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Aaron Yap

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Bio:
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. He counts 'Venus in Furs' ('69), 'Two-Lane Blacktop', 'Hard Times', 'Local Hero', 'Seconds', 'Deep End', 'L'Intrus' among his favourite films and is particularly partial to anything from the '70s. On Thursday nights, he can be heard zoning out on Psychic Glands on Auckland's 95bFM from 11pm-1am.

Films: 52

01 / 01 / 1970

The Company You Keep

Robert Redford’s fictionalised flushing-out of the remaining members of the ‘70s radical anti-war group Weather Underground is a dull thud... READ FULL REVIEW

01 / 01 / 1970

Barbara

In the recent past, communist-era Germany has served as the inspiration for entertaining crowd-pleasers such as Goodbye, Lenin! and The... READ FULL REVIEW

01 / 01 / 1970

The Red House

Alyx Duncan’s gracefully assured debut feature The Red House is not just one of the best films about cross-cultural romances... READ FULL REVIEW

01 / 01 / 1970

Electrick Children

First-time writer/director Rebecca Thomas’ coming-of-age tale of a 15-year-old Mormon girl getting a taste of freedom and rebellion is like... READ FULL REVIEW

01 / 01 / 1970

Robot & Frank

Not so much warm-hearted as it is warmed-over, Robot & Frank may be one of the blandest, mushiest non-rom-com films... READ FULL REVIEW

01 / 01 / 1970

Argo

With Argo, Ben Affleck-the-Director continues his admirable streak of making us forget Ben Affleck-the-Actor who for a period starred in... READ FULL REVIEW

11 / 01 / 2011

ParaNorman

Of the recent animated kiddie spook-fests, such as Frankenweenie and Hotel Transylvania, ParaNorman has the most consistently engaging recalibration of... READ FULL REVIEW