From The Editor – 4.7.12

Morning folks! Happy Independence Day to all our American friends! Have fun on your national holiday!

Well, we’re about to notch up yet another milestone here at fernbyfilms.com! Tomorrow, we’ll be publishing our 500th official film/BluRay review! Yes, I know! 500! Such a magical number – and I recall that not-too-long-ago moment we published number 400 (Resident Evil: Afterlife), back in early June of 2011.  Ahh, those were simpler times. Ahem. As a bit of a larf, I thought it might be cool to revisit the first ever review here at the site, which was published waaay back at the end of 2007 – the very end, actually: here’s the first ever review article we published, a quartet of mini-reviews for Bourne Ultimatum, Sunshine, Shooter and The Descent. Two days later, we went and published the first ever major review we wrote, on Transformers. What a way to kick off 2008, right?

While we’re here, we might as well cover off on something you may have noticed creeping in to some of our recent reviews – each of our review logos (at the top of each review, duh!) comes with a number somewhere inside our main logo; this number will indicate the order in which each review is published. It won’t always reflect the order of writing, because behind the scenes here we often push older reviews waiting to go online back in favor of more recent, more popular films being reviewed and us wanting to get those reviews up quicker. To make things easier, starting with tomorrow’s review, we’ll also be including the date each review was written, so you can see how “old” each article is. Because we work so far in advance here at fernbyfilms.com, it’s usually anywhere from 2 to 5 months between writing a review, and its publication here on the site. A snazzy little logo in each review will give you all the information on which order each review comes in, and when each one was actually written. I stole the concept for this little numbering logo from the comics I read when I was younger (actually, I only stopped reading comics when I got married, back in 2005) because I thought the comic book numbering system and logo looked “official”…. so if you’re wondering – yes, that’s where I got the idea.

While we’re on the subject of change, there’s a big change coming in 2013 (I know, it’s very early to be discussing it!) that will effect the visual aesthetic of the site. I don’t want to spoil the surprise too early, but we’re hard at work on some major site-wide changes that I think you’ll be impressed by. Consider this an early, early tease.

For those of you wondering what the next few months hold, it’s going to be quite exciting. At the end of this month, we’re presenting our reviews of the first three Tinker Bell films – parents will be delighted! – and we also let rip on the original cinema classic, 1933’s King Kong. Throw in a look at Igor, the first installment of Breaking Dawn from the Twilight Saga, another few Greatest Of The Modern Age lists, and a couple of other surprises, and we can almost guarantee you’ll be interested with what’s on the way! By the time you read this, we’ll also be well into preparation for this year’s Worst Film Week, which will be coming up in September, so get your hate organized ready to vent at some of the worst of the worst sure to come your way. Check out some of our previous WFW events in the archive page on the sidebar to the right, so you can get into the mood!

500 reviews, eh? Here’s to the next 500! Drinks are on me!

Rodney T – EIC, fernbyfilms.com

Who wrote this?

Rodney Twelftree

“Some people say I like films. Those people are wrong. I *love* films.” – Me. I said this.

Rodney has been writing about films for well over two decades, appreciates a good wine, the love of his wife and kids, and the affection of his dog and cats. He has a fondness of cheesy 90’s action and classic Hollywood, hates that physical media is disappearing, and wishes somebody would make a high-budget series of The Neverending Story.

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