I've been meaning to make a post like this for a while.
Like many people, I have websites that I turn to for reviews on shit what I like. These are a few of my absolute favourites.
Steve Clark's I Hate Movies is a movie review column on a livejournal. This guy watches a phenomenal amount of movies and then writes funny, often hostile reviews. He seems to especially love weird-ass shit and anything harsh, from Ingmar Bergman to Takashi Miike, from Werner Herzog to Troma. Even better, he knows what he hates and why he hates it. I often disagree but am always entertained.
Byron Crawford, the mindset of a champion is the best hip-hop site on the web, no homo. Bol is savage, homophobic, racist, sexist, and very very funny. He claims his inflammatory comments are all a put-on but I'm not so sure. In any case he really knows his music (every album I've bought on his recommendation has been fappo) and has managed to genuinely piss off a number of real hip-hop stars, most prominently Kanye West who he has a real hate hard-on for (no homo).
Russell Brown's Hard News is my NZ political blog of choice. Russell knows his shit, knows how to write, and is just the right sort of leftie geek. Yeah so he's also a professional journalist everywhere from The Listener to National Radio.
John Fallon's Arrow In the Head is my one-stop shop for horror movies. He breaks movies down with useful categories like Gore, Directing, Soundtrack, and the ever-important T&A. He's funny, rude and knowledgeable -- and he turned me on to Dante Tomaselli. He's got some pretty good reviews.
Bruce Sterling's Beyond the Beyond is my international blog of choice. He links to all sorts of nice stuff. Sterling is one of my current all-round gurus; he's come a long way from the '80s cyberpunk stuff. Shame his blog is so UGLY, but I guess I can blame Wired for that, computer geeks have no sense of style.
Posted by pearce at March 22, 2006 5:23 PM