September 23, 2020, Posted in  Film Frak Reviews, The Film Frak Podcast Comments: No comments

Film Frak Comfort Food Podcast: Episode 4 – The Bill & Ted Trilogy

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Welcome Frakkers, *gestures with hand over heart*

Film Frak Adam and Jon head to San Dimas for a most triumphant return to their Comfort Food Podcast series. (Watch our previous Episode where we answer the eternal question Terminator vs T2, which is better HERE)

Strange things were afoot at the Circle-K when we watched BILL & TED’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE and BILL & TED’S BOGUS JOURNEY before screening the brand new chapter BILL & TED: FACE THE MUSIC...

September 18, 2020, Posted in  Film Frak Interviews, The Film Frak Podcast Comments: No comments

Film Frak Podcast Interview Special: A NIGHT OF HORROR INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL – Festival Co-Director & Head of Programming Bryn Tilly

Festival Co-Director & Head of Programming for A NIGHT OF HORROR INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Bryn Tilly join’s us via Zoom to chat all things Fest.

Running from September 24 – 26 2020 at the Actor’s Center Australia in Leichardt Sydney. This year’s line-up promises laughs, gasps and trembling with the following titles screening along with 2 sessions of blood curdling global shorts showcases.

• STAY OUT STAY ALVE + BELOW
• ARTIK + HUNGRY JOE
• THE OTHER LAMB + THE OUTSIDER
• THE DEAD ONES
• DIABLO ROJO (PTY) + MORBUS
• THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE KILLER
• WE’RE NOT HERE TO FUCK SPIDERS

This one was a unique indulgence...

August 26, 2020, Posted in  Film Frak Reviews, From the John Doe Vault Comments: No comments

From The Vault: Sean Connery’s 15 Best Films

On this the day of Sir Sean Connery’s 90^th Birthday Film Frak Adam is sharing a FROM THE VAULT post written 13 years ago as a 77th Birthday and Retirement celebration.

It’s been a long while since Film Frak Adam contributed a FROM THE VAULT post so here’s a brief explanation. Before Film Frak Adam was the Frakker he was John Doe and like everything else in this universe all cinema itself is interconnected on a molecular level. Slowly over time he plans to import many of his older reviews over to this new site under the banner of FROM THE VAULT. The format is simple, anytime he reviews a film here and it can be thematically (actor, Director, narrative etc) linked to a previous critique from the old site he will be sharing...

August 5, 2020, Posted in  The Film Frak Podcast Comments: No comments

FILM FRAK PODCAST 37: 2020 Catch-Up Part 4

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Welcome to episode 37 of the Film Frak Podcast 

Are you frakkers ready for another round of Film Frak Video Podcasting?

We haven’t done a show “real” since early June so it’s time to catch up on some 2020 releases we’ve been screening.

This episode we open with a chat about the Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti romantic time loop comedy PALM SPRINGS. We follow that with 2 Netflix originals. The immortal super-heroes flick starring Charlize Theron, THE OLD GUARD and Spike Lee’s latest DA 5 BLOODS...

July 27, 2020, Posted in  Film Frak Reviews, The Film Frak Podcast Comments: No comments

Film Frak Comfort Food Podcast: Episode 3 – The Terminator vs Terminator 2: Judgement Day

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There’s a storm coming Frakkers,

Film Frak Adam and Jon continue their Comfort Food Flicks series with something a little different.

In Episode 3 we throw down about a subject that has torn them apart since we met. We are going to try and answer one of the most argued questions in the history of cinema, which is the superior film THE TERMINATOR (1984) or TERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT DAY

Listen, and understand! Film Frak is out there! We can’t be bargained with. We can’t be reasoned with. We don’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And we absolutely will not stop… ever, until we have an answer!

Every cinema lover ha...

