Hey everybody, Thank God it’s Friday, huh?!
Fridays bring us another blog spotlight, and this week it’s our buddy Brian Roan and his gang over at DearFilm.net! Click through and I’ll let you know why you should check his site out! 
DearFilm.net is run by Brian, with contributions from three others (including Rick Sandlas, who’s been known to comment up here! Had to give him a shout), and they post up about movies using a unique style – Each review they do is a letter written to the movie in question. Sometimes it’s hate mail (“The Devil Inside”) Sometimes it’s a love letter (“The Grey”), but it’s always an avenue to write from the first person, and express feelings about a film in a straightforward fashion.
Recent reviews include Silent House, Act of Valor, Gone, and Jeff Who Lives at Home, which opens this weekend! They also do DVD reviews… a couple of notable recent reviews are True Grit, Zatôichi and Spartacus . Check ‘em out!
Of course, Brian’s review of “The Grey” legendarily caught director Joe Carnahan’s attention, and became his favorite review of the movie. For that reason alone it’s a must read!
The site has also begun the journey into podcasting, with Radio DearFilm! They just launched their inaugural podcast, featuring an in depth review of “Silent House”, with our buddy and frequent commenter here at FMR Andy, of A Constant Visual Feast, and Fogs of Fogs’ Movie Reviews… wait, what? LOL Yup! That’s me. This is actually the third podcast now that Brian and I have been on together (the other two being “The Muppets” Lambcast and Film Yarn’s episode on “The Grey”), and it’s always worked out great. This episode is no exception. You can tell this is going to be a really strong podcast going forward… Give it a listen!
So, I encourage you to check out DearFilm.net, I’m sure you’ll enjoy it, and please give the first episode of “Outside the Envelope” a listen to hear Brian, Andy and I talk Community, “John Carter”, “Silent House” and more!!
Thanks Fogs for the kind words we sure appreciate it. Much obliged for the shout too but I must give credit where its due as your ‘Tossin It Out There’ has become a new habit and works as top notch discussion starter! Keep it
But hey, no problem, I like “Dear Film” and I’ve podcasted now with Brian several times, and hang out with him on twitter and whatnot. Are you out ther, btw? You on twitter? LMK… I mean, for all I know we follow each other already and Im spacing, but… LOL you know how it is.
yeah I do follow you a while now as @filmric so now you know. The 10 yr old wanted a larger than life character for twitter so I blame him!
Whatever, LOL. I’m just chilling in the Batmobile, there’s no standards.
Anyhow, followed back now! See you out there!
Interesting site.
I just had a vision of you doing your posts in that format, Brik, and the letters you’d write. LOL
That would be some interesting mail right there!
I did a letter once to an anime character that I hated.
http://awesomelyshitty.wordpress.com/2011/04/09/genshiken/
hmmmm letters to anime characters. I think that’s a whole different rabbit hole
Knowing Brik? LOL. That’s probably putting it lightly…
Throwing in my two cents for DearFilm myself. Awesome site, awesome guys. Give ‘em some love!
I think you forgot “Awesome podcast”
but that’s ok, people get the idea.
Well, I thought the podcast thing would be self-serving given my involvement last week. But yeah. Awesome podcast!
Didn’t stop me any
Great site; I recall the now famous ‘Grey’ when you podcasted with Fredo and Brian Roan at http://filmyarn.com/post/17768682138. (BTW, there doesn’t seem to be a commenting area (by design I suppose) on his site though you can share on facebook and twitter.)
There is a fine post by DearFilm.net about Jason Siegel’s (The Muppets star) upcoming project that sounds solid at http://dearfilm.net/dear-jeff-who-lives-at-home/. Good follow.
Oh, cool, glad you got to listen to that one. I’m not sure how he’s got his feedback set up… But I think the consensus is that it all went well. I know we were all thrilled it got in front of Joe C.
This one was good too. Silent House isn’t half the movie, but the debate provides interesting discussion, and once again we got contributions from someone who had touched based with the directors (Andy this time).
So give it a listen if you get a chance, it came out really well!
Fantastic podcast. Very interesting debate as well. I now know what Andrew’s voice sounds like LOL. Pretty Epic
I’m glad Fogs was the hater, because I love that passion you bring across when you don’t like something. Very fun site as well.
Ha!! I’ll try to remember that… I tend to lean towards discussing things Im a big FAN of.
Glad you checked it out though, thanks. And yeah, I always enjoy that too, finding out what people you read sound like…
Beautiful site and selection Fogs. You certainly know how to pick them! Wish I have the courage to Podcast! You are doing an awesome job with it! You guys really need your own national radio show.
On having the courage to podcast, its not that scary! Wehn you’re in the middle of it, its just like talking on the phone, thats all…
But then, finally, these are national, actually. International! Anyone can listen! Now the trick is to get people’s attention to it, you know?
Anyways, thank you as always, we love the kind words, thanks for checking it out!!
Agreed. Need to get more attention to your podcasts. I listen on Sundays when I have more time. Do you have a widget? I would love to put a link to the podcasts on my site.
Do I have a widget? Hmmm… I dont know! LOL
Let me look into it and I’ll let you know, obviously I’d appreciate that very much
Not a problem! You are AWESOME!