Attack The Block, starring Huddersfield's own Jodie Whitttaker, is the debut feature of Joe Cornish of Adam & Joe fame. Alongside Whittaker, it stars Nick Frost, John Boyega and Luke Treadaway and is produced by Nira Park and James Wilson of Shaun of the Dead-producing fame. Based on these few nuggets of information, you should know what to expect; smart, funny comedy with a hybrid twist and a reverence to its genre with plenty of pop culture references that refuses to pull any punches. Is that what I thought of it? Check out the trailer and I'll let you know...

I know - it's official title is Scre4m, but that is a stupid non-word. On a par with Se7en for ridiculously titled films. Anyway, this is the fourth installment of Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson's postmodern slasher franchise, and the first since 2001 when the series apparently signed off on a pretty disappointing note. Ten years and a slew of horror rehashes later, Scream is back to take on torture porn and remakes. How exciting.

I know - it's official title is Scre4m, but that is a stupid non-word. On a par with Se7en for ridiculously titled films. Anyway, this is the fourth installment of Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson's postmodern slasher franchise, and the first since 2001 when the series apparently signed off on a pretty disappointing note. Ten years and a slew of horror rehashes later, Scream is back to take on torture porn and remakes. How exciting.

I tend to enjoy journalism movies. Mainly because when I think of "journalism" movies, I think of conspiracy thrillers in which an everyman journalist comes up against some sort of faceless evil with a name like "MegaCorp" or "Sinestro Inc". The thing is, some of my favourite movie journalists don't come from these sorts of movies so I've decided to go for the journalists themselves rather than the film. Here are my top 5 movie journalists...

Apologies for how long this has taken to do - it's been over 48 hours since I saw these, but hopefully I've used the time well to fully absorb what I saw. Or not, we'll see. Check out the trailers, and then what I thought:

Last night I ventured back to Bradford, alone this time, to see A Night For Dying Tigers, the new feature by director/producer/writer/cinematographer/editor Terry Miles. Preceding it was an odd short called Just Before Dawn, which I couldn't quite get on board with, but certainly didn't mind it.

So, check out the trailer for Dying Tigers and then I'll tell you what I thought.

The 17th annual Bradford International Film Festival kicked off in style last night with plenty of free alcohol and a screening of Woody Allen's You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger.

What was an enjoyable evening was slightly spoiled by a pretty atrocious film, but I'll get to that later. First, have a look at the trailer:

Today marks the start of the 17th annual Bradford International Film Festival, centred at the National Media Museum. I'll be heading over there later on for the opening night gala and a screening of Woody Allen's new movie, the London-based You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger.

I'll be blogging after each day that I'm there - unfortunately this won't be every day due to the huge amounts of university work I have to do before the end of this month - and I'll also aim to be tweeting from the festival - follow me, @GeneralRock, and look for any #biff2011 hashtags that pop up. I might even record the odd short audio podcast to put up on here for your aural delight.

Check back here later today for a review of You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, and over the next eleven days I'll do my best to bring you awesome coverage of what's happening. Or, head over there yourself to see some of the many features, premieres, shorts, documentaries, Q&As, and everything else from the festival.

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Tonight, I saw Paul, the first feature co-written by Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. Yes, it came out two weeks ago and yes, I made up my mind before it came out that I didn't care about it, but I went to see it anyway. Why? Because sitting in the dark with my friends and not talking is about as sociable as I get and it had been a while. Anyway, check out the trailer and read my review. You know it's good for you. Now open wide.

The Oscars happened last night. James Franco and Anne Hathaway hosted the 3-and-a-half hour extravaganza of self-congratulation, and it was great. There have been a lot of people complaining that it was no good and that the hosts weren't entertaining enough, but I thought they did a great job. The King's Speech was the big winner of the night, but rather than blather monotonously through the events I'm going to pick 5 high points and 5 low points to talk about.