Amateur Spotlight: Cops & Robbers
When it comes to amateur filmmaking on the internet, whether through YouTube or MySpace Filmmakers or Funny or Die or whatever, I’m a hard man to please. I’m not impressed too easily nor do I laugh as...
View ArticleShort Film Spotlight: Whatever We Do
Here is a cool short film called Whatever We Do that I stumbled upon that was directed by Kevin Connelly (of Entourage fame) back in 2003 for Sundance. It stars the Row Three favorite Robert Downey...
View ArticleMasters in the Making
It was September, 2000 – my first premeditated attempt at the Toronto International Film Festival. At this early date the internet was, at least to me, still a rumour, and with nary a blog nor...
View ArticleColore Non Vedenti Trailer
The full trailer for Jay Cheel‘s horror-comedy short Colore Non Vedenti is embedded below and it is a good one, most especially if you like old school genre flicks along the lines of Mario Bava and...
View ArticleBeautifully heart-wrenching.
Simple, but something that many of us have experienced at one point in our lives. If you’ve ever called yourself a “dog person,” prepare for some raw emotion to get you all misty eyed.
View ArticlePanic Attack!
According to BBC News, Uruguayan director Fede Alvarez has been offered a $30 million contract to make a Hollywood film with Sam Raimi as one of the producers. Numerous studios took notice of the man...
View ArticleAn animated world where running and walking zombies co-exist.
Here’s a short teaser for a film titled AD that was put together by a handful of indie filmmakers who are hoping to make their zombie concept into a feature film. Blending a unique stylized animation...
View ArticleJoseph Gordon-Levitt’s hitRECord Short Film
If you have yet to check out Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s experimental filmmaking community, which he now says has evolved into a “full-fledged professional collaborative production company,” then you’re...
View ArticleShort film Terminus to get feature length adaptation.
Canadian director Trevor Cawood is probably ecstatic to know that a feature-length adaptation of his short film Terminus is being penned by District 9 screenwriter Terri Tatchell. I’m not sure how...
View ArticleShorts Program: Morgan and Destiny’s Eleventeeth Date
It looks like Joseph Gordon-Levitt and those awesome folks over at hitRECord have put together a sequel to the collaborative Sundance short film hit Morgansen’s Date with Destiny. It’s been finished...
View ArticleThe Dark Turtle?
Every year, I make it a point to re-watch the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles feature film – and every year, I come away wondering if they will ever make a family film that is quite as unique. The...
View ArticleThomas Jane returns as the Punisher… in a ‘fan film.’
I wanted to make a fan film for a character I’ve always loved and believed in – a love letter to Frank Castle & his fans. It was an incredible experience with everyone on the project throwing in...
View ArticleShort Stop-Motion Film: Dark Knightfall
Created by Derek Kwok and Henri Wong using Batman toys, here is a rather silly, but still rather cool stop-motion short film about Batman kicking some ass. Like a commenter said on YouTube: “This is...
View ArticleTrailer: Only Daughter
There’s plenty to admire about Aaron Wiederspahn’s Only Daughter. For his first feature film, he had a bigger budget, bigger stars (David Strathairn, Ian Somerhalder, Joseph Mazzello, Jane Adams,...
View ArticleWatch Star Drunk, a modern sci-fi classic.
So, a bunch of writers in Portland, Oregon decided to get together, get drunk, and write a script for an epic sci-fi short film. While I think all of us wannabe writers have done this at one point...
View ArticleJamin Winans made another movie: The Frame - Row Three
Our old site guru John reviewed Ink back in 2009 and gave it a rare four and a half out of five stars, refering to it as a film that “combines beautiful special effects with a large world and a very...
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