July 22, 2020, Posted in  Film Frak Interviews, The Film Frak Podcast Comments: No comments

Film Frak Interview Special: ALL HAIL THE POPCORN KING Director Hansi Oppenheimer

Film Frak Adam & Jon sit down via Zoom with Squee Projects Founder, writer/Producer/Director and all-round fangirl Hansi Oppenheimer to discuss her latest film ALL HAIL THE POPCORN KING. A documentary feature about Screenwriter and Author Joe R Lansdale of BUBBA HO-TEP, COLD IN JULY and HAP & LEONARD fame.

Talking all things Lansdale including Bruce Campbell, Mick Garris and Don Coscarelli as well as the Squee Project and documentary production in general this was truly a pleasure.

It’s been many moons since we last did an interview. For those interested it was October 2018 with production Designer extraordinaire Joe Alves (JAWS, ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND)...

July 20, 2020, Posted in  Film Frak Reviews, Film Trailers Comments: No comments

ALL HAIL THE POPCORN KING (2020)

A review by Adam Lovett

Director: Hansi Oppenheimer

Starring: Joe R.Lansdale, Bruce Campbell, James Purefoy, Joe Hill, Don Coscarelli, Mick Garris, Amber Benson

ALL HAIL THE POPCORN KING is a no bullshit documentary about a no bullshit man. Made by a fan for fans.

Prolific pulp Author and screenwriter Joe R. Lansdale has written over 50 novels and 500 short stories in the western, horror, mystery and science fiction genres. He’s penned comics and written for TV and film including BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES and MASTERS OF HORROR. Has had his work adapted memorably to the screen with the likes of BUBBA HO-TEP, COLD IN JULY and the TV series HAP & LEONARD...

July 15, 2020, Posted in  Film Frak Reviews Comments: No comments

FRANCES FERGUSON (2019)

Screening as part of the 2020 Perth Revelation Film Festival’s COUCHED online line-up from July 9th-19th.  To purchase tickets, see schedules and additional information visit the official page HERE 

Frances Ferguson (2020)

A review by Adam Lovett

Writer/Director: Bob Byington

Starring: Kaley Wheless, Nick Offerman, Martin Starr, Jennifer Prediger, Keith Poulson, John Gatins

“Was this breaking the law?” our narrator asks repeatedly in this probing dark satire. It’s a question that can be aimed at multiple targets. Taking a dry ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT mockumentary approach this disquieting comedy is genuinely uncomfortable while amusing with its sensationalism free approach to a real-life sex scandal...

July 14, 2020, Posted in  Film Lists, The Film Frak Podcast Comments: No comments

Film Frak Comfort Food Podcast: Episode 2

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Greetings Frakkers.

Welcome to our second retro podcast special Comfort Food Flicks series.

You can watch Part 1 HERE

For those who missed last week’s launch. Here’s a quick rundown of what we are talking about.

During these “unprecedented” times of global turmoil and isolation we decided to list some of our Comfort Food Flicks.

Different from Favourites these are like the Chicken Soup of cinema to us. The films Jon and I turn to in challenging times to escape into the magical world of moving pictures. Movies we know inside out that have become part of our DNA. They are more like old friends at this point there to make us smile and remind us why we are addicted to the medium.

This episode Jon talks...

July 13, 2020, Posted in  Film Frak Reviews Comments: No comments

SIBERIA (2020)

Screening as part of the 2020 Perth Revelation Film Festival’s COUCHED online line-up from July 9th-19th. To purchase tickets, see schedules and additional information visit the official page HERE 

Siberia (2020)

A review by Adam Lovett

Writer/Director: Abel Ferrara
Starring: Willem Dafoe, Dounia Sichov, Simon McBurney, Laurent Arnatsiaq

“I want to see if we can really film dreams—our fears, our regrets, our nostalgia.” – Abel Ferrara for Sundance 

Our dreams seldom if ever make complete sense in the waking hours. More often than not they are utterly bewildering. That doesn’t mean we don’t find reward in the search for their meaning or recalling certain searing images from within them...