“Do you remember when you first saw a dinosaur?” Claire Deering (Bryce Dallas Howard) asks in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. I do. I remember the sense of awe and wonder it invoked in me when I first saw Steven Spielberg’s classic blockbuster. In fact, every time I r...

Just like the Star Wars movies before it, I was there at midnight.

The previous midnight screenings of Star Wars movies had seen heaving cinemas filled with cosplayers and excitable fans. Yet, for Solo, a single usher greeted us and the handful of other hopeful fans. Ne...

FoodnFilm – Black Panther Feb 2018

The FoodnFilm event in February 2018 was the second one I’ve attended…ERGO it must be good right?

Well, obviously yes… but please read on and hopefully I can explain why I went back for more and will continue to go to these events.

So,...

After the excitement of Black Panther, I was beyond excited to hear the Geek Squad was making a night of it with awesome food at Almost Famous, a great talk by recruiters and discussion around what it takes to be a super hero by recruiters, and the main event, the bit...

Here is how some of April's movies fared:

Isle of Dogs - 8/10 

Was Anderson is back with a typically fantastical stop-motion film. Everything that is great about Wes Anderson is on show here: witty dialogue, visual beauty,  a dynamite cast and a heartwarming, simple stor...

In a new concept we are asking some of Manchester's great and good to tell us about their love of film and how it has impacted their life.

We call it MoviesnMe. Next up is Midas' James Spiers

Tell us a bit about you. Who are you, where do you come from and what do you do...

In a new concept we are asking some of Manchester's great and good to tell us about their love of film and how it has impacted their life.

We call it MoviesnMe. Next up is Naffies nominee Tom Cheesewright.

Tom is an Applied Futurist, which probably means he has already s...

The Four Seasons* really did sum it up best: ‘Oh what a night – late March back at The Naffies’ ....If you don’t get that reference, please ask your mum.

We must admit, this is probably the hardest review we’ve ever written. That’s for one reason and one reason only: we...

Here at FoodnFilm we like to do things a little differently, so when our film reviewer, Dave Howarth, informed us that his friend Cain Wilkes had never seen a Marvel Movie, we had to inspire him to change that. So, during the month of April,4 Cain will be watching no l...

At the recent Empire Awards Meryl Streep proudly called Steven Spielberg a ‘pessimist’s nightmare’, saying that ‘there isn’t an ounce of cynicism in [his] world view’. The truth of these words is epitomised in the legendary director’s newest film Ready Player One - a f...