – Grimmfest Preview

With the opening Gala of Grimmfest just days away, Tom takes a look at the festival lineup to see which films should not be missed. Once again Grimmfest is shaping up to be an excellent horror festival, and with a variety of cu...
 
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Small Roles…. Big Performances Blogathon

Friend of FRC Ruth from Flixchatter has organized her very own Blogathon, what sort of friend would I be not to get involved..? Blogathons seem to always pass me by, I often kick myself for missing the deadline or simply forget...
 
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FRC Feature – London Film Festival Preview

In a couple of weeks the 56th London Film Festival will open to the public, FRC’s Teri will be there, here are her picks for what to see! First off, the top five essentials… ANTIVIRAL This is the directoral debut of...

 
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FRC Feature – GRIMMFEST 2012

Manchester’s finest horror and cult film festival is coming up in a few weeks time and FRC are delighted to announce that we will be there! In the run up to this year’s annual Grimm festival, Front Room Cinema have ...
 
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FRC Feature – Cool DREDD Fan-made Artwork

With DREDD being one of my favourite films this september, I felt it necessary to have a go at making a poster for the film… DREDD is an all action ultraviolent sci fi thriller, that has taken movie lovers by surprise in ...
 
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FRC Feature – Lawless Special – Nick Cave’s Work On Films

With Lawless out on general release in the UK this week, Tom decided to take a look at the Australian musician Nick Cave and his contribution to the world of film. Most famous for his dark, sorrowful music style, Nick Cave is a...

 
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Summer on a beach
Summer on a beach

FRC Announcement – Holiday Time and Festival Season Approaches.

The Summer holidays are nearly half over and it is time we took a proper break. That is right campers, FRC is having some downtime (sort of). I am typing this from my tent in a field in Cornwall, UK. I had every intention of ke...
 
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FRC Feature – Edgar Allan Poe in Film

With the Blu-ray & DVD release of The Raven this week, we take a look into the idea of utilizing Edgar Allan Poe’s stories in cinema. Poe’s work inspires horrific murders in The Raven as a detective joins forces with Poe to...
 
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FRC Feature – FRTees is Launched

Movie and TV inspired T-Shirts seem to be all the range, so why not launch some home grown designs? As some of you are probably already aware, I have been trying to get back into design via Adobe Illustrator. It is a steep lear...

 
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FRC Feature – Woody Harrelson: The Man You Love to Hate

Out next week on DVD and Blu-Ray, Rampart is arguably Woody Harrelsons best film to date, Scott takes a look at the career of the man you love to hate Woody Harrelson started his career as the lovable bartender on the hit serie...
 
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FRC TECH Feature – £50 WORTH OF FREE MOVIE CREDIT ON SELECTED SAMSUNG AV PRODUCTS

News has come in to FRC that AV Giants Samsung are giving away £50 of movie credit, read below for more details Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd, a world leader in consumer electronics and digital TV technology, today announced that...
 
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FRC Feature – The Rise of John C. Reilly

John C. Reilly is one of those actors that has kind of slipped into the foreground, but it was not by accident, he has been slowly emerging for years, Scott takes a look at his career. Carnage, a film coming out on DVD and Blu-...

 
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FRC Feature – 5-D Cinema

With 3-D cinema declining in popularity, Tom stumbled upon a much more exciting proposition whilst on holiday, 5-D cinema! Is this the future or just a cheap gimmick? Once in a while we all need to stretch our legs and escape f...
 
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FRC Feature – FRC Towers

I thought it was high time that I shared with you all where I do most of my movie viewing these days, FRC Towers OK so I do not actually live in a tower. It is a standard UK City suburb Semi-Detached just outside Brighton. But ...
 
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The-Awakening-movie-review

FRC Feature – Top Female Leads in Horror Films

Plenty of strong women have been featured in horror films. From Nicole Kidman in The Others to Naomi Watts in The Ring, these females deliver bone-chilling performances. To celebrate the release of the British horror films The ...

 
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FRC Feature – Firepower on Screen

As a bonus feature, Scott looks at the best uses of firepower that has graced our screens in the modern era of cinema Act of Valour hits our screens at the end of next week, having opened in the US Box Office at Number One. Fol...
 
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New Mirror Mirror Featurette – Armie Hammer on Prince Alcott.

With the first of this years Snow White films just around the corner, Studiocanal have released a new featurette all about Armie Hammer’s Prince Alcott Visionary director Tarsem Singh (Immortals) rewrites fairy tale histo...
 
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Spielberg oscars 2 (Large)
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FRC Feature – Steven Spielberg and Anil Ambani walk the Oscar red carpet

Reliance Group chairman Anil Ambani walked the red carpet at the 84th Academy Awards, where three films produced by DreamWorks Studios, his co-venture with Steven Spielberg and Stacey Snider, were nominated for 11 Oscars. Among...