A shift in writing style
Time really flies doesn't it? I've been doing this movie writing gig for coming up to three years in July and I've hardly changed my writing style, or the way I have reported on news. Changed the website design more times than I've changed the tires in my car but I've never changed much about what I write and how I write it. But I think that's all about to change. 
Over the past few weeks, you may have noticed that we have been promoting ourselves as less of a blog or a website but more of an online film magazine and I have done my best to encourage our writers to come up with more feature length material than ever before. Simon and Gareth have done a great job keeping up Top Ten Lists, and I look forward to seeing more from them in the future. Our Movie Castaway has been a success and I'm so thankful for the guests that have agreed to feature on it (we are looking to make that feature into video format very soon, which will be great). We are being invited to more and more screenings and we probably have more film writers right now than ever before, all doing a fantastic job. I like that Simon is keeping up with DVD reviews, which was always something that had so much potential here but we were never able to truly run with, Ray is helping out from the U.S. too which is great. We are getting to see things early, which I always enjoy (see our reviews of Star Trek and Drag Me To Hell), if for nothing else than it keeps our audience a breast of how a movie we are anticipating has turned out, good/bad and whether it's worth paying your hard earned money to see. I'm loving Tom Fallows' personal essays in After Dark and I can't wait to see what films he has up and coming. I personally hate Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid with a passion but Fallows' Ebert like writing style, makes me curious to check it out again and see what I missed. Ray has been freed from his shackles and is really taking no prisoners with Unfiltered Lens. His writings are always controversial but I don't think he has ever been as interesting as he has for the last month. OWF should be attending both Cannes and Comic Con in San Diego, the latter I might be attending myself if all the cards fall into the right place. We might be covering Edinburgh, we will definitely be covering Toronto and London. These will all be full blog coverage, with daily photo archives and the like. Hell, I've even started writing my a film script and for the first time in a couple of years, I'm beginning to eat much healthier. Which is a bonus and helps my mood. Everything is going pretty well right now. So what is this post all about then? Well I'm basically letting you guys know that I'm not really going to be talking about movie news as much as before, at least not in the same style as previous. 99% of what I write from now on will be going into my Holmes blog (which may not always appear on the homepage) and will be best read in blog format. So I encourage you all to bookmark THIS LINK. So ideally, I want everyone to visit Obsessed With Film first AND my personal blog, because they are kinda going to be two different things. OWF will be for more feature based material and will carry the writings of the full staff here. My blog, which is where most of my writings will be situated, will just be present on my blog. There I will hopefully carry daily photo diaries if possible, daily rants. My commentary on the movie scene, bits and bobs about film history. I'm so excited to start writing like this. Just kind of diary entries and streams-of-consciousness reports really, writing about whatever mood I am in at a particular time. Hope you guys stick around for it, I'm just so tired of talking about movie news in the same formulaic fashion and most of you people know it already from visiting other sites.