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Jumpcut: Best Before June 15th

June 6, 2009June 6, 2009 Paul L 2 Comments

And by ‘best before’ I mean ‘nonexistent after’… Most of my personal film projects are primarily linked at Jumpcut. I kinda knew this was coming lately, in fact, I should have seen the writing on the wall the moment Jumpcut was bigfished by the aimless monstrosity that is Yahoo!, but I procrastinated and it’s still going to be a huge pain in the ass. Time to start chasing down them dead links! Dear Jumpcut user, After careful consideration, we will be officially closing the Jumpcut.com site on June 15, 2009….

What went wrong with Terminator Salvation?

May 29, 2009June 1, 2009 drsquid terminator18 Comments

After seeing the movie with Doug and Dave, I couldn’t help thinking about what might have been. The movie, in my humble opinion, was not as bad as the reviews had suggested, but it certainly could have been better. In the months prior to the film’s release there were rumours leaked online about a controversial earlier draft of the script — existing prior to Christian Bale’s involvement with the film — which sounded far superior to the one that ended up on the big screen, and now chud.com has the…

Let Him Be film premiere

May 27, 2009 Doug Groves let him be0 comment

This Friday May 29th marks the North American premiere of the film Let Him Be, playing at the AMC theatre in downtown Toronto. I had a chance to see this move about a year ago at a friends & family screening (and it was under a different title back then). Let Him Be is a fascinating film about two undergrad film students Tim Bennett & Kathleen Joyce who discover a long thought to be dead rock icon living in a remote part of Canada. It all begins when Tim discovers…

Fan Expo 2009 guests announced, including Bruce Campbell

That time of year is almost upon us (August 28th-30th), the return of Fan Expo to Toronto, one of the biggest conventions in North America. Fan Expo covers Comics, Sci-Fi, Horror, Anime and Gaming – last year rgbFilter brought you some exclusive interviews and show coverage, that you can see by clicking on our Fan Expo 2008 banner to the right, and this year we hope to do it again…Groovy. The 2009 guest lists are already up at the Fan Expo website, and as the picture above hints, the one…

7 Summer Movies I can’t wait to see

May 5, 2009 Danny X 1 Comment

Wolverine has come and gone, Star Trek is a mere 2 days away, and it looks like John Connor and Optimus Prime are poised to duke it out over who will own the summer blockbuster season of 2009. Of course, I’m excited about all of the above (Wolverine notwithstanding), but it’s important to note that this year’s summer movie season looks to bear some interesting fruit. A quick stumble through Quicktime’s Trailers site lead me to conclude that these are the top 7 movies I feel like I really shouldn’t…

Cydia Apps for a Time Walker’s Phone II

May 5, 2009May 6, 2009 Paul L 6 Comments

This iPhone screenshot is from an episode of a TV show called Flashpoint, which I discovered on my hard drive, and with which I discovered that the most common video container in the world (anything ending in .AVI), is unplayable on this ‘iPhone’ handset! It took a little bit of screwing with to get right, but there is an MPlayer app on Cydia you can use to watch this forbidden format. With a few skips and jumps, and provided you don’t sic it on anything too hi-rez, it works. But…

Red Ray Player demoed at NAB

April 27, 2009April 27, 2009 Doug Groves NAB, Red, Red Ray4 Comments

The 2009 NAB expo has wrapped up, and one of the more interesting products demoed to a small group has to be REDs Red Ray Player, a $1000 playback device that will display 4K resolution video from standard DVDs. To give you an idea of the resolution, most cinemas currently project film at 2K resolution, which is 2048 lines of horizontal resolution, or about twice as much as 1080p. What makes the Red Ray player even more impressive is not the resolution, but it’s compression technology, uses wavelets to describe…

Ash Is Back

April 14, 2009July 25, 2009 Doug Groves Lightwave, Magpie, newtek0 comment

Another couple of weeks, and another ashrants.com video. Once again, the animation is done with Lightwave, the lip sync with Magpie Pro and editing done with Newtek’s SpeedEDIT, which is a subset of the software that comes with the TriCaster hardware. The music is a jam performed by the Asphalt Potato Jam band. Enjoy!

Edgar Wright at the Bloor Cinema

March 31, 2009July 28, 2009 Doug Groves Bloor Cinema, Edgar Wright, interview, Toronto10 Comments

Alex caught up with Edgar Wright, director of Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz, when he was at the Bloor Cinema during the Wright Stuff event, a series of films curated for the Bloor by Edgar Wright. The Wright Stuff wraps up Sunday April 12th.

“Film Is In The Air” At Raindance Canada

March 31, 2009April 17, 2009 Doug Groves event, indie, raindance2 Comments

Toronto native Elliot Grove, Britain’s premier independent film champion and the founder of Raindance Canada, returns to Toronto from April 20-26, to host Raindance Canada’s spring courses. The week of events will end with the intensive two day Master-Class Write and Sell the HOT Script on Saturday April 25 and Sunday April 26, 2009 from 9:30am – 6pm. Write and Sell The Hot Script is a step-by-step guide to constructing the best story possible—be it a screenplay, short story, or novel. Grove, who has taught his Write and Sell the…

Edgar Wright presents a Marathon of Spaced at the Bloor

March 20, 2009March 26, 2009 drsquid Bloor Cinema, Edgar Wright, Spaced1 Comment

Edgar Wright, here in Toronto filming his version of the comic Scott Pilgrim, continues his ‘Wright Stuff’ film festival at the Bloor Cinema in Toronto this weekend with a Marathon screening of all the Spaced TV series episodes – Before Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, there was Spaced. Originally broadcast from 1999 to 2001 on the UK’s Channel 4, director Edgar Wright will be marking the series’ 10th anniversary with a marathon screening of all 14 episodes at Toronto’s Bloor Cinema — FREE for Bloor members and “The…