I feel like I’m being too unreasonably excited about Fast and Furious 6 coming out in a couple of weeks to be devoting an entire blog to “cool car movies”, but anyhow here I am, writing about some cool car movies in anticipation of Fast and Furious 6. A few things to keep in mind: ... Read on.
THE BRAVE If you didn’t know Johnny Depp once directed a movie, I don’t blame ya – and he probably rather you didn’t know too. To this day, his sole directorial effort, The Brave (1997), has yet to be released in ... Read on.
Horror anthologies, and anthologies in general, are by their very nature doomed to be uneven. It’s a rare thing to watch one all the way through and unconditionally love every single chapter. Their multi-narrative structure... Read on.
33 years after his death, and the spectre of Alfred Hitchcock just won’t leave us alone. Last month we watched Anthony Hopkins don a fat suit to play the Master of Suspense in Hitchcock, Sacha Gervasi’s long-awaited biopic-of-sorts. In the yet-to-be-released pile, we can look forward to Brian DePalma getting more Hitchcock out of his ... Read on.
Shelf Life is an ongoing series of blogs that see Aaron working through his unwatched pile of back catalogue films, and in this edition he checks out a journalistic thriller starring Christopher Reeve and Morgan Freeman (in ... Read on.
Aaron’s back with another Shelf Life, reporting on his ongoing efforts to clear his ever-growing backlog of unwatched movies. This time around he unearths some double-crossing jewel thieves, a wasted country singer an... Read on.
As much as I understand the purpose of making year-end best-of lists, and am all for them, I always dread doing one. I’m almost never satisfied with my picks. Once I’ve completed the list, the enthusiasm I feel for these films that I’ve decided are the best of the year, is strangely muted. I think ... Read on.
As promised in my last blog post (I Don’t Go to the Movies to Read), I will review 3 foreign films for this edition of Shelf Life without the aid of English subtitles. Some might call me crazy – to remove one of the m... Read on.
One of the fun things I sometimes get to do at my day job at Fatso is reading and approving customer film reviews. We have to look out for foul language and other inappropriate material that may not fall within the boundaries... Read on.
Here’s another entry in Shelf Life, Aaron’s ongoing series of viewing diaries, where he writes about stuff he’s picked off his shelf, is seeing for the first time, and so on. You know the drill by now, basically it’s a way for Aaron to force himself to clear his ever-growing backlog of unwatched movies… In this blog ... Read on.
When I first started thinking about this post it was simple and ordinary enough: a list of favourite ‘70s American crime pictures that I think should deserve more love. I was going to tie it in/add some relevance with the r... Read on.
Here’s the second installment of Shelf Life, my ongoing series of viewing diaries, writing about stuff I’ve picked off my shelf, seeing for the first time etc. Basically it’s a way to force myself to clear the ever... Read on.