Finalium Films

Discovery through strange mediums…

Like your good self, I work for a living (already I have assumed you are 1) good and 2) a worker. See how generous I am?). That means I get up every day and deal with Red Diesel Prices …and I know…I know…you’re probably thinking what a bore I am. I was actually just beginning to think that myself…

But the point is this: sometimes really interesting things do happen as a result of my direct connection with diesel, and now I am going to tell you about one of these such occasions. Luck you, right?

It was an ordinary day: I had got in on time and was making phone calls to different suppliers and generally doing my diesel admin work. Sometimes it’s more interesting than others, but one thing is for sure: like anything, after a while it can get mundane…

It’ll transform your views on the world as we know it, and seriously make you think twice about where we will be if we keep going as we are

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“Searching For Bobby Fischer” Makes You Want to Buy Chess Sets

‘Searching for Bobby Fischer’ was released in 1993 but still never fails to make an impact on an audience whenever it is viewed. On its initial release, hundreds of cinemagoers reported afterward that they felt compelled to go and buy chess sets which considering the content of the movie is hardly surprising. Unlike a lot of modern films though, ‘Searching for Bobby Fischer’ was not designed with product placement in mind.

The film follows the story of Josh Waitzkin – a typical American boy only interested in playing baseball. That is until one day he challenges his Dad to a chess match and wins. Realising that he’s found something he’s good at, Josh ventures into the outdoor matches held in Washington Square in New York City and quickly makes friends with a chess hustler names Vinnie. Vinnie teaches him ‘speed chess’ whilst Josh’s parents hire a renowned chess coach called Bruce who teaches Josh the value of measured and tactical planning. Like all kids, Josh becomes impatient and tires of Bruce’s system and chess in general and deliberately throws an important match leaving the chances of winning a national championship in serious doubt.

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Die Hard 4.0 Reviewed

I was bored of working on the payroll software for my firm and decided to check out Die Hard 4.0 instead. The movie has a very simple plot line that has been used for quite some time now. John Mclane is this guy who never quits and who has no problem in getting under the skin of his villains. On the other hand, the villain is a very smart guy who comes up with the most outrageous plots and nearly More

The Dark Knight: The Dark Horse

People think “Batman” = another childhood favourite turned to smut by Hollywood. But they’re wrong. The Dark Knight remains one of my all time favourite films to date. A film that dwarfed its predecessors and competitors and still continues to thrill me to this day.

That scene when the Joker lets lose on someone on national television, or where a police officer crashes into the Mayor’s window still make me jump with excitement. The constant twists and developments in the More

Never to be Forgotten: The Cave of Forgotten Dreams

It is not often that a film leaves me in a state of real awe, not just about the filmmaker’s ability, but also about the subject of the movie.

The Cave of Forgotten Dreams excelled all expectations in leaving me in a awe-struck, dream-like haze for days afterwards. In fact, even weeks after I first saw the film, whenever I think about it, I am still easily drawn into a state of wonder.

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Insidious: The Holy Grail of Horror

When was the last time a horror film actually scared you? Lovers of horror will surely understand what I mean when you constantly look for that scare fix every time you watch a new scary movie. Horror is always the choice of film for the low budget filmmaker; look at our recent trends in the genre with films such as Paranormal Activity and Monsters. Sometimes when some serious cash is put into a horror it loses it’s fear factor when More

Watch It Now: Never Let Me Go

If you ask me, Kazuo Ishiguro is the man: few people can write great sci-fi, and even fewer can do it with the kind of mesmerizing sensitivity and nuance that he can and apparently so easily does. More than that, he’s a talented short-story writer with enough printed words under his belt to rival almost any other credible modern author.

Never Let Me Go is, as you may know, a story of human cloning brought back down to earth and More

Behind The Scenes: 127 Hours

When Danny Boyle announced he was working on an action film which spends 95% of the time in one place, with one single actor portraying a true story that sounded by all accounts unfilmable, critics and the public alike were understandably sceptical. What was Boyle trying to prove? Why do this when he could do pretty much whatever he wanted after Slumdog Millionaire? There were many questions and very few answers for a long time.

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Fight Club, American Psycho & Horrible Predictions…

When Fight Club – Chuck Pahlaniuk’s seminal and now legendary novel – came out, the critics and the public were divided. Some loved the concept of beating the crap out of one another in a dingy basement, week after week, while others called it nothing better than cheap porn. But one thing they did all agree on: the message in the book is strong. In my opinion, one of the reasons why that book made such an impact was its timing: like American Psycho, it was one of those rare novels which seemed to be predicting a future that we were all on the cusp of, whether we liked it or not, we were there.

Fast forward a few years and the sick jokes in American Psycho – as well as the running theme of man’s obsession with material things – have become a main-stay of modern society. Now, commerce is more obsessed with money and violence than it ever has been before. Reading those books now, it’s a strange feeling. It’s almost as if both those authors had insight into a window of the future and wrote about it with raging honesty to warn us. Not that we bothered listening, of course.

No: we want our dog insurance, and we wants our levitating toilets that can easily be cleaned under. We want the best of everything, and are duped into buying it while the government spends money on things to keep an eye on us. Call me a crackpot conspiracy theorist if you like, but take a walk down your city street and count the CCTV cameras, then get back to me.

Of course, Pahlaniuk and Easton Ellis didn’t really see into the future. They merely took their cues and unravelled where we were going. Strange, then, that so many people complained about those books. Or who knows, maybe people complained because they could see themselves in the faces of the protagonists?

The Lord of the rings saga continues…

Since the moment fans around the globe stopped rejoicing over the Lord of the rings trilogy, there has been an effervescent stream of rumours surrounding the development of a prequel story, ‘The Hobbit’. Many people were cynical that the Lord of the rings story could be made into a convincing narrative for a modern audience, the way J R Tolkien portrays many story elements is rather old fashioned and often relatively impenetrable . The language is dense (featuring many made More