The peoples' democratic blog of Matt Hayward

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 [...]

Luckily I was invited to a premiere of this movie last night. It must’ve been one of the first screenings. Because everybodie’s mobile phone was minded for us outside the cinema.
If you haven’t heard anything about this movie, it’s by the ‘40 Year Old Virgin’ and ‘Knocked Up’ crew, although a bit of a departure [...]

Man I have been overdosing lately on crazy docos. And this one is by far the most bizarre. Have you ever seen two nerds in high school take each other to task in a presentation. Ripping each other to pieces with bane minutia, footnotes and factoids to try and find wholes in the other’s argument? [...]

I’ll keep this short and sweet. COAS is an absolute corker. They follow around 4 semi professional actors that impersonate super heroes on Hollywood boulevard, taking photos with tourists for a living. One is a compulsive and dedicated Superman; one a Clooney lookalike with a dirty past and a worse temper; one the perfect cheerleader [...]

Finally a doco that jumps off the shelves at you saying ‘buy me, buy me!’ With the graffitied uzi on the cover it delivers its fair share of gung ho violence. What it doesn’t truly delivery is the first class raconteuring the production company claim they excel at.
Firstly a bit of background. This is a [...]

Brilliantly honest, suburban and quirky, Juno is the next arthouse flick from the middle of nowhere. Juno is a sixteen year old high school girl that falls pregnant to her best friend, a dorky athletics champ played by Michael Cera from the great Arrested Development. Having too much heart to deal with abortion, she decides [...]

The problem with that big box with the silver screen in the living room is it doesn’t have a keyboard. It’s dumb. It can’t tell you the weather. It has no idea that there’s a far more useful box upstairs called, the computer. Seldom the domain of the female of the species, the computer connects [...]

Holy Crap this movie is out there. I mean after all, it’s meant to be based on one guy’s real life story and if ANYONE has lived this life, they deserve a Nobel Peace Prize!
If it sounds like some tame Weird Al Jankovic comedy thing, you’re way off. It’s a hip, period drama set in [...]

What a weekend for warts and all cinema. First of all we had Shortbus. A little sexual epic/human drama and at times acrobatic triumph of a movie! I would say more about the acrobatics, but let’s just say there’s some ‘interesting’ masturbation scenes and i’ll leave the rest to your imagination.  You will know within [...]

A mate from Canadia came by this little pearler in the states a few months ago. Thankfully, it’s everything an Adam Sandler movie should be. Why do I mention Sandler you ask? Because a cursory look at the credits and you’ll see that the movie is by Happy Gilmour productions. And it’s all the better [...]