About Movie Geeks

Sandy Cheema, also known as a Movie Geek, is a blogger and radio producer living and working in London. Sandy started her blog in January 2009 after a trip to New York where she visited McDowell’s restaurant in Queens, in homage to Coming To America.

Movie Geeks consists of her widely read thoughts, personal experiences and love for classic 80′s films. Sandy has worked closely on the UK films releases of Adam Yauch’s Gunnin’ for That #1 Spot, Tyson, Notorious and many more. Sandy now works full-time as a radio producer on DJ Trevor Nelson’s show as well as being a member of the BBC Radio 1 & 1Xtra’s film team.

A few things about Sandy…

- I am obsessed with horror films and have been ever since my older cousins forced me to watch Child’s Play at the age of 4.

- I fell in love with Christopher Mintz Plasse aka McLovin from Superbad when he dropped me an LL Cool J inspired freestyle in a posh London hotel in 2009.

- I have made my family watch Home Alone every Christmas since 1990 (it’s fair to say that it is now a festive tradition).

- I have an unhealthy obsession with Coming To America – I’ve lost count of the amount times that I’ve watched it.

- I studied Film, Culture and Society at The University of Birmingham and did my dissertation on the representation of women in The Color Purple.

- I used to take UK music artists to the cinema every week to watch the latest films including; Tinie Tempah, Jay Sean, Taio Cruz, Chipmunk, Wretch 32 and more.

- In August 2011, 50 Cent’s former DJ, DJ Whoo Kid and Tinie Tempah featured me and Russell Brand on their international mixtape The Foreign Object.