I present to you as a special peek into my other projects (most of which revolve around a very cool theatre in Greater Boston), an entry into the Providence, Rhode Island 48 hour film project, Monday the 13th, by Nature’s Credit Card Productions (a new team we put together earlier this year). You can watch other 48 hour films at www.48.tv.
Our movie was selected for Best of Providence and won the Audience Award at the Best of Providence showing as well as the “Best Rhose Island movie” for its references and jokes about Providence and the area, which they like to encourage.
To keep you honest, every team in the city gets the same prop, character and line of dialog, and each team picks a genre out of a hat. For us, it was:
Character — A hairdresser named Monty Chaney
Line — “If you see him again, tell me.”
Prop — A pear
Our genre — Horror
Enjoy!
Don’t know what the 48 hour film project is and want to find out? Already know what it is and want to talk about it? Just want to bash my movie? DO SO . . . after the jump –
The moral values that have held together this country and this world are in an advanced stage of decay. From schools to shops to our own homes, we turn on one another — race against race, religion against religion, nation against nation and brother against brother. Feuds great and small divide us. I say, no more!
In such times, we need strong leadership! We need a Lord Protector who guides with his gut to dispel this discord and disagreement that has sapped the world’s vitality and capacity for greatness! I am proud to say, I am that Lord Protector. And I have a plan.
Our true enemy is excessive and destructive emotional freedom — recklessly granted in the well-meaning spirit of progress, it has been abused to the point of madness.
It’s time for a new moral authority, one of tenderness, true, but one supported by the only thing human beings seem to understand — force.
Have you seen the May 5 cover of Time Magazine? Christopher Lambert has seen it, and it’s difficult to tell whether he’s amused or not.
Hey, he’s Christopher Lambert — the man doesn’t have a ton of range. But he does know how to chop someone’s head off.
And now, apparently, so do the season’s Democratically ordained Princes of the Universe, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Oh, I know the temptation is to dismiss the citizenry of the overthinkingit phantasmagoria — guys like Connor MacLeod of the clan MacLeod (who has a lifetime membership) — but if current trends continue, you’re likely to hear a lot more of this guy in the darnedest places.
Amid a large number of semi-relevant digressions, Matthew Belinkie, Ryan Sheely, Jordan Stokes, and Matthew Wrather discuss the trainwreck phenomenon of Britney Spears, the alarming link between corn and horror, and the terrible things that happen when you replace the “c” in “corn horror” with a “p”.
The oldest profession* has been getting a lot of press lately. Perhaps as a way to cleanse some of the recent negativity, I’d like to turn to one of the more sincere expressions of love for the women of the night — or, to pull up short with the second-oldest profession**, the women of the evening. Video after the pole dance.
* Though I still say that there’s no reason to assume the first professional was a prostitute. We don’t know which Cro-Magnon first drew a regular salary. The title probably belongs to some random field that will never want it, like interior decorator, inventory flow manager or osteopath.
Belinkie, Wrather, and Fenzel analyze presidential and gubernatorial sex scandals throughout American history, touching on Eliot Spitzer and “Kristen” (Ashley Alexandra Dupré), Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, Hugh Grant and a cut rate Sunset Blvd. hooker, and Grover Cleveland.
Excuse the bad Skype connection and light production values. This is Episode 4 of our podcast, and as our podcasting kung fu becomes mightier, we have been trying to use musical bumpers, get good sound quality, and so forth. But we wanted to get this up while it was still relevant.
GoldenEye (1995)
Role: Alec Trevelyan, British secret agent 006.
Betrayal: He becomes the leader of a terrorist organization trying to destroy Britain.
The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Role: Boromir, one of the nine companions assigned to protect Frodo from all who would take the ring.
Betrayal: He tries to take the ring.
Equilibrium (2002)
Role: Errol Partridge, a policeman in a dystopian future, charged with hunting down and killing those who refuse to take their emotion-suppressing medicine.
Betrayal: He stops taking the medicine.
Belinkie, Wrather, and Fenzel analyze presidential and gubernatorial sex scandals throughout American history, touching on Eliot Spitzer and “Kristen” (Ashley Alexandra Dupré), Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, Hugh Grant and a cut rate Sunset Blvd. hooker, and Grover Cleveland.
