Last year I wrote, directed and produced a short film called 8 Days Later. And now you can watch it in all of its 10 minutes-and-a-half glory, uninterrupted and with no commercials or pop-ups!

Point your purty browsers to 8dayslatermovie.com and click on the “PLAY THE MOVIE” button. Let me know what you thought!

my directoral debut, 8 days later is an official selection of the 2009 coney island film festival!!

coney island is an awesome place just by itself, so sticking a film festival there just completely brings it over the top. imagine taking a giant bowl of your favorite ice cream and topping it off with fourth of july fireworks.

see you there? screening info is as follow:
Program #13
Sunday Oct 4, 3pm
CONEY ISLAND MUSEUM
1208 Surf Ave. 2nd Floor

remember that tiny bootleg tron 2 teaser we saw a year ago? well it’s now available in hd.

but what blows me away is for all the kiddies geeking over this, there’s a vast amount of them who haven’t even seen the first one. do your homework first, junior.

I love megatron’s ringtone.

to those of you who don’t own multi-region playing dvd players (what good are you, anyway?) the day has come to rejoice.

spaced is finally available to american audiences!

spaced is/was the sitcom that was created by the genius minds that went on to make shaun of the dead and hot fuzz. if you thought those movies were clever, your asses will be floored when spaced hits your television set.

mark your calendars now!

for those of us who don’t speak swedish, that translates to “let the right one in” and it’s the title of a fantastic film I just saw at the tribeca film festival. it’s a tender tale of a young bullied boy who falls in love with the girl next door, who happens to be a vampire.

as much as I strongly urge you to go see it, I just as strongly urge you not to watch the trailer online because it doesn’t come close to doing justice to the beauty of this film. in fact I feel it can be misleading, not to mention it giving away key scenes that’s best left for you to see for the first time on the big screen.

is it a coming of age story? is it a horror movie? there’s no categorizing this film.

the two leads appear to be in their early teens, and according to the director’s q&a after the screening they had little to no prior acting experience. that to me was mind blowing. to get such performances out of these actors must require so much skill and patience by the director. wow.

I don’t know what kind of u.s. distribution they have lined up but it needs to be seen by many people. in the meantime, if you’re in the nyc area you need to get off your ass and see it before it’s too late.

last night I went and saw the nyc premiere of memories of tomorrow starring ken watanabe. it had an introduction AND a q&a afterwards from the man himself!

the film is about a man who devoted his life to his career only to find his work life, home life, and relationship with his wife fall apart when he discovers he has alzheimer’s disease.

expertly shot, directed and acted, this is easily the best film I’ve seen this year.

those of you in nyc, sf and la will see one of japan’s top films from 2006 in select asian theaters. check the site for listings.

…walked into a movie theatre to see a film you barely knew anything about, slowly and gradually fell in love with the care that was taken into every small detail in this film, and about third of the way through came to the realization that you are indeed watching what will become one of your favorite movies of all time unfolding right in front of your eyes for the very first time?

that was what it was like to see it’s only talk last night at the ny asian film festival.