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BLOG POSTS: Back from the Grave
Welcome to this new, longer and potentially more indulgent incarnation of The B-Roll, a tiny column I started for the now-sadly-defunct street press Volume. Some background: the column (a glorified...
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BLOG POSTS: Strange Encounters Part 1
With film fest season just around the corner, I thought I’d take a look back at the Incredibly Strange Film Festival in its pre-NZFF days. The plan is to revisit – over two, maybe three parts –...
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BLOG POSTS: Strange Encounters (Part 2)
[Part 2 of my revisitation of old Incredibly Strange Film Fest favourites; click here for the first part] Oh man, Anguish. If there’s one ISFF film I’d kill to see on the big screen again it’s this...
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BLOG POSTS: Strange Encounters Part 3
To conclude Strange Encounters, the next three films will be plucked from the non-retro side of the ISFF… The first signs of the festival’s gradual move away from being an all-trash haven can probably...
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BLOG POSTS: To Hal and Back
I’ve been plowing through the silliest TV series I’ve had the strangest pleasure of watching in a while. NBC’s The Event only survived one season, and it’s no surprise why after you’ve seen the pilot:...
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BLOG POSTS: Notes from MIFF 2012
This will be the last one. Next year go somewhere else. Or so I’ve been telling myself for the last few years. And yet again, I found myself returning to Melbourne this winter to watch a bunch of...
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BLOG POSTS: Over The Hill
Been thinking about Walter Hill a lot lately…for three reasons: He’ll soon be releasing his first feature in 11 YEARS, with Bullet to the Head, the Stallone-starring adaptation of the Alexis Nolent...
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BLOG POSTS: Shelf Life #1
Shelf Life will be 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-growing...
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BLOG POSTS: Sourballs and Star Ratings
A couple of weeks ago after my review of Rian Johnson’s time-travel noir Looper was published, two readers (“Edward”, “liz”) left mildly dismissive comments that got me thinking. My knee-jerk reaction...
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BLOG POSTS: Shelf Life #2
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...
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BLOG POSTS: Fake 70′s Crime Movie Box Set
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...
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BLOG POSTS: Shelf Life #3
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...
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BLOG POSTS: I Don’t Go to the Movies to Read
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...
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BLOG POSTS: Shelf Life #4: Unsubtitled Edition
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...
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BLOG POSTS: The B-Roll Year in Review Review 2012
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...
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BLOG POSTS: Shelf Life #5
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...
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BLOG POSTS: Shelf Life #6
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...
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BLOG POSTS: Getting Hitched in the ’80s
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...
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BLOG POSTS: Anthology of Anthorrorlogies
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...
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BLOG POSTS: Shelf Life #7: The Brave & Jess Franco triple dip
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...
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