Hello my dear readers!

Welcome to the  Annual Worst Film Week here at fernbyfilms.com. Each year, in September, we take a look at some of the worst films ever made, from recent turkeys of the last 12 months, to films you may have missed from ages ago! We don’t discriminate when it comes to bad films: we want to warn you about them all. So this week, we’ve decided to have a shot at a couple of debacles you may have missed!

This year we’ve invited several of our fellow movie bloggers to join in on the action. Al K Hall over at The Bar None will pour a pint on one an actor he considers to among the very worst, and Above The Line scribe (and frequent commenter here at fernbyfilms.com) Rory will dissect the art of turning what could have been a great film into a rubbish one. One starring two of cinema’s most enduring icons! He’s standing proudly side-by-side with Dan Stephens at Top 10 Films and Robert Nowotny from Need To Vent, who will vent (ha!) their spleens on various cruddy films they’ve seen. Also on board for this special occasion is friend of the site Emma Muhlack, providing a comedic journey to discover the films she loves to hate.

We thank our contributors for their…. er, contributions, and we hope you’ll visit their sites in due course to say howdy! Their sites can be accessed not only here in this post, but also in their links under the “Friends” banner in the sidebar. We usually link to their stuff on our own reviews of similar films anyway, so you’ll always have plenty of unique and intelligent (if not inebriated, Al!) things to read on a film we’ve seen! Give them a friendly visit and prepare to be surprised!!

We’ve also trolled the interweb to bring you this years instalment of the World Worst Film Posters, fresh from their digital uploading across the world. There’s some real shockers there too, let me tell you. Hilarious, but bad! Plus, we’ll look back again at the biggest financial box office bombs of all time, as well as bringing you our official list of the Top Ten Worst Films Ever Made.

By far, though, the most anticipated item of this weeks event is the return of a contributing author we’d thought long gone from these hallowed pages. The Secret Squirrel, the fluffy one him/herself, has come out of retirement for a one-off review on a film he/she has found truly dreadful in recent times. We welcome back the Secret One for this all-star affair, and look forward to his/her review later in the week.

Things officially get under way later today, as I take a look at what I consider to be the single worst films made during the 00′s, UltraViolet. That’s online about lunchtime today, so check back with us and take a look….

So enjoy this weeks worst of the worst. We thoroughly enjoy bringing it to you!!

Rodney T – Worst. Editor. Ever.

Just a quick note to our regular readers that we’ve gone ahead and updated out Transformers 3 page, in the sidebar to the right (or on the logo above). We’ve scabbed some videos from Michael Bay’s official site showing some of the shooting in Chicago a while back, some gob-smackingly awesome practical effects and epic, oh so epic explosions done for real in the middle of a major US city. Only Michael Bay could have pulled this off. Check out those videos, and we’ve also updated the cast list a little. For those of you keeping score on TF3, there’s less than a year to go!!

Half way through 2010 already, and we thought it was time to let our regular readers know a little of what’s on the horizon here at the site.

Currently, we’re working on more reviews of the Aliens franchise, along with our intended look at the two original Predator films. We’re also tentatively hopeful that we’ll finally get our Matrix reviews done too, and considering we promised to get that done a few years back, it’s been a long time coming.

You can expect to see more Worst Films in our annual Worst Film Week event in late September, as well as this years annual “Worst Film Posters” update. This is one of our more popular articles, and we’ll be bringing you more shite from around the world then. Keep an eye out for that. Probably even a review or two of some true turkeys, including John Travolta’s gob-smackingly dreadful Battlefield Earth.

Christmas will no doubt sneak up on us all again this year, which is why we already have our line-up for the holiday season ready to go. This year, we’ll not be uploading a review on Christmas Day, instead putting up a couple of articles on the 24th, including a look at Jim Carrey’s turn as Scrooge in the Zemeckis CGI-fest A Christmas Carol.

Among other ideas flung about the office in the last few weeks, is the possibility of finishing reviews on the films from Pixar, a number of which we haven’t featured on the site yet. We’re also hoping to gain some more staff in the next 6 months, with another push to bring quality writing on board and broaden our outlook on all things film. Anybody reading this who is in any way interested, can contact us directly to nominate their intent.

