feature: Heineken wants to Serenade you!

Or rather, they want you to serenade your loved ones… yes. That’s more accurate. I’m sure they’d sing to you if you asked them to though. Well, maybe. Anyway, obviously this is a little different from my usual posts. It’s a sponsored post but then I wouldn’t write about it if I thought it was [...]

feature: 84th Academy Award Nominees ballot form

So, how has the Awards season made you feel this year? Happy? Sad? Angry? Indifferent? Well… prepare to feel more of whatever you’ve felt about them so far because, yes yes, the Oscar nominations are out! You can see a full list on the official site here. As usual, I’ll be doing an Oscar predictions [...]

feature: Light House Cinema, Smithfield re-opening!

If you live in Dublin and haven’t heard by now then I’m here to spread the word! The beautiful Light House Cinema in Smithfield is reopening this Friday, 20th January 2012. New operators, Element Pictures, say they plan to screen the best of international art house and Irish cinema, as well as re-runs of classics [...]

feature: top 10 films of 2011

Little late this year but hey, better late than never right? Right?? On the whole, I don’t think 2011 was a great year for cinema. There were some great films sure but I struggled to get 10 films to be honest. I should probably preface this by saying that I managed to miss 3 of [...]

feature: Stella Artois DVD promotion

Ok, so I don’t usually write this kind of thing… but it seems like a good promotion so I thought I’d mention it. I mean, any way you can get free DVDs is a good thing right? Besides, for once, there’s actually a really good range of DVDs to choose from, something for everyone as [...]

competition: The Beaver (2011)

**** COMPETITION CLOSED **** Hey everyone, long time no speak… As you may or may not know, Mel Gibson has a new film out called The Beaver. To celebrate it’s release, Eclipse Pictures has been kind enough to give average film reviews a beaver puppet to give away. It’s mad cute and if it were [...]

competition: Taste of Cannes

**** COMPETITION CLOSED **** Hey there folks! Cannes Film Festival is almost upon us and we here in average film reviews want to get you in the spirit with a special prize pack from Stella Artois Earlier this year Stella Artois ran a competition called Cannes Casting Call to find their leading man to star [...]

feature: What? Average Film Reviews at the Irish Blog Awards? Again??

Hey hey, who knew lightning could strike twice! Apparently the kind judges of the Irish Blogs Awards have found it appropriate to put this blog through to the finals for Best Arts & Culture Blog again this year. It was great to make it last year but to make it again this year? I’m as [...]

competition: Battle: Los Angeles

***### COMPETITION CLOSED ###*** If you read my article yesterday you’ll know that I’m pretty enthusiastic about Battle: Los Angeles. Not overly so though, just the right amount. If you too are enthusiastic about it then you should really read on because… … The very kind people at Sony Pictures have given me 5 t-shirts [...]

Please vote for us at the 2011 Total Film Movie Blog Awards!

Holy crap Batman! Now, I ain’t really given to shameless self promotion… well, ok, maybe just a little bit… but I have to admit. I’m pretty damn chuffed about this and I want to tell everyone… Average Film Reviews has been nominated in the Best Overall Blog category at the 2011 Total Film Movie Blog [...]

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