Dark Academy

Tales from the Backwoods is inspired by serial thrillers like Twilight Zone/Hitchcock Presents but gives it a redneck twist. Oodles of great footage from the series in their kickstarter video.  Check it out!

If you are a screenwriter, these are excellent tips that analyze screenwriting tricks used by the Coen Bros for The Big Lebowski. 

If you've seen The Raid, then you will probably love this claymation parody.  If you haven't- this three minute movie pretty much sums it up. Watch!

Shot on a Canon 7D,

this is the line my favorite filmstudies professor ends a semester worth of lectures with.

This short film is a trippy dark comedy by Victor Tadashi, and my favorite among a number of shorts made by undergraduate students featured at the Visions Film Festival.

Studied Indian filmmaking in my World Film studies class today. This clip, coming from the movie Chandramukhi, is representative of how over the top their action sequences can get. Very funny and clever stuff here.

Below are the stills I worked from.  The first one was a taken from a very long pan down a steep cliff, I stacked 5 stills to get all of the action in one image.  The second is taken from fall guy. Any guess on the third still? The last is Mickey doing a bronco ride.

Hitchcock on Happiness.

I have no clue how this could have been pulled off. I can't see how this could have been safe filmmaking.

Nazis from the moon?! This is going to be terrible and I'm going to pay to see it.