UNKNOWN FILMS

This was actually a short assignment for advertising class. I thought you might be interested... Favorite: Google.com Google had my favorite commercial this year on the Super Bowl because it showed more about what the company is and does than I see a lot of other ads do. Google sells its product by actually using it on screen rather than finding a gimmick and plugging the product in the end. The product was being used %100 of the air time. The commercial told a ... Read More

Hi Everyone in Springfield, MO! I have decided to engage us all in a social media experiment in trust. I'm calling it @SGFtraffic. What is it? @SGFtraffic is a group Twitter account for all the people of Springfield, MO to tweet about ongoing and real time traffic alerts in all of 417land. How is this possible? Simple, we all have the password. That's right, everyone and anyone who DM's me (@UnknownFilms) and has a profile that shows they live in Springfield, MO will ... Read More

Here is the list of the top 11 films that have changed my life...so far. I say so far because there are so many movies I have yet to see and probably just as many I've fogotten about. This list could change at any moment really, in fact when I started writing this post it was a top 10 list. For the most part though I've been consistant about over half of them for a very long time. I chose these eleven ... Read More

Gravestoned (NOV 2009) Painted Pictures Productions Director Michael McWillie I had a change last week, while shooting in Chicagoland, to take the time and watch Gravestoned. I was pleasantly surprised. Many times lower budget comedy flix just don't make the cake, but Gravestoned pulled it off. So many times people forget how important writing is, especially in comedy. The bad movies are loaded with jokes that don't end up being funny unless you're part of some inside group that the filmmakers are in. With a ... Read More

BY NATHAN: Here is a copy of a FaceBook conversation I was having today about the idea that movies that we watch reflect the nature of person watching them. This may also include the film a person would make. For example; you may be a murderer because you like to watch or movies about killing.  The topic is somewhat a big deal to me as I am a filmmaker and people have often ask why I make the films I do.  Tell me what you think. What ... Read More

Last night (21AUG09) when I got to the video store, I wasn’t sure exactly what movie I wanted to watch. I knew I wanted a horror, of course. I love horror and scary movies. Since Megan was out of town and doesn’t always directly watch horror flicks with me (I say directly because sometimes she will, but she doesn’t always look at the TV screen when “watching”) I thought it was a good time to pick one up. Which I’m really not ... Read More

From the beginning of this film I couldn’t tell what to expect. I felt it was alluding to the possibility that this was going to be a horror film with its high sweeping camera angles and strange figures lurking around in the backgrounds. Then it seemed like the story was getting more odd and involved. What was I watching?! Well, I’ll say it was somewhat of a thriller, but don’t get me wrong it comes with a little twist. Detective Paul Grunning (James ... Read More

This 4th of July Megan and I decided to be a little Anti-Social and stay put at home. Instead we have decided to turn off our cell phones and have a movie marathon! That's right, no phone, no email, no texting, no paperwork, no videos, and even........no Twitter!! (OMG!) As part of our movie marathon we signed up for the one month plan of the Movie Gallery Platinum Club (local movie rental place) so we can rent all the movies we want, and ... Read More

After a few attempts to speak with BigStar.tv, I got ahold of them over email. They stated the contest that we entered "Copii la Joacă" into was actually NOT based on viewer votes as they mention on many parts of their website. Rather the winning film was chosen by a panel of BigStar.tv judges that only use the votes if they choose to. (They referred me to a page on their website that states this.) Although we believe this was somewhat misleading, ... Read More

A couple of months ago I was asked by @kellyjkit in a Twitter direct message if we would be interested in reviewing the independent film Lovely By Surprise (@LovelyBySrprise)on our blog. Of course I said yes, so Kelly sent us the screener. Thank you Kelly! If you are interested in watching this movie first hand it will be released on DVD in just a few days on July 7th. After reading through some of my notes I thought maybe you reading them would ... Read More