We’ll be keeping you updated on all things Transformers 3, with our dedicated page set up to handle all news and articles on the next film from director Michael Bay. Not only that, but we’re also going strong on our commitment to follow the production of the two Hobbit movies coming to us thanks to Peter Jackson. We had word from Ian McKellan himself that the Hobbit flicks will start shooting by the end of 2010 at the latest. They ARE going to happen! At the time of writing this, though, there’s still no word on whether Mr Jackson himself will direct the films, or they’ll find somebody else. Stay tuned!!

As always, if you wish to remain up-to-date on all our articles and reviews, subscribe! We love having people subscribe to our site, so if you’re not among our many readers who’ve listed their info with us, do so so we can continue to provide you with the stuff you want! During May we snuck over the 700 post mark, and with around 300+ individual film reviews, we feel we can offer our readers a diverse and interesting blogging experience. Some of you have already noticed that we’ve tweaked some of our standard review stuff, such as listing any major awards films have won, as well as more relevant technical specifications. We’re trying to make our reviews as pertinent to each film as possible, and we hope this helps. We’ll also be linking to more external sites in the coming months, as we endeavour to bring you as many alternative views on a specific film as we can. We’re avoiding mainstream sites where possible, and aiming for more obscure, well researched blogging sites if possible. While you’re at it, you should really check out the action on our Friend websites, particularly with Bryce, Sherry and Co over at Movie Smackdown, while also stopping by The Bar None and saying hello to Al, the proprietor. They’d get a kick out of your visit, I’m sure!

Lastly, this September sees the HQ of fernbyfilms.com change, as Lisa and I are going to be moving to a new premises around that time. While this is happening, be aware that the website may not be updated as regularly with breaking news, but we hope to be back on track in early October should problems arise. There will be updates on this later in the year.

Thanks again to all our loyal readers for sticking by us, and we hope to continue bringing you interesting, controversial and entertaining stuff to read for a long time to come.

Regards

Rodney T – Editor in Chief & Director, Fernby Films.

Some of you eagle-eyed viewers may have noticed a new tab to the right of the page, entitled “The Hobbit”. You’ll be glad to know that henceforth, we’ll be following the progress of the Peter Jackson produced film project to bring us film versions of The Hobbit. Information on the film, the progress and problems, as well as up to date information, will not only be posted on the main page as it comes to hand, but we’ll update the page for a quick listing of every post we make on the subject. We’re dead keen to see the two Hobbit films, which are due to be released in 2012 and 2013, similar to the annual release schedule of the Lord Of The Rings Trilogy back in 2001. In the coming weeks, we’ll also be trying to scour the internet to bring you the most up-to-date info on the project, including the rumoured delays due to the financial problems MGM are having that threaten to derail the project. In the meantime, enjoy our new page, and all the information it will bring you!!

Rodney T – Director, Fernby Films.

It’s only taken a few years, but now fernbyfilms.com has finally upgraded to BluRay High Definition. Recently came to own a new Panasonic 50′ HD Plasma, as well as a Panasonic BluRay player, and for those of you keen to see what the new set-up looks like, here’s a couple of images direct from the Fernby Films headquarters.The sound is sweet full master quality audio, and the new plasma looks an absolute treat!! Fernbyfilms.com goes High Definition!!!

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And so we begin again….

2009 was a great year for us here at fernbyfilms.com, and 2010 is shaping up as another doozy, especially with some of the films due to be released!!

So what’s coming up here at fernbyfilms.com, you ask?

This year, we’re planning something new for those of you into “classic” films. We can’t tell you what it is right now, but we’re working on some pretty controversial material that’ll come online in the next 12 months. It’s all to do with our boredom of the traditional “classics” like Ben Hur, Citizen Kane, and the rest….We kick things off later in January, so stay tuned for that!

Not only that, but re-rendered HD versions of the Fernby Films catalogue will soon be uploaded here at the site, courtesy of YouTube. We’re currently re-uploading various stuff which we had online previously, only in dodgy non-HD versions. So we’ve gone back to the archives, trawled through them, and have begun the process of re-uploading out stuff to YouTube, and we’ll link it all here in due course.

