Aaron Yap's

At an impressionable young age, Aaron was traumatised by Philippe Mora's 1982 monster flick The Beast Within and has never looked back. He started reviewing professionally for the Sunday-Star Times for several years before moving onto Real Groove, then Groove Guide. During the day he buys movies and manages site content for fatso.co.nz. He has also served some time in the pre-NZFF crew of the Incredibly Strange Film Festival, where he learned to value all forms of cinema, devoting equal time to bottom-of-the-barrel trash and the slowest of arthaus endurance tests.

Skid Marks: Cool Car Movies For Your Consideration

by Aaron Yap, from The B-Roll May 16 2013,

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.

April 11 2013,

Anthology of Anthorrorlogies

by Aaron Yap, from The B-Roll

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.

Getting Hitched in the ’80s

by Aaron Yap, from The B-Roll March 18 2013,

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.

February 10 2013,

Shelf Life #6

by Aaron Yap, from The B-Roll

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.

January 24 2013,

Shelf Life #5

by Aaron Yap, from The B-Roll

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.

The B-Roll Year in Review Review 2012

by Aaron Yap, from The B-Roll January 11 2013,

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.

December 20 2012,

Shelf Life #4: Unsubtitled Edition

by Aaron Yap, from The B-Roll

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.

December 05 2012,

I Don’t Go to the Movies to Read

by Aaron Yap, from The B-Roll

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.

Shelf Life #3

by Aaron Yap, from The B-Roll November 22 2012,

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.

November 09 2012,

Fake 70′s Crime Movie Box Set

by Aaron Yap, from The B-Roll

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.

October 25 2012,

Shelf Life #2

by Aaron Yap, from The B-Roll

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.

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