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Filming the holidays with iMovie trailers

Posted on Dec 21, 2011Feb 1, 2022 by Ken Gagne

Apple's iLife iMovie makes it easy to create movie trailers. Affordable cameras and amateur editors can produce videos of their families and holiday memories.

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Summer Shorts: The Life and Death of a Pumpkin

Posted on Jul 23, 2010Feb 1, 2022 by Ken Gagne

Blame Society Productions expands their scope from the comedic stylings of Chad Vader to demonstrate their versatility at the horror genre as well.

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To Die a Funny Death

Posted on Oct 21, 2009Feb 1, 2022 by Ken Gagne

Why do horror films make some of us scream and others laugh? Part of it is brain chemistry; the rest is bad filmmaking.

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Star Trek: The Motion Comic

Posted on Sep 5, 2009Feb 1, 2022 by Ken Gagne

Star Trek: The Motion Comic takes stills from The Original Series and paints over them to make an animated comic book.

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Play Misty For Me

Posted on Apr 17, 2008Feb 1, 2022 by Ken Gagne

I read Stephen King's The Mist concurrent with its adaptation playing in theaters. I was hoping to go right from one to the next, but the movie's cinematic stay was brief, delaying me until last month's DVD release. I am not normally a fan of Stephen King, but I was eager to see film based…

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Legends of the Fall

Posted on Jun 8, 2007Feb 1, 2022 by Ken Gagne

I don't often watch trailers of films I've never heard of (self-defeating, I know), but something about the title of I Am Legend struck me as familiar, so I loaded the preview of Will Smith's latest film. It's about the supposed last man on Earth, wandering a desolate New York City. Oh, but wait —…

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