Also on the way, our look at the Jurassic Park trilogy, as well as our much awaited Matrix Anthology investigation, and we take a look at the Alien Quadrilogy towards the end of the year. Along the way we’ll update you with all the Oscar news, as well as keeping track of the major films we’re following, including Transformers 3 (which we have dedicated an entire page to, to bring all the goods together, click on the tag in the sidebar to the right!). We have upgraded to BluRay in 2010 as well, since we’ve recently acquired a HD plasma television and BluRay player over the holiday period.  Our Sony LCD projector has served us well, but now, six years later, it’s time to retire it to the shiny, non-HD meadow to which it so eagerly awaits. There’s plenty of other stuff to enjoy coming your way, but right now, we can’t give you all the details! Otherwise, there’d be no surprise!!

Anyway, we look forward to your continued readership for the next 365 days of 2010.

Rodney T – Director, Fernby Films.

Hi folks. Well, we’ve reached the end of another year already (hardly seems like it’s begun, but there you have it!) and the time has come to once again thrust upon you our thoughts on a couple of seasonal films to fill your stocking. This year, we take a look at the Ben Affleck starrer Surviving Christmas, which you may or may not, as well as the classic Muppet version of A Christmas Carol. We hope you enjoy both our reviews that’ll go online in a couple of days.

Now, aside from those two reviews coming online, we’ll be away from the desk here at fernbyfilms.com for the next week or so, as we’re off to the inlaws for the holiday season. That doesn’t mean we’ll be resting doing nothing, but we won’t be able to attend to your every need and whim while we’re away. Feel free to drop us a line or leave a comment, but be aware there’s nobody here to moderate or answer, so be patient with a reply. We’ll be back on deck in the new year!

Next year, we hope to kick-start our more regular schedule once again, going full tilt at some of the big release films coming up. We;re going to take a look at the Jurassic Park trilogy in early 2010, and I’m working on some reviews for the Matrix Anthology series later in the year as well. It takes a bit of time to get through it all, get my thoughts in order, and upload them, so please be patient and we’ll see what we can do. In the meantime, we’re also trying to re-upload our famous Fernby Films films to YouTube in HD, which we’re in the process of doing as you read this. It’s a slow, laborious process to remaster our stuff, but rest assured that by the middle of 2010, all our stuff will be online somewhere for you to view.

Aside from all that, we hope to continue our semi-regular reviews on films we get to watch, and we hope you enjoy reading them as much as we enjoy writing them.

So, from all of us here at fernbyfilms.com, have a safe and happy Christmas, and a wonderfully joyous New Year celebration. Bring on 2010!!!

Rodney T – Director, Fernby Films.

Howdy folks! Just wanted to mention quickly the father spiffy new site update that took place this past weekend, with many thanks to our trusty website master, Mick Kubler. The new title banner and various other miscellany will serve to spruce up the website a little, hopefully make it more slick and appealing as a professional place to check out film stuff!!! A big thanks to Mick, for all his work (as usual, none of it is my doing!) and for keeping us on the straight and narrow, ie, up and running.

We all know that the new Twilight movie is coming out here in Australia next week; New Moon, for those of you not quite up to speed. My lovely wife, Lisa, is off to see it with a friend and there’s every chance I’ll be relegated to babysitting duty for that, so I won’t be able to bring you my review of it: but I may ask Lisa to give me her thoughts and bring them to you in due course!!! Stay tuned for that one later next week.

Anyway, there’s not much else to report at the moment, so I’ll sign off and go back to whatever it was I was doing!

Rodney T – Director, Fernby Films.

Quick update for you all this evening, if you haven’t seen yet, our new poll for films based upon Dan Brown novels. I suggest you get voting: check out the poll at the bottom of the sidebar to the right. You have the power to decide… well, nothing, but it let’s you know how many people think the way you do….

A litle self-obsessive video-graphy today folks; I’m going to be a little selfish and post the video of my daughter, Mikayla, having a turgle and a giggle. It’s amusing and cute as heck, so enjoy!!!