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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 #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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