It’s that time again! Yesterday, I made my 2nd appearance on the LAMBcast, this time to take about Peter Jackson’s Hobbit films. They’re near and dear to my heart, but it always seems like everyone else is less forgiving of them, so I went in ready to defend them. Turns out I didn’t really need to, as everyone on the show actually likes the series. Imagine that! I guess they wouldn’t have signed up for the show if they hated the films, but you never know. I’ll have a written review up as soon as I can get it done. Maybe later today or tomorrow. Anyway, give the pod a listen and enjoy!
If you want to do that, I’ve embedded it below! If you wanna subscribe to the show or listen on a portable device you can head to iTunes, or PodOmatic (and for convenience’s sake those links will take you right to the respective LAMBcast page on each service). And don’t forget to subscribe to the show if you like it!
As always, I love feedback, so if you listen to the show let me know what you think! Thanks for listening!
So I did my first podcast! It went well I thought, even if I completely botched my pitch/description for Bewitched, one of my favorite HK movies ever. I’m so ashamed of myself.
Anyway, if you couldn’t tell from the post title, the show is all about movies from our birth years. I was born in 1981, so I was tasked with coming up with my Top Five Favorites from that year. Everyone else on the show (Jay Cluitt, Dan Heaton, Joel Burman, & Bubbawheat) was born in a different year, too, so there’s a whole lot of movies from the ’70s and ’80s briefly discussed.
If you want to listen to the show, the LAMBcast can be found on iTunes if you search for LAMBcast. Or if you feel like listening to it right here, right now, then click this link and away you’ll go into a magical land of mystery! Or not. Click the link and find out!
And as always, I love feedback, so if you listen to the show let me know what you think! And feel free to tell me I’ve got it all wrong about 1981 or share your thoughts on your Top Five from Your Birth Year, as well!
That time is upon us, LAMBs! Once again, the movie blogging community is coming together and deciding who’s doing what the best. I have no reason to suspect that I will get nominated, let alone win, but just in case, here’s the details.
The Lammys are working a bit differently this year, and so far I’m liking the process much better. All eligible LAMB members had a generous period of time to submit blogs they thought fit the bill, and now the nomination list is composed solely of those suggested blogs. Gone are the days of trolling through 1,500 blogs in search of who does the best awards coverage, now people who actually care about awards coverage are doing the work for you! In a way it’s like everyone’s initial ballot is now public, and it streamlines the nomination process considerably. So instead of hoping people know my site and randomly pick it from that sea of 1,500, now I only have to cross my fingers and hope that their wayward mouse-finger might mistakenly check the box next to Silver Emulsion Film Reviews instead of the one by Man, I Love Films, French Toast Sunday or one of the other, legitimately popular blogs!
I’m currently in the running for the following categories:
Best Blog (Because I run a tight ship that is consistently, eclectically awesome! I think…)
Best Movie Genre Blog (See, reviewing stuff no one’s heard of is finally going to pay off!) … (What? I might be disqualified from this category because I don’t think I meet the “50% of posts must be of a certain genre” rule? So reviewing all those genre films that no one’s heard of is all for naught? Say it ain’t so!)
Best Movie Reviewer (Because I can review just about anything you throw at me. Tomatoes, B-Movies, Heads of Lettuce, Blockbusters — I’ll take it all on… and I’m hungry.)
Most Knowledgeable (Cuz I knows so much things about moovies.)
Best Running Feature — Full Moon Series (Because I’m probably the only person crazy enough to actually watch all of these crazy movies from Charles Band’s studio, and they generally make for fun reviews.)
Best Running Feature — Shaw Brothers Series (Because I’m probably the only person crazy enough to actually watch all the Shaw Brothers Martial Arts films in chronological order by original release date. I’m sensing a pattern…)
So if you’ve got a spare vote and you don’t know where to cast it, Silver Emulsion Film Reviews is here for you. We’ll take those unvoted votes and cherish them like they’ve always wanted to be cherished. The life of a vote is a lonely one, all leading up to one special purpose. Don’t let your votes die in the trash-filled gutters of the Internet. Send them our way!
And yes, I might be crazy, but I’m not quite crazy enough to assume that anyone would willingly vote for my site. But if you would, we humbly thank you! Vote early, vote often, and always vote for Silver Emulsion! We’ve got your back! And by “We’ve got your back,” I mean that if you’re ever in a desperate situation where your life is flashing before your eyes and your final thought is, “I wonder how good those Scanners sequels were…” then we’ve got your back. 🙂
For those outside of the movie blogging world, the Lammys are the annual blog awards put on by The Large Association of Movie Blogs AKA The LAMB, so basically the Oscars for movie blogs. And the nomination period has begun! Unfortunately you must be a LAMB to vote, so my legions of undead readers will have to vote me to success someplace else. But if you’re a member, then do I have a pitch for you!
