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I finished this yesterday, and then I had to go and lie down because - after nearly seven weeks of spending every waking moment on this thing! - I'm absolutely exhausted.

Anyway, I made The Evil Table for The Halloween Monster Movie Challenge 2012, for which I had the assigned line of dialogue: "Eat this, you foul vermin scum." The challenge is still going on - I actually finished my entry a couple of weeks before the final deadline (there's apparently still time to enter it yourself if you're so inclined) - so this one could hardly be more "hot off the press."

Hope you enjoy it. ;)

 
This wasn't made for a 48 hour challenge, but it might as well have been. It was shot on my phone in a few hours on Saturday the 7th of May, 2011, in a desperate bid to make the 9th of May deadline for submissions to QuickFlick London on the theme of "Dealer."  

I spent all day Sunday editing it in Final Cut Pro (finally finishing it at eight o'clock this morning) and am once again completely exhausted and wondering why I always do these things in such a hurry. Anyway, here's my latest: written, directed and edited by someone who has absolutely no idea what they're doing.

I'm editing this on the 10th of June, 2011, to add that The Dealer's Club was shown at the Quickflick London screening on the 8th of June... where (guess what?) it won the top prize, The Golden Quickie!

 
Exactly what it sounds like.

 
My latest zombie film (what I wrote and directed) - May Be Side Effects - for which Tammy Sander and I both donned homemade fat suits, is almost done. I need to tweak a few things, but mostly I'm waiting for a couple of people to get some audio files to me.

In the meanwhile, you can see some behind-the-scenes photos of the shoot at: http://shrunk.net/3f7f79c7 

BTW, I'm thinking of using this one as my new profile pic on Facebook. Or maybe this one. 

I'm editing this about forty-five minutes later. I've just remembered that the last time I referred to something "what I wrote" I got rather sternly corrected by an overseas acquaintance who was very concerned about my bad grammar. So for the benefit of anyone who doesn't live in the U.K., it's a Morecambe and Wise reference. ;)

 
I went to see Exit Through the Gift Shop (the Banksy movie) the other week, and I recommend it; it is very funny indeed. I was going to post something about it the next day, but then I got ill, ill, ill - I'm still a bit on the weak and wobbly side - and the last couple of weeks it's been just about all I could do to drag myself to the computer long enough to link to my last couple of hot dog front pages. (The urge to brag will overcome physical infirmity every time.)

Two - and a bit - weeks later than intended, here's the url for the Banksy film (and the trailer, though I don't think it does the film justice; the film is actually much better and laugh out loud funny than the trailer makes it look): http://banksyfilm.com/ 

Now on to the thing to which I am looking forward (as referred to in the subject line). It's Four Lions, the film by Chris Morris which is apparently nearing completion. 

There's a bit about it here. (You'll find the trailer down at the bottom of the page. And while you're there, be sure sure to click on "Pedestrians to be Banned from Cambridge" and "Horizontal Diseases Sweep The Nation.")

I also found the following clip on youtube. Though it's listed as a trailer, it's actually just a scene from the film, and it makes me laugh every time I watch it.

 


The trouble I have with French and Saunders' film parodies is I can never watch just one. ;)

 
I've never played any of the Super Mario games but I remember seeing ads for them on television, which gives me just enough knowledge to find the following two films funny. 

My Roommate Mario:

Luigi Finally Snaps:

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

There are a lot of Kill Bill and Pulp Fiction trailer mash-ups around. Below are my two favourites... out of the ones I've actually seen. Feel free to let me know about any others you like.

Kill Bill and Beauty and the Beast, or "Kill Beast":

Pulp Fiction in Wonderland:

 
A lot of the trailer mash-ups on youtube are "clever" rather than funny, and for the most part I tend to prefer the funny ones.  Not that there's anything wrong with clever, it's just that -- nine times out of ten -- given the choice between being rapt with admiration or having a laugh, guess which one I'm going for. ;)

Sweeney Who is one of the "clever" ones -- it's a mix of the audio track from the Sweeney Todd trailer over some footage from Doctor Who -- but it's got one moment that still makes me laugh out loud after several viewings, and it's that one moment that has earned it a place among my favourites. (Will there be a prize for the first person to guess what that moment is? Probably not.)

Sweeney Who is one of those videos where the embedding has been disabled, so here's the url:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNIa2_exmo0

The video below has the audio track from a trailer for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince over footage from Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties.  And it's funny. 

BTW, for those of us who can't get enough of silly trailer mash-ups, Swisstone has posted links to a couple of very funny videos in his comment on my previous post.