January 2011
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My Oscar Picks.
I give a shit about the Oscars.
I really do. Even though I know I shouldn’t.
I know there’s a ton of pretentious Hollywood jack-off’s who get a big kick out of all the self-adulation and insider back-slapping. I know it gets political and what should be brief, humble acceptance speeches turn into seven minute long, self-serving diatribes. I know that the fashion element gets...
October 2010
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Paranormal Activity 2 [2010]
It only took $11,000, a nice suburban San Diego home and a tried-and-true gimmick to craft last year’s sleeper, “Paranormal Activity” - a clever first person perspective, shaky-cam “home movie” that told a rather effective haunted house story. The inevitable sequel is hitting theaters a year later and unfortunately, it finds a way to fail in all the ways its...
"The Darkness Within" on DVD!!!
Hey everyone,
My flick “The Darkness Within” is being released on DVD October 30th, 2010.
This is a short run of self-distributed Special Edition DVDs, so we are beginning to pre-sell them directly through our website www.doorelevenproductions.com
The film is a DIY indie effort that’s hit a couple of festivals and been well received by the genre blogs. If you’re a...
June 2010
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Top Ten 90’s Bullies
The 1980’s were a decade that established a very clear template for the beast that is the “Movie Bully”. Be it Ace Merrill (Stand By Me), Heather Chandler (Heathers) or the legendary Biff Tannen (Back To The Future), a certain aesthetic had been laid and cemented for future generations of one-line spewing vermin. But some of the most easily overlooked bullies followed up only a decade later.
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May 2010
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Legion of Doom + Getup Kids + Matchbook Romance =...
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A Nightmare On Elm Street [2010]
Before I attempt to check my biased opinion at the door, allow me to state upfront that I dislike the notion that every classic horror film needs an update. I’m all for a good remake/re-imagining, but I think they should be reserved for films that have not aged well (looking at you “Children of the Corn”). I’ve despised the “Texas Chainsaw Massacre”,...
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April 2010
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March 2010
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"The Darkness Within" review!!! →
Please give this a peep - it’s a review of my flick “The Darkness Within” written by Melanie Addington in her blog The Oxford Film Freak.
I’d be much obliged to any re-posts. =)
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February 2010
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Cop Out [2010]
The Beastie Boys “No Sleep Till Brooklyn” rips up on the soundtrack while Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan walk toward us in slow-motion during the opening images of “Cop Out”, Kevin Smith’s latest flick and his first real foray into big budget studio filmmaking. Smith has spent the better part of the last fifteen years stealing the thunder from anyone who would beat...
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Let's back off Tiger's wood.
One of my favorite websites (cracked.com) recently ran a hilarious article called “If Tiger Woods’ Apology Was Honest.” Definitely give it a read; it’s hysterical and right on the money, in my opinion. After reading it, I felt oddly inspired to weigh in with a few of my own thoughts on the matter.
I’ve admittedly not followed much about what’s been going on with Tiger Woods, although I’ve...
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Shutter Island [2010]
I just got back from my second screening of Martin Scorsese’s latest opus “Shutter Island” (saw it on opening day as well). I truly felt as though I couldn’t give any sort of intelligent criticisms about the film without having seen it for at least a second time. Now that I have, I believe my honest opinions of it have snapped into clearer focus. I will do my best to...
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Magnolia Film Festival →
Set to take place in Starkville, MS. this Thurs-Sat. Our flick “The Darkness Within” will screen. Here’s a little bit of ink from The Dispatch.
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Want to know was going on the year you were born? →
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"Frozen" [2010]
[very minor spoliers may ensue]
“Frozen” is the type of movie that would work great in an elevator pitch because it’s basic premise can be summed up in one simple question - “What would happen if three kids got stuck on a ski-lift after a mountain had closed for the week?”
When I saw the trailer to the film my first reaction was that I thought it looked like...
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January 2010
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"Mystery Team" [2010]
I first heard of Derrick Comedy a few years ago when I stumbled across one of their youtube skits called “Girls Are Not To Be Trusted”, where a character named Kevin uses his film class and all of his classmates short flicks to exact revenge on his cheating girlfriend Melanie (“What the fuck Bellanie!?”) I was instantly a fan. Over the next few months, I’d...
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"The Catcher In The Rye" - Prologue
Just dug this up. For my senior year of highschool, our big final English project was to write a prologue to any of the books that we had read. Basically the goal was to try and somewhat replicate the writing style or the voice of the narrator, but with our own spin on it and also to imagine what may have come before the first chapter.
I naturally went with “Catcher”. Here’s...
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Starting Line - The Drama Summer
Cross your...
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WatchDuality: The Movie
With our second feature “The Darkness Within” recently being picked up to screen at the Magnolia Film Festival, we’ve decided to finally make our first flick “Duality” available (in one piece). We shot this flick throughout 2006 and had this completed cut in June of 2007. It was budgeted at roughly $7,000 and was our first effort at putting...
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