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Definitely, Maybe (2008) with trailer

Imaginary Bitches - The online Soap Opera

Chain Link (2008) - with Trailer

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Paradise (animated short) with movie

October 3rd 2008 05:36

This short animated film won the 2008 International children's film festival. I'm surprised it won at a children's film festival. Although it is animated it isn't really a child's story.

It's about a man who becomes disillusioned with his automated life. It's very creatively made using tin toys from the 1950's. There is one tiny scene after the credits.

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Warlord - (short) includes movie

September 30th 2008 05:53

The short "Warlord" won the Reel Shorts Award at the 2008 SXSW Film Festival. This short was written and directed by David Garrett. It's a dark comedy about a young boy disgusted with his suburban life so he rebels against it.

I loved the descriptions of the world as he saw it....his mother, the witch who served him putrid food (mac and cheese)....

Here is the movie courtesy of The YouTube Screening Room.

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Dark Honeymoon (2008) with trailer

September 28th 2008 08:47

The poster makes it look interesting doesn't it? The very short blurb I read made it sound good too, something about a couple getting married after knowing each other for a short time and how her dark secrets start to come out during the honeymoon. Well as the movie was (finally) ending I thought to myself, wow what a waste of time, I could have been watching a good movie all this time.

After the first ten minutes I was tempted to turn it off, but no I told myself. Just give it a chance and find out what this secret is (and the twist ending I heard about). Well I'll tell you what the secret is. The secret is that the copywriter was better at their job than the screenwriter and director were at theirs.

It is supposed to be about a man who marries a woman he has known for only three weeks. The funny thing is, I don't recall it ever being mentioned in the movie and I'm not about to watch it twice to see if I missed it. But the trailer said three weeks. Then while on their honeymoon, it seems she has a secret and people keep ending up dead all around them.

The majority of the movie is told as flashbacks and flashbacks within flashbacks. It starts with the husband being arrested for a body thats found in the trunk of his car. He's telling his story to the detective through these flashbacks. He tells them his wife is a murderer and is still out there, probably killing even more people.

The first killing happens while the couple is on the way to their honeymoon motel when they stop at a gas station. A rude customer cuts in line and is later found dead in the bathroom. Pretty quickly we find out she has some marriage code that others should be following, otherwise she kills them.

The choreography of the killing scenes is awful. She would swing an object to hit someone with it and you could see about 12 inches of space between the object and the person. This would have been funny if I wasn't so bored waiting for the big twist ending.

Ah the big twist at the ending. It really is at the ending, about the last minute or so of the movie in fact.I won't give it away though in case someone who reads this still decides to watch the movie. Although I really couldn't give it away if I wanted to because it made no sense whatsoever. So I actually did a search of other reviews of this film and I can't find a single one that understands what happened at the end. I'm pretty sure I know what we are supposed to think it means, but that would also mean a good 70% or more of the movie makes no sense.

David O'Malley if you are reading this PLEASE explain WTF the ending meant. I believe ALL of us who watched this will be grateful.

As awful as this movie is I am in a one way happy to see it was made. Because this gives me as well as others hope that even if we don't have talent, it is possible to write a screenplay and get it produced. And that as we have always heard about the biz, it's about who you know, not if you have talent.

The trailer is sort of a behind the scenes video.

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Remakes - why?

September 25th 2008 08:58

A recent discussion on the remake of Halloween got me thinking. Why do filmmakers feel the need to remake perfectly good movies. These movies are almost always inferior to the originals and rarely bring anything new to them

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Definitely, Maybe (2008) with trailer

September 23rd 2008 07:22

Maya Hayes' (Abigail Breslin) parents are getting a divorce and she thinks she may have a way to stop it. She asks her dad, Will Hayes (Ryan Reynolds), to tell her the story of how they met, hoping he'll remember what attracted him to her mother in the first place, and fall in love with her again

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Imaginary Bitches - The online Soap Opera

September 22nd 2008 10:47

Imaginary Bitches is an online soap opera created by Eden Riegel and her husband, Andrew Miller. Eden Riegel, who played Bianca Montgomery on All My Children for a number of years also stars in the online soap

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Weeds - Warning Spoilers

September 20th 2008 05:02

I've watched all 4 seasons over a matter of just a few weeks so maybe it's more noticeable to me, then to someone who has watched it once a week for the past few years, but this show has gotten ridiculous

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Chain Link (2008) - with Trailer

September 17th 2008 00:17

Ever have regrets in your life?

This is another one that was a winner at the Big Bear Lake film festival. It started out a little slow at the beginning but it picked up soon after

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Blind Ambition (2008) - not yet released to the general public

September 15th 2008 01:23

Blind Ambition (2008)

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Mindless guy flicks

September 13th 2008 08:32

Life has been particularly stressful lately so I was looking for something to watch to take my mind off things. I didn't want to watch anything that took any thought whatsoever. I do read reviews on movies I'm interested in and sometimes I will choose a movie based on what I read. The reviews I read on Good Luck Chuck and Forgetting Sarah Marshall weren't exactly positive. So I decided not to watch either one, until one day when I just wanted to watch something funny and mindless

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