Despite being around and hammering out something like 400 reviews over the past two years, I have a very small following because of my inability to network and self-promote. And if you nominate Silver Emulsion in any of the categories below, I firmly promise to continue the trend of ineffectual marketing, as well as fully providing the category-specific rewards I mention in the pitches below. What can I say, I’ve been inspired by all the Kickstarter posts I’ve read lately. So without further ado, here’s my best foot forward and all that.
Best Blog
I’ll always have the best blog in my heart, but unfortunately you can’t vote for yourself. This is where you come in. In honor of my underdog spirit, if I’m nominated for Best Blog I’ll review 1985’s GYMKATA, 1989’s BEST OF THE BEST, & the entire KARATE KID series.
Best Design
I don’t think I really have a chance in hell of being nominated for anything this category. That being said, if I get nominated I’ll review 1958’s VERTIGO in honor of Saul Bass’s great design work.
Best Community Builder/Networking LAMB
Hahahahaha. This would be the place to enter me as an ironic vote. C’mon, you know you want to. Undermine the system! If I’m nominated I’ll fight the power with a review of 1982’s GANDHI.
Most Prolific
Admittedly, a couple hundred posts a year is nothing within this game; lots of bloggers bust out 400+ posts a year. But 200 reviews in one year is nothing to turn your mouse away from. If I’m nominated I’ll review one of prolific director Takashi Miike’s rare early films: 1992’s wrestling exploitation movie A HUMAN MURDER WEAPON.
Best Blog-a-thon/Meme
Hmmm. I got nothing. I neither created or participated in anything that would fit under this category, so this is the one where I’m really gonna need your help. If I get the nod, I’ll review the entire NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET series.
Funniest Writer
If you’ve laughed at all while reading this, then you know where you must cast your vote. If you need further convincing, perhaps this or this will help. If I get your vote, I’ll resurrect my old idea of reviewing the WEEKEND AT BERNIE’S films, and posting them on the weekend in a series entitled THE WEEKEND AT BERNIE’S. You know you want that.
Brainiac Award
I have my moments, but in my mind I still remain mostly in the shadow of better film critics. But if I get your nomination, I’ll jump headlong into the films of Ingmar Bergman, perhaps WILD STRAWBERRIES and THE VIRGIN SPRING, and try to deliver something insightful.
Best Running Feature
I’ve plugged away at a pace of one review a week on my quest to review every Full Moon feature. If that’s not exciting enough for you, how about a series where I watch all the Shaw Brothers martial arts films in chronological order of release? If you nominate me, in addition to continuing the current series’, I’ll start up my long-awaited and much rumored chronological jaunt through the films of Jean Claude Van-Damme!
Best Ratings System
I use the classic 4 star system, with an extra four stars for B-movies. This allows you to see if a B-Movie is shitty and awesome, or just shitty and boring, easily and quickly. If I get the nomination, I’ll use this amazing, iconoclast rating system to review revered auteur Terrence Malick’s first film BADLANDS, and Troma’s 1987 cult hit REDNECK ZOMBIES.
Best Horror/Sci-Fi Blog
I’m already holding down the fort on horror, but sci-fi could definitely use a shot in the arm. If you get me on the ballot, I’ll review 1982’s BLADE RUNNER and 1981’s SCANNERS.
Best Classic Film Blog
Like sci-fi, I need to beef up the classic film content on the site. That being said, my ongoing series of Sam Fuller film reviews is fun, and most of the Shaw Brothers films would qualify as classics. If I get nominated, I’ll review CASABLANCA, LAWRENCE OF ARABIA and ON THE WATERFRONT.
Best Festival/Awards Coverage
I got nothing. If you nominate me, it’ll because you want me to review the 1993 nominees for Worst Picture at the Razzies: INDECENT PROPOSAL, BODY OF EVIDENCE, CLIFFHANGER, LAST ACTION HERO, & SLIVER.
Best New LAMB
I am eligible for Best New LAMB, and I’ve done nothing but be awesome all year long, so I totally deserve it. If you nominate me, I’ll make good on my site’s tagline and actually review 1941’s CITIZEN KANE and 1984’s THE TOXIC AVENGER.
Best Podcast
I don’t have a podcast, but again I ask you to subvert the system and vote for me. Imagine all that you’ve read, but spoken and in your ear! It would be amazing, let me tell you. In honor of podcasts ruining people’s hearing around the world, if I’m nominated I’ll review 1984’s THIS IS SPINAL TAP & 1979’s ROCK AND ROLL HIGH SCHOOL.
Best Movie Reviewer
I do my best reviewing the movies I do here, and if it’s worthy of a vote, I humbly thank you. And what might I thank you with? Reviews of 2004’s SUBURBAN SASQUATCH, 1996’s DUNSTON CHECKS IN, and the entire PLANET OF THE APES series, that’s what! I’m goin’ ape for your votes!