Sci-fi London Film Festival 2010

Monday, May 3rd, 2010

The ninth annual London Film Festival of Science Fiction and Fantasy is another six days of genre films, panels and events. I book a few tickets for myself and a friend and we head down for a full day and night of film watching. We first watch the second of ...

Sci-fi London Film Festival 2009

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

The beginning of May brings with it six days of sci-fi films and panels at the Sci-Fi London Film Festival, 2009 marking the eighth year of the festival. With a bunch of tickets bought in advance a few friends and I spend the best part of the bank holiday ...

Sci-fi London Oktoberfest

Monday, October 6th, 2008

For the first time since its inception the London Sci-fi Film Festival held a second event this year, separate from its main film festival. Called Oktoberfest, it was a smaller event than the main film festival in May but with all the features expected of the festival. Although ...

Weekend, CDs and tickets

Monday, September 8th, 2008

This weekend found me in the centre of London again, which makes three trips in to town in three weeks. The first trip I had planned to meet up with a friend for a birthday lunch but had managed to get my dates wrong. It still suited me ...

Free crap from the Sci-fi Film Festival

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

I forgot to mention in my review of last week's Sci-fi Film Festival that I managed to get a handful of DVDs thrown or handed to me during the screenings. As I mentioned, the festival director, Louis Savy, introduced each film personally. During these short introductions a whole ...

Seventh Annual London Sci-fi Film Festival

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

This weekend saw me spend about half my time inside a cinema watching sci-fi films, at the seventh annual sci-fi film festival in London. This year's schedule of films was far superior to the previous year, where a misguided collaboration with a horror genre magazine led to half the ...

Bank card nonsense

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

A couple of weeks back I bought a whole load of tickets for myself and a couple of friends for the forthcoming Sci-fi Film Festival in London. Despite having done this every year since the event started the large purchase of cinema tickets gets flagged as anomalous by my ...

Mario Kart Wii

Monday, April 14th, 2008

I popped in to London on Saturday to pick up a ticket for Blitzen Trapper, as well as a bunch of tickets for this year's Sci Fi London film festival, which thankfully looks far better than last year's disappointing schedule. I was able to get all the tickets that ...