NUFS

Hello, hello, hello!

And welcome to all our new members! Hope you’ve had a good summer and are all ready and refreshed to go back to uni.

NUFS are going to be having our first meeting on Thursday (4th Oct) at Brass Monkey from 7pm.
For the fresh bloods, Brass Monkey’s is a bit of a tradition for NUFS, and a really good one at that!
Brass Monkey is a pub off South Bridge, but it’s not just any old pub, it has it’s own very private, very cosy cinema in the back.

To get to Brass Monkey, located on Drummond Street, you can easily get any Lothian Bus that goes down the Bridges, eg the nos 3, 5, 30, 31, 33, 37, 47 and get off at the Festival Theatre.

However, if you have any problems, get a little lost (like I always do), feel free to email us, or phone me on 0780 325 7194.

See you all there!
Hilary, Rob and Graham.

NUFS are going to be having our next meeting this Thursday (26th) at The Cameo Bar from 6pm. This week’s film will be The Lives Of Others at 8.35. Tickets are £2.

Film Description: “Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s movie debut focuses on the horrifying, sometimes unintentionally funny system of observation in the former East Germany. In the early 1980s, the successful dramatist Georg Dreyman and his longtime companion Christa-Maria Sieland, a popular actress, are big intellectual stars in the socialist state, although they secretly don’t always think loyal to the party line. One day, the Minister of Culture becomes interested in Christa, so the secret service agent Wiesler is instructed to observe and sound out the couple, but their life fascinates him more and more…”

Cheers,
VP Hilary

NUFS are going to be having our next meeting this Thursday (19th) at The Cameo Bar from 6pm. This week’s film will be Curse of the Golden Flower at 6.20pm. Tickets are £2.

Film Description: “China, Later Tang Dynasty, 10th Century. On the eve of the Chong Yang Festival, golden flowers fill the Imperial Palace. The Emperor (Chow Yun Fat) returns unexpectedly with his second son, Prince Jai (Jay Chou). His pretext is to celebrate the holiday with his family, but given the chilled relations between the Emperor and the ailing Empress (Gong Li), this seems disingenuous. For many years, the Empress and Crown Prince Wan (Liu Ye), her stepson, have had an illicit liaison. Feeling trapped, Prince Wan dreams of escaping the palace with his secret love Chan (Li Man), the Imperial Doctor’s daughter. Meanwhile, Prince Jai, the faithful son, grows worried over the Empress’s health and her obsession with golden chrysanthemums. Could she be headed down an ominous path? The Emperor harbors equally clandestine plans; the Imperial Doctor (Ni Dahong) is the only one privy to his machinations. When the Emperor senses a looming threat, he relocates the doctor’s family from the Palace to a remote area. While they are en route, mysterious assassins attack them. Chan and her mother, Jiang Shi (Chen Jin) are forced back to the palace. Their return sets off a tumultuous sequence of dark surprises. Amid the glamour and grandeur of the festival, ugly secrets are revealed. As the Imperial Family continues its elaborate charade in a palatial setting, thousands of golden armored warriors charge the palace. Who is behind this brutal rebellion? Where do Prince Jai’s loyalties lie? Between love and desire, is there a final winner? Against a moonlit night, thousands of chrysanthemum blossoms are trampled as blood spills across the Imperial Palace.”

As usual, we will try to decide which film to see next week at the meeting, but if you can’t make it on Thursday please do email suggestions to nufs@napier.ac.uk. If you’d like to be taken off our mailing list, please email me. I’ve noticed that I’m spamming hundreds of you, but only the committed few keep coming back.

Cheers,
“I really am nice!” Hilary

NUFS are going to be having our next meeting this Thursday (12th) at The Cameo Bar at 6pm. This week’s film will be Sunshine at 6.45pm. Tickets are £2.

Film Description: “The Sun is being destroyed from inside out by a type of highly stable form of matter that renders nuclear fusion impossible, by turning common matter on its own kind. The only hope is to send a team of astronauts to detonate a massive, highly energetic bomb, able able to destroy this strange matter and restore Sun’s natural state.”

As usual, we will try to decide which film to see next week at the meeting, but if you can’t make it on Thursday please do email suggestions to nufs@napier.ac.uk. If you’d like to be taken off our mailing list, please email me. I’ve noticed that I’m spamming hundreds of you, but only the committed few keep coming back.

Cheers,

“It will be me!” Hilary

NUFS are going to be having our next meeting this Thursday (29th) at The Cameo Bar from 6pm. This week’s film will be 300 at 9.00pm. Tickets are £2.

