Posted by badfilmdiaries on January 16, 2012 0 comments
This episode, the Bad Film Diaries head off to the local multiplex to catch three recent releases.
First up, we discuss Brett Ratner's heist comedy Tower Heist, starring Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy. Then we move onto Steven Spielberg's motion-captured animation The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn. Finally we chat about what was one of our most eagerly anticipated sequels of the past 12 months: Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.
Hope you enjoy the episode! Feedback can either go on this website (below), or can be e-mailed to fanboy@gmail.com.
Posted by badfilmdiaries on December 24, 2011 1 comment
It's the end of the year, and Bad Film Diaries celebrates the holiday season with a special look at three Christmas-themed and set movies: Chris Columbus' Home Alone, Danny Boyle's Millions and Joe Dante's Gremlins. We hope you enjoy it!
Posted by badfilmdiaries on December 7, 2011 1 comment
Episode 20 of the Bad Film Diaries sees Grant and Sonia experiment with a change of format, discussing news, box office and two very different movie trailers to two very similar movies: Mirror Mirror and Snow White and the Huntsman. Don't panic: normal reviews will return in Episode 21 - we just wanted to get this bit out before the news was out of date.
First up: the trailer to Snow White and the Huntsman.
Next: the trailer to Mirror Mirror.
Finally: the trailer to Top Cat; yes, that Top Cat, made for South and Central America. Who knew?
Posted by badfilmdiaries on August 12, 2011 0 comments
In this 19th episode of the Bad Film Diaries, I sit down with Sonia Marcon to discuss films about exorcists and exorcisms, including The Exorcist, The Exorcist II, The Exorcist III: Legion, Exorcist: The Beginning, Dominion, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Stigmata and The Last Exorcism. Sit back, pour yourself a nice glass of wine, light some scented candles, let the power of Christ compel you, and don't vomit onto too many priests.
Posted by badfilmdiaries on August 1, 2011 2 comments
In Episode 18, I talk about Duncan Jones' science fiction drama Moon, Michael Bay's big-budget science fiction sequel Transformers: Dark of the Moon, and in between I do a quick review of Julio Medem's intimate Spanish character drama Room in Rome. I hope you enjoy it.
After an unintended break of three months, the Bad Film Diaries return with reviews of True Grit, The Last Airbender and Agora. Two of these films are brilliant. One of them is... not.
As a special post-main podcast extra, I chat for half an hour with author/critic/actor/wife Sonia Marcon about our recent viewing of the Sam Raimi Spider-Man trilogy on Blu-ray. Hope you enjoy it! Trailers below if you want to see what I'm talking about.
Posted by badfilmdiaries on February 8, 2011 2 comments
Welcome to another episode of the Bad Film Diaries. Episode 16 is dedicated to 2010's animated feature films: I include a Top 10 for the year, as voted for by my Livejournal and Twitter readers/friends, as well as my own reviews of Despicable Me, Tangled and How to Train your Dragon. I hope you enjoy it. If you disagree with any of the rankings, why not leave a comment here or e-mail fanboy@gmail.com and let me know.
By the way, make sure you check out Monster Awareness Month: my lovely and talented wife Sonia Marcon has three reviews coming up in the next four weeks, including The Thing.
Posted by badfilmdiaries on January 27, 2011 0 comments
Welcome back to the Bad Film Diaries, now with a new and improved digital microphone, and reviews of The King's Speech, Tron Legacy, Morning Glory and Ride with the Devil, not to mention a quick shout out to all of the movies I've watched in January.
Posted by badfilmdiaries on December 19, 2010 0 comments
Welcome to Episode 14, where I discuss Belgian animation (A Town Called Panic), American thrillers (Blood Work and True Crime) and British dark fantasy (Solomon Kane). Hope you enjoy it! If you have any comments, either leave them here, e-mail me at fanboy@gmail.com or contact me on Twitter - my username is angriest.
Posted by badfilmdiaries on November 26, 2010 2 comments
In episode #13 of Bad Film Diaries I actually get around to taking a closer look at a genuinely bad film: Robert Longo's 1995 science fiction film Johnny Mnemonic, starring Keanu Reeves, Takeshi Kitano, Ice-T, Henry Rollins and Dolph Lundgren, and based on the 1980 short story by William Gibson. It's a sad, terrible tale of directors in over their heads, careers that become too successful at the worst possible time, and of course everybody's favourite Hollywood activity: rampant studio interference.
This episode, the Bad Film Diaries head off to the local multiplex to catch three recent releases.
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It's the end of the year, and Bad Film Diaries celebrates the holiday season with a special look at three Christmas-themed and set movies: Chris Columbus' Home Alone, Danny Boyle's Millions and Joe Dante's Gremlins. We hope you enjoy it!
