The peoples’ blog of Matt Hayward

Lately I’ve been addicted to the Vice Broadcasting Service (vbs.tv). Not only have they been responsible for epic movies like Heavy Metal in Baghdad, but they relentlessly travel the world showing you places you’d never thought you’d see in your life. I’m talking Liberia, the sewer kids of Colombia, heavy metal mobs on Aboriginal reservations; [...]

For those who think political satire is dead, check this out. This movie is Yes Minister for a new generation. One can’t also help but think that they’ve seen the Australian ABC TV show ‘The Hollowmen’ as well. They are a hair’s breath away from each other. At the end of the day though, that [...]

With a title like this, it’s worth pointing out that Dave Gorman is a British comedian, not a Conservative polly. Or even worse, Max Mosley. It also happens to be a great road trip documentary. As if a cross-country road trip in a foreign country wasn’t enough of trial by fire, he vows not to [...]

Firstly, rest in peace big fella. But let’s cut to the chase. I’ve only ever known of Bud as the nice old, cauliflower eared, cute, fuzzy wuzzy grandad. At one point I wondered if there was a law that Bud MUST star in every piece of film made in Australia. From playing the hero QC [...]

This is one pretty confrontational chick flick. Well at least on the surface it is. Truth be known, it’s a bit more than that. Rachael Getting Married entwines addiction, grief and the joy of a wedding all in one.
Yup Anne Hathaway plays a recovering junkie that shows up for her sister’s wedding and somehow uses [...]

Despite having watched this to get out of seeing a chick flick on Valentine’s day, this was actually pretty good! It has the obligatory Stifler from American pie and also the chick who plays the psychiatrist on Two and a Half Men.
It’s classic situation comedy with the frustrated guy in his thirties getting angry, stuffing [...]

A few months back I wrote about this documentary on Ozsploitation movies. It was to my mind the most surprising and best documentary of 2008, opening your eyes to a genre of seventies and eighties drive in flicks I never knew existed. Well great news! Not only is the doco itself available on DVD, with [...]

Have you yearned to know what Aussie cinema was like in the seventies? Did you even know there was one? Did you know that for love nor money, you can’t find a decent print of Mad Max in Australia, because they were all played to buggery at the drive ins? All this and more is [...]

Another top bloke bites the dust. George was in his early seventies but worked at a prolific pace until death. Most gen X and Yers would know him from Kevin Smith movies such as Dogma and Jersey Girl.
Whilst he may not have been the pioneer that Lenny Bruce was, he made a huge contribution to [...]

OMFG! I am so friggin’ excited. A movie about Lemmy is all but in the can and will be released in 2009. In the teaser alone, there’s Slash (who must be the Lemmy in training), Dave Grohl, Alice Cooper, Mick Jones and some other guy from the Clash and of course the other two blokes [...]