Ok, this is going to be a long one. Earlier on this year, I interviewed Joe Cornish for SFX magazine, about his debut feature, Attack The Block (loved it by the way Joe!). Seeing as the article has been and gone, I thought it might be fun to stick the transcript for the interview up here. There’s a lot of material I didn’t manage to squeeze into the article, so give it a read. You might want to save it for a long train journey, or an epic poo though, cos it’s really really long. We chatted for around 40 minutes, and Joe was kind, courteous and very funny. Hope you enjoy it! (more…)

Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish - appearing soon in a dark alleyway near you.

Recently I interviewed Joe Cornish for SFX magazine, about his upcoming movie directing debut Attack the Block. It was a lovely interview, and Joe was very generous with his time chatting for over 40 minutes. Which meant there was a lot of good stuff I couldn’t quite squeeze into the article. Some of that material included a large digression we had about his friendship with fellow director Edgar Wright. So I thought I’d stick it on my blog as a sort of accompaniment to the SFX article (Which is in the shops now, issue 207!).  Click through to read about how Joe and Edgar became friends, how the Ant Man and Tintin projects came about, and how their friendship ultimately led to to the creation of Attack the Block… (more…)

Ghostbusters' star Ernie Hudson signs some stuff. I didn't take this picture, but he was wearing the same t-shirt when I met him.

As a geeky sci-fi journalist, I get to do quite a few interviews with geek celebrities. But occasionally, for whatever reason, the interviews get spiked, and they never appear in the mags they’re intended for. So I thought it might be fun to post up a few of these lost interviews for your reading ‘pleasure’. First up is this interview with Ghostbusters star Ernie Hudson, better known as Winston Zeddmore. Stargate fans might want to pay attention… (more…)

Why the grumpy face Tony? Is it because you're a PLAGIARIST?

So the other week, I went to see Iron Man 2. I mostly loved the first one (great opening 2/3rds, rubbish final act, redeemed by awesome ending), so I was massively psyched for the sequel. In fact, I *might* have gone into the cinema whispering ‘robots, robots’ over and over in a slightly disturbing manner. Little did I know, I was about to witness a Grand Theft Robo.

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Some guy with way too much access to sweeties edited together this compilation of people using the phrase “we’ve got company“. Because none of us were aware what a cliche that was. He sort of ruins it at the end with the plug for his cheesy TV show, and to be honest, if it didn’t feature a 3-second clip of Tron, my all time favourite film, I wouldn’t have even featured it. (more…)

Happy holiday to all of you! Hope you enjoy your long weekend. If you’re looking for something to do, between scarfing down chocolate eggs and feeling slightly sick, why not enter our iPad competition? Personally, I’m going to see Kick Ass again. Awesome film. See you on the other side!

BREAKING NEWS: For the Easter period, the British Military Fitness App, ‘My Fitness Instructor’ has been reduced to £5.99/$9.99! Get it here!

So today’s post was supposed to be about getting back into classes after  a week off. Yeah, so that didn’t happen. (more…)

Today I thought I’d have a quick trawl around YouTube and pull out some interesting fitness videos. Some are funny, some are impressive, some are just eyeball-meltingly odd.

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Corey Feldman (centre) on the set of The Lost Boys.

Not really fitness related, but kind of sad geek news, just found out that The Lost Boys star Corey Haim has just been found dead at the age of 38. (more…)

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For last night’s 6pm session, we had a new instructor, Russ. His catchphrase for the night was “No drama.” If only. (more…)