Tweet Arnie is coming back on screen this Friday on our screens and he is teaming up with Kim Jee Woom, the amazing Korean director of The Good, The Bad and The Weird, I Saw The Devil and A BitterSweet Life (unofficially remade in India as Awaarapan). Although not to many Asian directors have...
I Give it A Year New...
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Tweet Only last night we were having a discussion about Damages the court room drama which just finished it’s final season in the US and after the promise of the first season, it couldnt really live up to it’s potential. As with any claim I make, I usually get challenged and proven...
The Great Gatsby: Ne...
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Tweet Not only is Leonardo Dicaprio teaming up with Baz Luhrman after Romeo + Juliet, but also with long time friend Toby Maguire. It seems that Baz Luhrman is bringing a lot of his trademark elements to this adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald classic novel. The film is shot in 3d and adding to...
Mel Gibson’s s...
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Tweet Lights, camera, action! Or in Upod’s case: pizza, ice cream, movie! The venue? Martin’s flat, London. The food? Domino’s meat-based pizzas and Ben and Jerry’s Vermonster and Cookie Dough ice cream. The occasion? A Upod get together and a chance to watch Mel...
Curry Smugglers Chil...
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Tweet *Before you start reading, I would suggest you scroll down and start listening to the embedded episode of the Curry Smugglers below, even more so if you have never heard the show before. Done? Let’s go. The Curry Smugglers started out as a South Asian based music podcast 7...
Oz The Great and Pow...
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Tweet We posted quite a few posters a couple of days ago and now we get the full trailer and a few still from the movie, set to be Disney first big release of 2013. I love most of the cast involved just as long as the titular character doesn’t “Franco” it up. Whatever...
The Hobbit: Amazing ...
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Tweet There really isn’t much to say about The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, if you loved the previous LOTR trilogy by Peter Jackson and have seen the trailers, you are pretty much completely on board and probably have the date of 13 december marked in your calendar. Although the...
Oz The Great and Pow...
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Tweet Although I wasn’t blown away from the first teaser of Oz The Great and Powerful, rewatching the trailer and seeing some of the image and artwork has gotten me more and more excited as time goes by. Maybe it’s the fact that Disney choose to have the movie helmed by Sam Raimi...
Life Of Pi: Exclusiv...
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Tweet Every shot we have seen from Life of Pi has just been excruciatingly beautiful, and although we haven’t read Yann Martel’s book the movie is based on yet, it has been recommended to us at least a gajillion time (no joke). Shot in eye popping 3D, Ang Lee is certainly an...
Top Ten Movies of Up...
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Tweet Last week there The British Film Institute released it’s Sight And Sound Poll, a survey they do every decade with over 800 Film critics, distributors and academics. The big news this year was that Citizen Kane was knocked out the number one position by Vertigo. There hasn’t...
Nima Nourizadeh
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Tweet It’s been a long long time, although not in a galaxy far far away sadly. Returning to Upod with some content, I thought I’d kick-off with an intro to director Nima Nourizadeh. A London born British-Iranian, he is probably most commonly known for his debut movie feature,...
SuperMan vs Hulk Fan...
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Tweet A comic book nerd’s wet dream and an endless debate when chilling out with fellow geeks, what would happen when 2 of the most beloved and powerful characters in Comic book History collided? Michael Habajan has created a few short CGI animated video’s having both...
The “Community...
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Tweet Our favorite TV comedy is still on hiatus although there has been confirmation that the show is definitely coming back! In the meantime you can revisit the iconic episodes in this cut out board game. You can get a bigger version from the US Direct website, I would suggest cutting out...
Cinema 2011: The yea...
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Tweet Dutch Video Artist Kees van Dijkhuizen makes a wrap up video for the past few years ( check out his previous work by clicking here). A lot of times us film fans become a bit cynical around this time of year. I know I do, so always good to have a look back at all the awesomeness...
Lego The Movie
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Tweet Some interesting news greeted my inbox today and I’m not at all sure of where I stand on this one. In fact, even thinking of standing on Lego brings back painful childhood memories – especially when you step right on the corner of a little square block in bare feet. So, back...





