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BLOG POSTS: M. Night Shyamalan Was Aliens
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...
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BLOG POSTS: Shelf Life #9
Aaron Yap dusts off another trio of seldom-seen titles from his pile of unwatched films in the latest edition of Shelf Life. This time around, allow yourselves to be lured in by the wonderfully titled...
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BLOG POSTS: NZIFF in 1993: A Look Back, or Remember When Movies Used To Be $5?
1993 was quite a pivotal year for me as a budding 13-year-old film buff. I saw the first film that profoundly altered my perception of the medium: Falling Down. Although today it’s easy to scoff at...
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BLOG POSTS: Fresh Blood: Five Overlooked Vampire Movies To Sink Your Teeth...
Where the zombie genre has grown somewhat stale, rarely having its limitations challenged nor re-imagined beyond rudimentary splatter, vampires arguably remain the most narratively flexible, most...
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BLOG POSTS: Shelf Life #10
Aaron Yap’s dusting off of seldom seen back catalogue films continues… This time around he watches a coming-of-age Western from the director of Fantastic Voyage; the amazingly-titled Cocaine: One...
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BLOG POSTS: Elysium: The Blockbuster Saviour That Wasn’t
“Elysium’s gonna be the one”, I said, in hopeful anticipation that Neill Blomkamp’s second feature would turn things around for the Modern Blockbuster, which in the last few months, has given us...
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BLOG POSTS: Shelf Life #11
Aaron has dug out another batch of little-known films in his blog, running the gamut from sci-fi horror to incest shocker to truck driving. Pretty much the same scope as the Academy Awards, really…...
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BLOG POSTS: The B-Roll Judges Your Horror Movie
As the deadline approaches for the Make My Horror Movie comp, I thought I’d put on my imaginary producer’s hat and give you my picks for the entries I would, and would not give $200,000 to make....
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BLOG POSTS: Memory is a Giant Mutant Cicada Man
My earliest memories of watching horror movies were, I guess you could say, not exactly pleasant. Scary? Yes. Traumatic? Perhaps just a little. I was maybe around 8 or 10. My dad was watching some...
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BLOG POSTS: Shelf Life #12
Just in time for you to plan your Halloween viewing, Aaron Yap has dusted off a few seldom-seen horror titles in the latest edition of his Shelf Life blog. Will you be able to track all of these down?...
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BLOG POSTS: If ‘Escape Plan’ Sucks, Watch These Prison Flicks
It feels like it’s been ages since we’ve had a solid prison movie, and I’m hankering for one. Recently I’ve been putting my money on the Arnie/Stallone team-up Escape Plan to fill this void, but my...
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BLOG POSTS: Shelf Life #13
Aaron serves up another trio of under-recognised films in this lucky thirteenth edition of Shelf Life. From a canine murder suspect to some culty weirdness and a film that audiences apparently had to...
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BLOG POSTS: The B-Roll Year in Review 2013
With another year drawing to a close Aaron Yap presents “these brutally culled, sheepishly un-ranked bests of what I saw in 2013″. How do they stack up against the best films of 2013 as decided by all...
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BLOG POSTS: Something Weird This Way Comes
The death of Mike Vraney on January 2nd was a real shit way to start the year. As the founder of home video distro company Something Weird, Vraney was responsible for salvaging and preserving a...
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BLOG POSTS: Shelf Life #14
Aaron Yap serves up another trio of under-recognised films in this, the fourteenth edition of Shelf Life. This latest post features a typically intriguing trio of films in which a snowbound...
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BLOG POSTS: Shelf Life #15
Aaron Yap’s back with another batch of hardly-seen, or at the very least, barely-remembered films consigned to the dusty shelves of history – sometimes watching them so you don’t have to… In this...
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BLOG POSTS: Shelf Life #16
Don’t think for a second that Aaron stopped watching movies – these posts may have dried up for a bit, but now he’s back with a fresh batch of not-so-fresh, seldom-seen films that might just tickle...
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BLOG POSTS: DVDs Are Not !#$%ing Dead (Yet)
I took this picture earlier this year and was surprised by how much it depressed me. I haven’t rented anything from a video store in years, but the sight of this empty, abandoned Civic Video outlet in...
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BLOG POSTS: Shelf Life #17
We haven’t heard from Aaron Yap and his collection of back-catalogue rocks and diamonds for a while – but that doesn’t mean he hasn’t been watching ‘em! Read on for what sound like one of the best,...
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BLOG POSTS: Maltin’s BOMBs
Last month film critic Leonard Maltin announced that the 2015 edition of his annual Movie Guide would be the last. As far as I’m concerned, this is as significant as the death of 35mm film projection...
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BLOG POSTS: Keepin’ it Reel: 35mm Scrapin’ By in the Digital Age
Film is dead. Long live film. After the industry hubbub preceding the release of Interstellar a few months ago who knows for sure anymore. It appears, however, the future isn’t as grim as initially...
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BLOG POSTS: The B-Roll’s Top 20 Film Discoveries of 2014
For the last couple of years when I’ve come to do this end-of-year list thing, I overcame the struggle of compiling one list as a definitive statement on My Year of Film by doing an “alternative...
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BLOG POSTS: Fugue States and Death Dreams: Revisiting David Lynch
The last time I saw a David Lynch film an uncanny thing happened — “Lynchian” I guess you could say. About 5 years ago, I held a 35mm screening of Blue Velvet at the Academy Cinemas to raise funds for...
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BLOG POSTS: Shelf Life #18
Continuing to excavate buried cinematic goodies, Aaron Yap dusts off three very different films here, all boasting familiar faces, but traversing territory ranging from nuke phobia to damaged war vets...
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BLOG POSTS: Beyond the Thunderdome: A Maxploitation Catch-up
Here at the B-Roll I’ve probably, on more than one occasion, expressed my fondness for the “Maxploitation” genre. Films like 1990: The Bronx Warriors, After the Fall of New York and Endgame — those...
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BLOG POSTS: Baby: Secret of a Legendarily Bad Dinosaur Movie
Revisiting movies from our childhood can often be an awfully disillusioning thing. Those movies tend to be half-remembered, held frozen in a corner of one’s mind prone to misplaced nostalgia. For many...
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BLOG POSTS: Pulling the Strings: Rick Baker’s Best
Stan Winston. Dick Smith. Tom Savini. Rob Bottin. There’s a reason why these names are recognisable to you movie geeks out there. It’s because they’re artists. Undisputed masters of the special...
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BLOG POSTS: Coulda Been Contenders: A Boxing Movie Checklist
Boxing movies, by design, are some of the dramatically predictable movies around. They tend to follow the same narrative arcs, drumming up conflict through rivalries, hardships, physical trauma,...
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BLOG POSTS: Space on a Shoestring: Five Star Wars Knock-offs To Watch
Star Wars: The Force Awakens is just around the corner, and we know quite a few of you are planning your own Star Wars marathons before seeing Episode VII. But why bother watching the movies you’ve...
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BLOG POSTS: The B-Roll’s Top 36 Film Discoveries of 2015
As the year begins to draw to a close, year-end best-of lists are all over the place. We’ve got one coming too (after seeing the seventh instalment of a long-running series. Yes, Friday the 13th Part...
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