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Running the Gammatar

2014 Directed By Joe Kramer This a great little short. I've never seen this take on the giant monster movie before. Give it a look and improve your weekend. 

Red Band Trailer for Nightcrawler

This trailer has made Nightcrawler one of my most highly anticipated films of the year. Fortunately we'll only need to wait one more week.  NSFW

The ABCs of Death 2 directors choose the greatest screen deaths of all time

ABCs of Death 2 consists of 26 short films that each build toward different, creative and totally messed-up ways of killing off people. It's got zombies and wizards and assassins and killer hamburgers, and that's just naming a small, small handful of the insanity in store. But what do the minds behind the movies actually think are the best movie deaths of all time? What nightmares fueled their own imaginations? Well, wonder no more thanks to this supercut of the director's picks, which contains some very famous and also very obscure selections.

Grace

2009 Directed By Paul Solet Starring Jordan Ladd and Samantha Ferris Complications with birth have declined dramatically in the last century but they are still somewhat common. And yet the idea of a stillborn birth is so deeply tragic and saddening that most of us are clueless when it comes to even discussing the topic let alone dealing with it on any personal  or profound level. Simply put the subject is taboo. We all know it happens. It happens to all of us, in that it has happened to us or someone we know and yet still we don't talk about it. To take this premise as a starting point for a horror film is a stroke of genius. Madeline Matheson (Ladd) is given the worst news possible for an expectant mother , the news that all parents dread, that she has lost her unborn child. Her decision to carry the child to term is one that showed a remarkable level of commitment to this child and firmly establishes the type of parent she would make. Following the birth of her

A Joyful Slog

2012 This is a music documentary looking at some of Ireland's DIY bands and culture over the last twenty years or so. It is a Dublin Community Television production and was made by the Community Of Independents collective that works with the channel. Featuring live footage and audio of various Irish artists as well as insightful interviews with some of the people that have been involved in the growth of this scene. A Joyful Slog from DCTV on Vimeo .

The Last Ice Merchant Documentary Short

2012 Directed by Sandy Patch Taken from the films website Twice a week for over half a century, Baltazar Ushca has hiked up the slopes of Mount Chimborazo, the tallest mountain in Ecuador, to harvest glacial ice that covers the highest altitudes of this dormant volcano. In the past, up to forty ice merchants made the journey up the mountain to mine the ice; today, however, Baltazar works alone. Even his brothers, Gregorio and Juan, both raised as ice merchants, have retired from the mountain to find more steady work. The Last Ice Merchant tells a story of cultural change and indigenous lifestyle through the perspectives of three brothers who have dealt with change in different ways. I wanted to portray the characters as the dignified people that they are and to show the very human story of their circumstances — to make a movie that would portray the indigenous community positively for both an outside audience, and also for the community itself. I was first introduced to B

John Wick episode of War Machine Vs War Horse or lets talk about dogs

In this episode of War Machine vs. War Horse, the dog dies. This also is the premise for Keanu Reeves to go on a rampage of revenge in the new release JOHN WICK, as do we against cinema that portrays this act that is known to produce tears the world over. The two dog hating films we take to task are 2009's HACHI and 2012's FRANKENWEENIE. Thankfully the former has the very handsome Richard Gere, and the latter is a visual feast of a film even without the beauty of Gere.