The universe has spoken: M. Night Shyamalan has – pardon my French – crapped out another shitter. Furthering his decline from any form of credibility, his latest film, the sci-fi adventure After Earth (unseen as of writing but reviewed on Flicks here) has crashed and burned, tanking miserably at the US box office while getting ... Read on.
In this edition of Shelf Life, Aaron Yap’s ongoing series of back catalogue film viewing, you’ll meet a crazy bomber, grumpy cop and serial rapist in The Police Connection; a pre-Mad Men ad exec beset by existenti... Read on.
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... 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 theatres or home video in the States for one reason: Depp was so hurt ... 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 biopi... 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 and a scuffed-up 1940s film noir in three pictures you’ve probably never heard of but now, like us, need to track down and check out. ... 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 th... 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 of an “acceptable review” (racist remarks, political rants, etc). After doing this for ... 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, bas... 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.