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Project London and modern SciFi – rethinking movies from the ground up
What to do when you have an idea for a SciFi blockbuster with plenty of special effects, talented actors and a script in hand but you just can't get the funding together? If you're the folks at Spiral Productions you politely give the finger to thoughts of funding and script shopping then you go out and make your live action effects laden SciFi blockbuster. If that's not impressive enough, the film looks good and this is coming from a SciFi movie aficionado. Project London is an epic film with huge budget worthy special effects, and plenty of them, created by volunteers on the web and resulting in an actual, watchable, movie.
Continue reading...How to Train Your Dragon, and Why I refuse to pay more for 3D
Monday, April 5, 2010
I was more than pleasantly surprised with how good this movie turned out to be, and I already had high expectations going in. There is one caveat though, I did not see it in 3D, nor really do I recommend 3D over 2D, and I'll tell you why.
Continue reading...Project London: a perfect blend of no money, no Hollywood and tons of mind-blowing special effects
Monday, March 29, 2010
We've covered the soon to be movie phenomenon Project London before here on TC. Back in June of '09 it looked like a very cool idea making its way into realization. Now, it's set to be an actual, real, kick-ass SciFi movie in the near future! How cool is that? One of our celebrity friends, Jen Page is in the cast, which is also an added bonus for everyone.
Continue reading...Tex: Vampire Hunter to screen at Beloit International Film Festival in Wisconsin
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Last year I was able to catch up with Gabriel, filmsmith and all around cool guy who was developing Tex: Vampire Hunter (or) Make Thick My Blood: A Tragedy in One Act. The film had a bunch of stuff going for it right from the outset. Vampires. Cowboys. Jen Page. Blood and gore. All the good stuff.
Continue reading...District 9 – First Thoughts via a late night stream of consciousness
Saturday, August 15, 2009
It's about freaking time. No motherships were downed with a Mac. No ragtag group of scrappy human resistance fighters reconquered the Earth. No evil aliens out to steal our water or women or plutonium. There were no clear winners in this film. I am so glad to see a science fiction film that treats its audience as capable of forming their own opinions, seeing what is on the screen and drawing conclusions that don't have to be spelled out with an awl and sledgehammer.
Continue reading...Attention Science Fiction Fans: The Last of the Free is a movie yearning to be made.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Michael Ozias has a science fiction movie he'd like to make. Unlike other folks (like me, for instance) he's also got a script, a plan and a damned good trailer to back him up. Last of the Free is the story of two adolescents, Izan and Hana, on a quest to escape the misery of the dystopian future they live in. In an oppressive time, where freedom, innovation, and individuality are non-existent, they live for the society but long for themselves. Read on for an interview, production stills and to watch the trailer.
Continue reading...Holy Cow! A SciFi movie that looks intelligent, controversial and fun! District 9
Thursday, July 9, 2009
You may have already seen this new trailer for District 9. If you have, watch it again, it's awesome. If you have not, well feast your eyes my friends. Click through to the article to see the embedded trailer.
Continue reading...Hollywood and the (in)accurate portrayal of medieval life
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Here we’ll toy with the definition of Medieval quite a bit and perhaps replace it entirely by the time this ramble is through. I’m talking about those movies that not only grip you in their poetic throes, but do so with realistic costumes and historical accuracy. They’re few and far between as no film is completely historically accurate and no picture of history is absolutely complete. Also, people won’t sit for twenty minutes while King Richard II treats us to a Medieval French monologue while in the garderobe.
Continue reading...How to create a vampire short film – Tex: Vampire Hunter, the interviews
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Previously I wrote a bit about a new short coming our way soon. Tex: Vampire Hunter or Make Thick My Blood: A Tragedy in One Act. I caught up with Gabriel, the man responsible for the movie and had a chance to talk briefly about this freaking awesome vampire western. Gabriel started his project through the Seattle Film Institute but it seems to have taking on a life of it's own and grown a bit bigger than a final project. Now it's a full fledged, hand-carved wooden bullet vampire slay fest.
Continue reading...Zombie Short Film Festival (ZSFF) of Toronto now accepting submissions, brains.
Monday, July 6, 2009
It seems I just got finished talking about one zombie short and now we're going to be mobbed by lots more. Like a horde of the flesh eating, living dead it's the Zombie Short Film Festival! The Zombie Short Film Festival is the brain-child of Jim Taylor and Cory Laffin, two dudes who live in Toronto. We are hoping to hold it at the Revue Cinema, on Roncesvalles Avenue, in Toronto. Our target date is Friday, October 30th. I talked with Jim Taylor not to long ago and got the skinny on what is going on. There are still some details that need to be put together but it looks like this is coming along nicely!
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