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BLOG POSTS: Skid Marks: Cool Car Movies For Your Consideration
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...
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BLOG POSTS: Shelf Life #8
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...
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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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