The Orphanage Review and other oddities

Thoroughly enjoyed this creepy masterpiece. A Spanish film with subtitles and totally riveting, with superb performances.

To tell too much about the film would spoil it, but try and see this film in the limited cinemas it seems to be showing at.

I hope a wider release is planned because it broke my heart to see such a brilliantly crafted piece of film-making debut at number 10 in the Uk charts having made less thn £400,000.

So many, so called, scary films these days are an excuse for the fx and make up boys to create the goriest most repulsive images possible but they are just that, fx whereas a film like this gets under the skin and is chilling in a much more effective way. Psychologically.

It's a great date movie because you'll definitely be clinging onto someone by the end! Heartbreaking, but a totally exhilerating cinematic experience, we see the desperation of a mother for her lost child and how the past comes back to haunt her.

Brilliant, 5 stars out of 5.

WE BE FIRE FIGHTERS!!

That's not true, but the filming of "Much Ado About Lauren" gathers pace. We now have a definite wrap date (10th May) due to several key film festivals having their submission deadlines by the end of May.

So in the Easter holidays we are wanting to complete all of our remaining "flashback sequences" for the film.

We're doing well. We filmed Tom on a digger and yesterday had tremendous fun filming at a graveyard (don't worry no plot points are given away!) and then we had the most fantastic time filming with the lads at the Stopsley fire station.

A few enquires, emails and phone calls meant that we were able to have Tom become a fire fighter for an hour.

The guys were so helpful, we had Tom go mad with a hose and we even got to ride around in the fire engine with sirens blaring to get the shots that we needed!

Good times, and all the footage looks great.

We then went to a local corner shop where Tom was given permission to comically steal lots of cans of beer! Again went very well.

The film is going so well, I couldn't be more pleased with how it's coming together and the efforts of my brilliant cast.