Hashtag Killer Kills it: Finalist for SXSW 2012 Awards and Shortys

posted 03-01-12 by Julina Tatlock

Yep, we wrote and produced Hashtag Killer — an interactive, immersive digital Psych episode. Below is the link to the narrative game and a list of press links but before you go we gotta tell you: We loved working on this project with USA Network, Universal Cable Productions, Social Samba and the TV show’s team of [...]

Tarantino as Anime

posted 04-29-11 by Max Tedaldi

1992 Reservoir Dogs — Seven Samurai Reservoir Dogs: A rag tag group of characters must come together to protect themselves and uncover what when wrong in the aftermath of a bank heist. Heavy casualties are sustained. Seven Samurai: A rag tag group of characters must come together to protect a village from corrupt bandits. Heavy [...]

How To Build the Perfect Anti-Zombie Fortress

posted 04-26-11 by Max Tedaldi

The rules of Z-Day so proudly championed in Zombieland provide an excellent foundation to begin your zombiepocalypse quest for survival. I emphasize the word foundation because at its heart Zombieland is a road movie. It’s a film that follows a young man’s journey to Pacific Playland as well as his transition into zombie-dismembering adulthood. Apart [...]

Time Loops in Film — An Educational Tool

posted 04-20-11 by Max Tedaldi

Until scientists use their vast collective knowledge to unravel the mysteries of the universe, we mortals are relegated to theorizing and postulating about the possibility of time travel. The prospect offers a multitude of questions and paradoxes that will jumble your brain into a smorgasbord of confusion, anger, and longing. How will we ever learn [...]

13 Assassins Poster DVD Giveaway

posted 04-20-11 by Max Tedaldi

Looking for the perfect accent to that Bushidō themed gaming den you call a bedroom? Need some films to round out your Takeshi Kaneshiro DVD collection? Maybe you just want some swag just to have some more swag? Whatever the reason, 30ninjas has you covered. Prolific filmmaker Takeshi Miike’s (Audition, Ichi the Killer) latest film [...]

Call of Duty: Black Ops Add-On Pack Revealed

posted 04-06-11 by Angelo D'Argenio

Activision is known for putting out a new Call of Duty title every single year. It would seem as if it’s not an intelligent move to get too attached to a Call of Duty game because a new one will just come out to spoil all the fun. Unfortunately, with the latest COD incarnation that [...]

The Drugs are Quick — 5 Drugs We Wish Were Real

posted 04-04-11 by Max Tedaldi

Dune: The Spice Melange Effects: Longer Life Span, Greater Vitality, Heightened Awareness, Can Unlock Prescience in Humans, Secret to Space Travel Side Effects: Addictive, Withdrawal is Fatal, Bluer Than Blue Eyes, Potential Deformities The Spice is only found on one planet in the entire universe, yet it is the sole conduit through which space travel [...]

The Top “Hey! Well Excuuuuuuse Me Princess!” Movies

posted 04-01-11 by Max Tedaldi

She’s the stuck up princess born with both a silver spoon and silver tongue in her mouth. He’s the charming rapscallion from the wrong side of the tracks trying to make a name for himself in a world that has already counted him out. The top ten Hey! Well Excuuuuuuuuuse Me Princess! Movies

Psyched for Source Code

posted 03-31-11 by Max Tedaldi

[the following is an excerpt from an article published on May 10, 2010. The original article can be viewed by clicking here] Duncan Jones may only have one full feature length film to his name but it is also one of the best sci-fi films to come out in the last decade. Moon blended the [...]

Would Hollywood Really Make Another Doom Movie?

posted 03-10-11 by Angelo D'Argenio

Do you remember the original movie that came out in 2005? You do? Geez how do you sleep at night. Famous for being indescribably bad, the original Doom took everything that was horrible about the Doom video game, combined it with everything that is horrible about Hollywood action movies, and just to be sure that [...]

The Experience of Kevin Smith’s Red State Tour — Day 1: Radio City Music Hall

posted 03-07-11 by Angelo D'Argenio

When I stepped into Radio City Music Hall for the first day of the Red State tour and took my seat crammed between two people clutching their belongings to their chests as if they were curling into the fetal position, I never thought that I myself would spend much of the night in that same [...]

Robot + X = Win!

posted 02-07-11 by Max Tedaldi

RoBatman I stumbled upon this blog today and my brain nearly exploded from a nerd coolness explosion aneurysm. It may only be a proof of concept, but mark my words, we will be seeing Robatman / Cybord Batman comic in the near future. Robatman is like Batman but without all of that pansy emotion. He [...]

Congratulations to the Butterworths! This Year’s WGA Paul Selvin Award Winners

posted 02-03-11 by Max Tedaldi

The Paul Selvin Award is given to that WGA member(s) whose script “best embodies the spirit of constitutional and civil rights and liberties, which are indispensable to the survival of free writers everywhere, and to whose defense Paul Selvin committed his professional life. This year’s Paul Selvin Award has just been bestowed upon Fair Game‘s [...]

Build Your Own Transformer

posted 02-03-11 by Max Tedaldi

Transformers are no longer limited to childrens toys, 80s cartoons, and explosion-laden Michael Bay films. Over the past few years transformers have invaded different sects of popular culture from computers to commercials to even architecture. With SFX software improving faster than Sly Stallone in a training montage it’s no wonder that transformers are more prevalent [...]

Easter Eggs — You Didn’t Even Know You Didn’t Know About Them

posted 02-02-11 by Max Tedaldi

Simpsons See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. Little did you know that McBain was an actual movie in more ways than one. First, there is the 1991 Christopher Walken, Michael Ironside actioner McBain, and secondly there is the easter egg mini-movie inside The Simpsons show itself. If you take clips of McBain [...]