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Halloween Video Playlist Part 2

October 9, 2010October 12, 2010 Pete Chapman Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Film, Halloween, Joe Medchuck, TIFF Bell Lightbox, U of T2 Comments

The first time I ever saw “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari”, it was in a U of T, Film History class. The teacher, Joe Medchuck (who later went on to be an Executive Producer on “Ghostbusters”) saved his comments for after the screening. He repeated the standard citations about the film. That it was daring in design and revolutionary for its time but added with his typical good humour that although it was revolutionary, there are virtually no films that have been made since that look even remotely like it….

Playstation interview with Sony Canada’s Matt Levitan

October 8, 2010October 13, 2010 Doug Groves 3D, Gran Turismo 5, Hummingbird Centre, interview, Matt Levitan, Metal Gear Solid Rising, PS3, PS3 Move, Resident Evil 6, SCEC, Sony, Sony Centre, Toronto, Tron Evolution1 Comment

This past week, Sony held a public Holiday preview event at the Hummingbird Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, showcasing not only a number of games aiming for the holiday season and beyond, but the PS3 Move and 3D in action. While there, the biggest lineup was probably for Gran Turismo 5, which had a lot of people waiting to get their hands on it. We got a chance to talk with Matt Levitan, Director of Marketing / Public Relations for Sony Computer Entertainment Canada, about how the Move is…

Stupid Gaming Forum Arguments 001

October 8, 2010July 30, 2014 Doug Groves editorial comic, Kinect, Microsoft, PS3, PS3 Move, rgbcomic, Sony, Xbox 3601 Comment

If you’ve spent even a little bit of time reading gaming forums or comments over the past couple of months, you’re probably familiar with the PS3 Move vs Xbox Kinect flame wars that have broken out…

The Essential Guide To Writing A Successful Indie Flick

October 7, 2010October 11, 2010 Pete Chapman Essential guide, indie film, Martin Amis2 Comments

“we are all in some way or another going to Reseda… someday… to die” Screenwriter Blues by Soul Coughing To all of the indie filmmakers in rgbFilter’s readership, a thoughtful and well illustrated article from this summer in The Quietus; an internet music magazine with an excellent film review section. Before you begin work on that great cinematic opus which will define the unvoiced anthem of your generation and the start of your career- remember that (to paraphrase Martin Amis) art is a war against the cliché. Know your enemy…

Toronto, Then and Now: An exercise in photographic reverse-engineering

October 7, 2010October 12, 2010 Danny X photography, Photoshop, then and now, Toronto2 Comments

Came across this interesting experiment today by Damon Schreiber on the Electroblog. Spawned from a random Google search, Schreiber was inspired to take shots of Toronto from 1977 and recreate the same shots in 2007, being as painstakingly meticulous as one can to make sure the content, staging, positioning, depth-of-field, aperture, lighting, and even time of day are accurately reproduced. The origins of the idea, and indeed the source of the original shots of Toronto from 30 years ago, are all explained in great detail on the photoblogger’s site, and the story…

Rogers testing LTE wireless in Ottawa

October 7, 2010October 9, 2010 Doug Groves LTE, Ottawa, press release, Rogers, trial, WiMax1 Comment

Rogers has started running a ‘comprehensive’ trial of it’s LTE wireless network in the nations capital, which could bring download speeds of up to 150 Mbps to mobile devices. LTE is a 4G technology meant to replace existing 3G networks. Both LTE and WiMax, which around for a quite some time now, are just starting to see adoption as standards. At one point there was speculation that LTE would be in Vancouver by the 2010 Olympics, but that never really panned out.

Raindance Canada’s Lo-to-No Budget Filmmaking Class is Back!

October 7, 2010October 7, 2010 kingpinlei Elliot Grove, Lo To No Budget Filmmaking, raindance, Raindance Canada3 Comments

What helped to kick start the careers of Christopher Nolan, Mathew Vaughn, Edgar Wright and Guy Ritchie? They all took the intensive masterclass Lo To No Budget Filmmaking course taught by Toronto-born Elliot Grove. Few people know more filmmakers, or more about filmmaking than the founder of the prestigious Raindance Film Festival.

Best Worst Movie screening tomorrow

October 6, 2010October 7, 2010 Doug Groves Best Worst Movie, canada, double bill, Michael Stephenson, screening, theatre, Troll 21 Comment

Last year, Michael Paul Stephenson released Best Worst Movie, a documentary about the making of 1990’s Troll 2, and the cult following it’s garnered over the years. If you’re one of the (un?)fortunate souls who rented Troll 2 back in the day, you know it sits in that hallowed realm of movies so bad it’s good, and is probably best experienced with a crowd of like-minded individuals who can handle a good portion of cheese in their cinematic diet. I’ll have to admit that I never made it all the…

A shadowy figure reviews Break Up Club

October 5, 2010October 12, 2010 Paul L Break Up Club, Film, laroquod, review, shadowy figure, TIFF, tiff 20101 Comment

While attending the Toronto International Film Festival, I admit it was mere whimsy that kept me checking my server for another hacked file, perhaps referencing one of the films I’d seen. But I never found one, and I had come to feel quite the grandiose fool for suspecting myself the target of some film-reviewing internet conspiracy, based on a single freak occurrence. That is, until last night, when I found this…

Toshiba Satellite A660 3D laptop review

October 4, 2010October 11, 2010 Doug Groves 3D Vision, A660-042, BD, blu ray, Blu Ray 3D, BluRay, Core i7, Intel, Laptop, notebook, Nvidia 3D Vision, PC gaming, review, Toshiba, Toshiba A660, Toshiba A660-042, Toshiba Satellite4 Comments

When a review unit of the Toshiba A660-042 arrived at the studio, I wasn’t sure what to make of it. The A660-042 is Toshiba’s high end Satellite laptop, and comes complete with NVidia’s 3D Vision technology. I had just come off trying Sony’s 3D in the PS3 and remained unimpressed with 3D in the home. So my expectations were set pretty low. I may have been wrong, but I was also surprised at how much more than a ‘3D laptop’ this was…

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Halloween Video Playlist Part 1

October 4, 2010October 6, 2010 Pete Chapman Call Of Cthulhu, Cthulhu, Film, H.P. Lovecraft, H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society, horror, HPLHS, video2 Comments

What will you be watching on Halloween? As a ramp up to All Hallows Eve here is the first in a series of suggestions… If classic science fiction deals with the question, “What if?” then the steam-punk or historical revisionist work amuses itself with, “If only…” When H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu” was published in Weird Tales in 1926, the technology existed to make a silent movie of it, if only anyone had been so inclined. In 2003, a group of H.P. Lovecraft fanatics; a live action role-playing group…

The Start Show – Benjamin Rivers interview

October 2, 2010October 7, 2010 Doug Groves Arcadian Renaissance, Dyad, Hand Eye Society, interview, N+, Nidhogg, Nuit Blanche, Retro Sabotage, Show, The Start Show1 Comment

With the Hand Eye Society’s Arcadian Renaissance happening tonight as part of Nuit Blanche, we figured it would be appropriate to post this interview with The Start Show co-organizer Benjamin Rivers. When we first interviewed him, it was at Fan Expo as a comics creator. We actually had no idea about his involvement with Hand Eye at the time. Well, we know better now. The Start Show, which I hope becomes an annual event at the very least, showcased a number of great indie titles, including N+, Dyad and Spooky Squids’s…