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New Raindance Canada Workshops and Events!

April 20, 2010April 20, 2010 kingpinlei Film, filmmaking, movie, moviemaking, pitch, Raindance Canada, screenwriting, scripting, workshop2 Comments

Want to start making a film but don’t know where to start? You’re in luck! Raindance Canada –the Canadian arm of Raindance U.K.– is offering a new round of workshops for the budding screenwriters and filmmakers. I’ve attended practically all of their workshops and can tell you, the information they offer in their seminars are invaluable to anyone wanting to write, direct, or produce their own films. The cool thing is that their workshops are taught by industry professionals from the U.K. and abroad. And to top it off, they…

New Rogers 500gb HD PVR released

April 20, 2010April 20, 2010 drsquid 8642HD, Bell, Cisco, DLNA, HD, MoCA, MPEG-4, PVR, Rogers, TV3 Comments

Rogers 8300 HD PVR has been on the market for over 5 years now, and a lot of users have been wondering when Rogers would release an updated HD PVR. The 8300’s capacity and technology is definitely well past being cutting edge, and with the release Bell’s dual tuner 9241 HD PVR last year the pressure was on for Rogers to bring out something new to compete with it. Finally, after a long wait, Rogers announced the availability of their new Cisco 8642HD PVR on their Redboard blog. Strangely even…

Video games can’t be art? Why Ebert is wrong and should gamers care?

April 19, 2010April 19, 2010 Doug Groves AC II, art, Assassin's Creed II, critique, editorial, Kellee Santiago, Mass Effect II, photography, Roger Ebert, TED X, TEDx, Venice5 Comments

Back in 2005, famed film critic Roger Ebert posited that ‘video games can be elegant, subtle, sophisticated, challenging and visually wonderful”, but “the nature of the medium prevents it from moving beyond craftsmanship to the stature of art’, or, as many online at the time boiled it down, ‘Roger Ebert hates video games’. Numerous video game fans replied to that column, and to this day I’ve seen references to his ‘hatred’ crop up from time to time. This is usually when he pans a movie that a gamer liked, with…

Enter the ViewPoint Film Challenge #3

April 19, 2010April 19, 2010 drsquid Challenge, festival, Film, Filmmaker, indie, short time, Toronto, VFC, ViewPoint1 Comment

The Toronto based ViewPoint Film Challenge gives filmmakers the challenge of creating a short film based on the same script. After the success of the first and second challenges, in 2008 and 2009, the third edition of this unique film event returns – after the script is released on May 1st the directors only have 1 month to complete their film! The ViewPoint Film Challenge is all about sharing the same pages of dialogue that we provide, allowing you to focus on your own unique point of view and compare…

Short film “The Gift” becoming a feature?

April 10, 2010April 10, 2010 Doug Groves 21:9, Carl Erik Rinsch, Cinema TV, Philips, Ridley Scott, Small, The Gift4 Comments

Remember the crazy days of January 2009, when Philips announced its Cinema TV with the odd ball 21:9 aspect ratio? If you don’t recall it, you may remember the way cool short they commissioned to promote it, Carousel. Well, Philips has continued to use short films to promote the Cinema TV. This time, in an experiment with Ridley Scott Associates, Philips presents 5 short films, each using the same short bit of dialogue with very different results, from Dreamworks-esque animation to gritty dystopian action thriller. The project, though certainly very…

Bell bringing 3D Masters to Canada

April 9, 2010April 9, 2010 Doug Groves 3D, Bell, HD, Samsung, satellite3 Comments

Bell announced today that it will broadcast a 3D HD version of the Masters golf tournament, at least in a limited time frame. This marks the first 3D HD broadcast in Canada since January’s Consumer Electronics Show rode the Avatar wave to make 3D an important check box in the tech specs. Bell will be showing 2 hours of the tournament in 3D, between 5pm and 7pm Eastern, on channel 1000. To watch it, you have to be a Bell HD subscriber with the right package, and don’t bother looking…

Very Cool: Class 3 Outbreak Flash Zombie RTS!

April 9, 2010 drsquid Binary Space, Flash, game, iPad, RTS, Zombies5 Comments

Built on their first release, the Zombie Outbreak Simulator, Binary Space has release their first game, the Zombie RTS Class 3 Outbreak. The game is a browser based flash game, running over Google maps, where you control 3 squads of police to try to hold back a zombie invasion. Like many flash games the graphics and gameplay are deceptively simple, but the game is highly addictive, and under the hood Class 3 is surpising sophisticated: Game designer, Jay Weston says, “We set the bar pretty high with our previous release,…

Cineform closes, at least for now

April 8, 2010April 8, 2010 Doug Groves Cineforum, Reg Hartt, Toronto0 comment

If you’ve spent any time looking at the myriad posters put up in downtown Toronto, you’ve surely seen the black and white letter-sized flyers for some of Reg Hartt’s film festivals and presentations, such as The Sex & Violence Cartoon Festival, Triumph Of The Will and Kid Dracula (which uses Radiohead’s Kid A as a soundtrack for F.W. Murno’s Nosferatu). Some of these Reg Hartt presentations have been around for decades. Now, Reg Hartt has had to shut down his unique film location Cineforum, after receiving a notice of violation…

Neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow, nor Cylons, nor old Jimi Hendrix songs…

April 8, 2010April 10, 2010 Danny X BSG, car, car mods, Starbuck, Viper0 comment

It’s been done before, countless times; people with more time and money on their hands than they know what do do with turning cars into iconic movie props. Sometimes the results are spectacular; sometimes, not so much. This latest contender is from Dean Shorey, the master ride mechanic for Seabreeze Amusement Park in Rochester, NY. This too-cool-for-words homage to Starbuck’s weapon of choice, made from an old mail truck, is also road-worthy, so it’s not only sporty, but practical, too. …right? Some more pix, as well as a story about…

The Pure Pwnage Showcase Premiere

April 2, 2010April 2, 2010 Doug Groves Bloor Cinema, Jarett Cale, Joel Gardiner, Pure Pwnage, Showcase5 Comments

Ryan and Dave head over to the Bloor Cinema to check out the TV premiere screening of Pure Pwnage. Though there were no wedding proposals this time around, Ryan did get a chance to talk to Jarett Cale and Joel Gardiner about working on a TV schedule and a lot more.

AMC greenlights ‘The Walking Dead’ TV series

March 30, 2010March 31, 2010 drsquid AMC, Comics, Image Comics, Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead, TV, Zombies1 Comment

Following on from the news in January that AMC had ordered the pilot for a TV series of the best genre comic ever, ‘The Walking Dead’, comes the annoncement that a six episode series has been greenlit by AMC. The project has been on a fast track after AMC won a bidding war last August for the rights to the comic. AMC must have a lot of confidence in Frank Darabont’s vision for the series after greenlighting a whole season while the pilot is still being cast. Hopefully this vision…

Evil Dead in 60 seconds

March 17, 2010 Doug Groves claymation, Evil Dead, NSFW, video0 comment

Fake blood spurting out of clay figures not safe at your work? Then you can consider this NSFW. Otherwise, as anyone who knows me can tell you, I’m a huge Evil Dead fan. Alex sent me this link of a claymation retelling of the first film, which was made by Lee Hardcastle over at MissingHead. Video is