Watch This: Animated Short AZUREUS RISING

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Well its been nearly 5 weeks since I posted something on the blog but here we go again and we kick off with a little cracker of a animated sci-fi short called AZUREUS RISING.

Yep you will see alot of cliches and similar stuff from other movies with Matrix looking like its biggest inspiration but this is not a dig at this movie. The movie world be it animated or real world the movie genres have been used so much so its no surprise you'll see cliches but its what you do with them and create them into something different is what makes movies great and the team behind Azureus have done that.

Whats good about this is that this short movie hasn't taken the gritty realism route many of the current crop of movies have taken. The movies main character is a freedom fighter but who he is fighting we dont really know but the whole thing just looks so good we dont really care!!!

There is a plan to possibly expand this into a trilogy possibly as a trilogy of shorts or even full length live actions, check out the offical website here,

cinehouse - still existing

hello all
as you'll may notice its been a while since i posted something here on the blog, there is a reason. Unfortunately for a while ive been unemployed and fortunately for this blog ive been able to give the blog alot of time but now since april 16th Ive been working but working overseas in Kos Greece.
Im on the island working the summer there and yes its great (apart for today where its rain, thunder and lightening) but I dont have 24 hour internet access and with my job its been extremely hard to get internet access but i hope to the blog started very shortly. If im unable to do it I plan for the blog to be restarted end of summer, but hey im going to give it a go now!!! Ive also had to stop my main blog the peoples movies but my is for that is to restart end of summer, so your talking end of october time to kick off winter countdown!!!
thank you so much for everyone who still supports the blogs its hard intense but fun work and i wont be giving up and if october is when i have to restart have a great summer and enjoy the movies the summer has to offer

Short Film: Guy Maddin's NIGHT MAYOR

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Below is the latest short film from Guy Maddin called NIGHT MAYOR.

The film is about Nihad Ademi, an inventor from Bosnia who immigrates to Winnipeg. He builds, with his children, a machine called the "Telemodium" which uses the waves of Aurora Borealis to broadcast footage of "every day life for every day people." The footage is shown in different parts of Canada, coast to coast. Eventually, people begin to take to these images and start broadcasting their own, that is, until the police get involved.

The movie lasts 13 minutes and is shot in glorious black and white like his previous work of My Winnepeg a documentary about Maddin's home city. The whole style I would describe as experimental, original shot in the style of the black & white movies of the early 1900's  and this short movie is online courtesy of NFB -National Film Board of Canada and they describe the auteur as "an imaginative cinematic riff on the significance of a public film producer." Guy Maddin is very new to me and when I watched this short I got the feeling I liked what I was watching but if you asked me why I couldn't say but he is a very proud Canadian and his previous cv contains alot of Canadianesque projects, check it out Night Mayor below;