Archive for April, 2006

Giant Shark Movie! nuff said.

I don't know what it is; King-Kong, Godzilla (the toho films, not the american version), Lake Placid, and especially Jaws. I just love 'big creature' movies, I could watch them all day and I don't know why. Maybe it reminds me of a simpler time, a time when men were men, you go in the [...]

‘Hard Candy’ Clips Online

Six little short clips from the 'let's torture a Pedo' movie 'Hard Candy', Have been posted up over at moviesonline.ca. Although not giving much more away than the trailer, Candy is already running on a limited release in the states, and the reviews have been mixed. Although any film with a subject matter as contentious [...]

Fourth Video Blog from ‘Hot Fuzz’

I'm really only posting these, to try and give people a heads-up,they should really have an rss feed telling you when a new one is out, or submit them to itunes as a video podcast. Bunch of slackers. Anyway. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost goof around, play up to the camera, and announce 'It's a [...]

What is Mann Directing Next?

I thought we'd just take a little look at what's in the pipeline for the mann of the hour. I'll try to get through it with as few puns as possible.
Arms and the ManA Project that has been in the pipeline since before Miami Vice was announced, based around the true story of  the world's [...]

Double-tap to the Chest, Killshot.

This clip needs no explanation.

Collateral and Cinematography for Nerds.

One of my favourite sites to dig through when i’m bored is American Cinematographer, A heavily nerdy magazine, talking about lenses, f.stops and depths of field. Their website archives all their back issues (from 1998 to the present) check it out here There’s a beuatiful article about shooting collateral and everything they had to deal [...]

The Greatest Running Gun Battle EVER.

If you haven’t seen ‘Heat’ you’re an idiot. Go and buy it now. Andy ‘Bravo to Zero’ McNabb was a combat consultant on the set, trained everyone involved in the gun battle in the use of ‘power weapons’ hence Deniro and Kilmer are totally badass shots.
Then there’s the fact that in order to make the [...]