The Coming

Boy, oh boy!
Do I have some sort of treat for you guys!!!

Chad Costen, one of my instructors from VFS has just finished shooting his first feature film! Something that he's been working on for the last 3 or so years now.

The Coming is an epic science fiction film "about man's fear of himself."
I was lucky enough to read the script when it was still in the preproduction stages of development, and I can tell you first hand that if the written word and the recently released trailer are any indication, this is going to be a solid film, through and through! independent

So without further a due, please enjoy the trailer for Chad Costen's The Coming!

OFFICIAL WEBSITE!


I'm also going to be linking it permanently on the right side of the site, so you can go back to it later.

Glode Trottin'

Remember those pictures from Thailand that I thought that I lost forever!? Well my dear mommy found them on her computer at home! ALL OF THEM!!!! YAAAAAAAYYYY!!!!! ...Just thought that I'd let you know so you guys could stop worrying so much....

Anyways, ugh.... here's a travel map of all the places I've been so far... kinda cool, so I thought I'd post it, just for the sheer hell of it:

1. Venice, Italy


2. Chiang Mai, Thailand


3. Florence, Italy


4. Ko Phi Phi Le, Thailand


5. Lucerne, Switzerland


6. Munich, Germany


7. Rawai, Thailand


8. Innsbruck, Austria


9. Roseau, Dominica


10. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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Grimaldi's Asylum

I'll keep this short.

I went to this comedy show that my roommate (Marc-Anthony Massiah) is part of this Friday. Basically, long story short, it was awesome and hilarious, and well worth the price of admission. So everybody check it out at http://grimaldisasylum.com/ and go see it, it is a treat!

Scheduled to be playing for.... well... a long time.... with new shows, sketches and material weekly.

Info from the website:

The Show will be at the Tom Lee Theatre (929 Granville St)

• February 8 to April 5, 2008
• Four shows per week
• Friday and Saturday nights
• 7:00pm - 8:00pm, 9:00pm - 10:00pm shows
• $12 a show

Each week will have individual themes and no repeat performances

PEACE!

Don't Quit the Day Job

Guess who just got a job!
....

Wrong... ME! :D

So now I end my lazy binge of doing absolutely nothing and trying to find work, with a part-time job. Now I know what you're thinking; "Part-time? What a slacker..." Well yeah, there is some validity in that, but at present there is some uncertainty as to a possible job in India working on another feature film. I can't really say much more than that at the time being, but I'll keep you posted as to further developments in that area. And with this position possibly available to me within the next couple of months, I'm looking for something that I can leave if I need too without making too big of waves. (Hopefully the folks at the Dueck Car Dealership don't see this... :\ )

So now I've got a means of making some money to sustain me until hopefully this India thing works out, and if not, there's the possibility of a full-time position opening up within a month. So I'm covered either way.

That's the scoop for today, peace ya' later!

Mathew's Movie Review: Brazil

I've had a fair amount of free time lately, so I've been spending a bit of it watching movies. Not just crap movies -- largely this could go hand-in-hand with "new releases" -- but unique, influential, recognized, sometimes underappreciated films that have in some way impacted the world of cinema today.

Brazil (1985) is definitely one of the most unique films that I've ever seen. Directed and co-written by Terry Gilliam (Twelve Monkeys, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and the Monty Python films, among others), the film takes place in a grim, industrialized retro-future, ruled by a bureaucratic, totalitarian government, similar to that of George Orwell's 1984. Instead of demonizing any of the antagonistic characters though, Gilliam and his writers have chosen to satirize them and their compulsive necessity to "do their job" and conform to the order that is being imposed on them by the unquestionable status quo of society.

The dark comedy of the material is almost hard to laugh at sometimes when you realize that even though this is meant to me an farcical exaggeration, some of the things in the film aren't too far away from the truth.

The cinematography of the film is absolutely brilliant, and that coupled with the intricately detailed and imaginative sets, your eyes will remain glue to the screen for the whole two-and-a-half hours. The style of the film borrows from a plethora of different cinema genres and melds then perfectly for the dramatic and thematic needs of the scene.

The story of the film twists and turns in many unexpected directions, facilitated by its repeated theme of redundancy and randomness, keeping the plot interesting and constantly in a state of unfolding right before you eyes up until the very end. Only a minor lag in the pacing occurs at about the 2/3rd mark, but things pick up promptly and with more intensity than before. This could even be seen as a necessary break the audience to recuperate and regain their concentration.

All-in-all this movie is absolutely SPECTAFABULAWESOME!!!!!
I give it a rating of 9.9/10!
If you haven't seen it, go rent it. If you've already seen it, rent it again. If you currently watching it, then go rent a second copy and play the two side by side, one in standard forward play, the other in reverse!

Happy film watching!