Background Watching is a new feature on The Moviebarn, where I recommend films you’ve already seen in order to discuss events that you may or may not be interested in. Enjoy!
Awards season is a wild time, a time when a picture ain’t a picture unless it has historical, political or religious heft, and the time when the mythical ‘Day-Lewis’ rises from its slumber to present another character built on an unhealthy desire to ‘live the part’. If there’s one film to watch before Oscar night to get you in the mood, it’s Christopher Guest’s 2006 comedy, For Your Consideration. Keep reading →
Categories: On Air
Tagged: academy award, background watching, christopher guest, for your consideration, fresh air, oscars
“It’s the most wonderful time of the year.” For you lot, Christmas and New Year offer a chance to eat lots, stock up on gadgets and DVDs for the next year, and generally hang out. For people who spend their time talking about anything in particular, it can be a bit of a pain. That’s because you, the public, expect/demand, an end-of-year review list rundown top 100 bonanza. But just to be a bit contrary, I won’t give you a simple run-through of the top films of the year. Instead, we’re on a trip back in time, to the land called 2008, to look at A YEAR IN FILM!!! This one, that hasn’t even finished yet… Keep reading →
Categories: On Air · Review
Tagged: 2008, al pacino, angelina jolie, animation, australia, baz luhrmann, ben stiller, best of 2008, bond, brad pitt, burn after reading, coen brothers, daniel day-lewis, dark knight, diablo cody, ellen page, ethan coen, film, garth jennings, george bush, george clooney, gerard butler, gomorrah, guy ritchie, heath ledger, high school musical, hugh jackman, indiana jones 4, iron man, james mcavoy, javier bardem, joel coen, josh brolin, juno, liam neeson, m night shyamalan, madagascar 2, mamma mia, man on wire, meet the spartans, michael cera, movies, narnia, nicole kidman, no country for old men, oliver stone, penguins, persepolis, pixar, prince caspian, quantum of solace, righteous kill, robert de niro, robert downey jr, rocknrolla, sacha baron cohen, sex and the city, son of rambow, step brothers, taken, the happening, the orphanage, the wackness, there will be blood, timur bekmambetov, tropic thunder, vantage point, W, wall-e, waltz with bashir, wanted
Back in the day, the monsters in movies may have looked a bit shambolic. That’s it. I’m not going anywhere else with this, they looked ridiculous. But they did have a certain charm, and that’s what today’s Moviebarn Award celebrates – Which of these classic old-school monsters is your favourite? Keep reading →
Categories: On Air
Tagged: b-movie, godzilla, king kong, old, retro, the thing
