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If you’re interested in the global economy and in global currency, consider getting involved in forex. If you have no idea what forex is, then look no further! To learn the basics of foreign exchange trading and to get a start on understanding how it works and how you could do it, read the four informational tips below.

The difficulty with trading forex in this manner is that the day trader is strictly small fry, playing with a few thousand dollars, even a few hundred thousand will not affect the market at all. When the small guys take a position no noticeable movement will be seen. And then along comes one of the big players in the market with tens of millions of dollars and takes a position and the price will shift noticeably.

Real and Raw: The miniature fx behind Interstellar

I am a huge fan of Nolan's films, and Interstellar was no exception. I was looking forward to seeing the film and one of the most recognisable parts for me was the realism. FX Guide have a behind the scenes look at the miniature models used to create the incredible exterior shots of the space craft used within the film.

Nolan’s wish to replicate space shots achieved in principal photography, where an exterior camera was literally bolted to the side of the spacecraft, was one he felt should also be achieved in the visual effects world.

Call of Duty Advanced Warfare: Live Trailer Breakdown

The Call of Duty franchise has become one of the annual events of the gaming year. Not only now do we have games on an epic scale, but the trailers themselves are pushing the boundaries of how these games are advertised. This new instalment Advanced Warfare is no exception, with lead actor Taylor Kitsch staring in this live action thriller.

Filmed on sets and in the Californian desert, MPC LA transformed the photography into a frenetic action piece.

Surprisingly enough not all of these are about video! I know, scary right?

Rooster Teeth Podcast - My favoruite Podcast! Just plain funny simple as that. Supposably about Video games but they always go off into random tangents.

Scriptnotes - John and Craig are a great duo in scriptwriting tip and format. I enjoy listening to them even though I don't want to be a copywriter!

Good Mythical Morning - Rett and Link make this random show about random things. It's very PG but great none the less. "Let's talk about that."

FXguide: FX Podcast - Back to my roots. I am only on episode five, at the time of writing this, but still am enjoying this one.

HUGO FILM REVIEW - 13/12/11 - !!!WARNING!!! THIS DOES CONTAIN SPOILERS

After watching and listening to the FXGuide.com podcast about VFX behind Martin Scorsese's latest feature HUGO, I was compelled to see the film for myself and check out what the legendary director was inviting us on. 

HUGO follows the story of an orphan boy who lives in the walls of central Paris train station, avoiding the Station Master by maintaining the station clocks so the Station Master does't investigate the maintenance areas and send Hugo to a State Orphanage. Hugo is on a quest to unlock a secret clockwork robot his father discovered in the museum before he died, which takes him somewhere he never expected. 

HUGO is full of colour, nostalgia, and the romantic sense of Paris is all over the palette of this film. The film begins slow and takes around 20 minutes for you to get past what has lead Hugo to be an orphan before the film grabs you and takes you on his story. But if you can keep with it, its worth the wait as you get taken on a homage of the history of cinema, and Hugo trying to reconnect with his father.

Within the film there are a lot of sub-plots that connected together in a way that felt forced and were there to make the overall relationship between the characters connect to force the story on. But hidden within a lot of mystery you are compelled to carry on. The performances by the two main actors were average and lacked a sense of naturalness and ease, which I didn't expect from a Martin Scorsese picture and had a similar tone and lack of quality to that of Super 8. 

However despite these criticisms, I can't fault that I was totally engaged with the story and I wanted to see it to the end. As an audience what you are left with and the point that the entire film makes above everything is that the gift that cinema gives us is "imagination and dreams".  

Would I recommend people see this film? Definitely.. Would I recommend people see this film in 3D? No... 

One of the main reasons that initially compelled me to go see the film was the FX Guide Podcast that talked about the 3D stereo being the best of any 3D film to be release. However for me I felt that although there were a couple of impressive 3D shots looking down the Station Clock tower, for the most part the 3D was a distraction from the film. For those of you that like 3D films, this maybe a great film for you to watch as my colleague who watched the with me did love the 3D stereo work. But for me I would have preferred to have watched it in 2D.

HUGO