Film Description: “In 480 BC, the Persian king Xerxes sends his massive army to conquer Greece. The Greek city of Sparta houses its finest warriors, and 300 of these soldiers are chosen to meet the Persians at Thermopylae, engaging the soldiers in a narrow canyon where they cannot take full advantage of their numbers. The battle is a suicide mission, meant to buy time for the rest of the Greek forces to prepare for the invasion. However, that doesn’t stop the Spartans from throwing their hearts into the fray, determined to take as many Persians as possible with them.”

As usual, we will try to decide which film to see next week at the meeting, but if you can’t make it on Thursday please do email suggestions to nufs@napier.ac.uk. If you’d like to be taken off our mailing list, please email me. I’ve noticed that I’m spamming hundreds of you, but only the committed few keep coming back.

Cheers,
“I’m not bitter” Hilary

Watch the trailer: 300 - Trailer 2

NUFS are going to be having our next meeting this Thursday (22nd) at McCowan’s Brewhouse at Fountain Park from 6pm. This week’s film will be The Number 23 at 8.50pm. Tickets are £4. However, if you have a Snapfax, it’s £3.

Film Description: “Jim Carrey stars as a man whose life unravels after he comes into contact with an obscure book titled ‘The Number 23′. As he reads the book, he becomes increasingly convinced that it is based on his own life. His obsession with the number 23 starts to consume him, and he begins to realize the book forecasts far graver consequences for his life than he could have ever imagined.”

As usual, we will try to decide which film to see next week at the meeting, but if you can’t make it on Thursday please do email suggestions to nufs@napier.ac.uk.

Cheers,
“I’m not bitter” Hilary

NUFS are going to be having our next meeting this Thursday (15th) at McCowan’s Brewhouse at Fountain Park from 6pm.This week’s film will be The Illusionist at 8.20pm. Tickets are £4. However, if you have a Snapfax, it’s £3.

Film Description: “A magician in turn-of-the-last-century Vienna falls in love with a woman well above his social standing. When she becomes engaged to the crown prince, the magician uses his powers to free her and undermine the stability of the royal house of Vienna.”

As usual, we will try to decide which film to see next week at the meeting, but if you can’t make it on Thursday please do email suggestions to nufs@napier.ac.uk.If you’d like to be taken off our mailing list, please email me. I’ve noticed that I’m spamming hundreds of you, but only the committed few keep coming back.

Cheers,
Hilary

Email: nufs@napier.ac.uk

Hey folks,

NUFS are going to be having our next meeting this Thursday (1st) at McCowan’s, beside Cineworld at 6pm.This week’s film will be Hannibal Rising at 9.00pm. Tickets are £4. If you have a Snapfax, it’s £3.

Film Description: “The story begins in Eastern Europe at the desperate end of World War II. For many it was no longer a conflict of nations but one of individual survival - at any cost. A young Hannibal watches from only steps away as his parents’ violently die, leaving his cherished young sister in his care. This horrific moment will soon pale in comparison to the atrocities he is forced to witness and perhaps survive as a result of. Alone and without any means of support, he is forced to live in a Soviet Orphanage that once served as his family’s beloved home. He flees to Paris to find his uncle has died but his beautiful and mysterious Japanese widow, Lady Murasaki (Gong Li) welcomes him. Even her kindness and love cannot soothe the nightmares and sorrows that plague him. Showing a cunning aptitude for science he is accepted into medical school, which serves to hone his skills and provide the tools to exact justice on the war criminals that haunt him day and night. This quest will ignite an insatiable lust within a serial killer who was not born, but made.”

See you there,

“It should have been me!” Hilary.

NUFS are going to be having our next meeting this Thursday (22nd) at the Cineworld Bar at 6pm.This week’s film will be Hot Fuzz at 8.00pm. Tickets are £4.

Film Description: “Nicholas Angel is the finest cop London has to offer, with an arrest record 400% higher than any other officer on the force. He’s so good, he makes everyone else look bad. As a result, Angel’s superiors send him to a place where his talents won’t be quite so embarrassing - the sleepy and seemingly crime-free village of Sandford. Once there, he is partnered with the well-meaning but overeager police officer Danny Butterman. The son of amiable Police Chief Frank Butterman, Danny is a huge action movie fan and believes his new big-city partner might just be a real-life “bad boy,” and his chance to experience the life of gunfights and car chases he so longs for. Angel is quick to dismiss this as childish fantasy and Danny’s puppy-like enthusiasm only adds to Angel’s growing frustration. However, as a series of grisly accidents rocks the village, Angel is convinced that Sandford is not what it seems and as the intrigue deepens, Danny’s dreams of explosive, high-octane, car-chasing, gunfighting, all-out action seem more and more like a reality. It’s time for these small-town cops to break out some big-city justice.”

Cheers,
Hilary