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Sweet 4 minute footage of The Walking Dead Season 2

              More dead goodness right here. This is the UK trailer for the second season premiering in October on FX. Check it out:     Ahhhh. So excited maan. This should be good. Only thing is, did they give too much away in this clip? Maybe.   Source: The People's Movies    

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Relentless Energy Drink presents Short Stories: The Road – starring Frank Turner

Back in January, we posted the winner of the 2010 Relentless Short Stories competition. Here we have the first entry for the 2011 competition: A platform for young filmmakers, the latest five minute Short Stories film is the vision of East London based photographer-turned-filmmaker James Henry. Since graduating from Hertfordshire University, the young creative has honed his cinematic talents producing promos for underground bands to fashion brands and magazines. Passionate punk, travelling troubadour and songwriter extraordinaire, Frank Turner is the enigmatic star of The Road – the first film of 2011 for Short Stories, proudly presented by Relentless Energy Drink. James’ documentary debut, The Road is the first entry in the second year of Relentless Energy Drink’s film making competition Short Stories. For its debut year in 2010, the winning film was Dark Side of the Lens – a breathtaking visual poem to the ocean by renowned surf photographer Mickey Smith and filmmaker Allan Wilson of the Astray Collective. The stunning short went viral instantly on release, clocking up over a million views, winning prestigious awards from The New York Surf Film Festival, Canadian Surf Film Festival, Surfer Poll Awards and more. Via probing interviews, behind-the-scenes studio shots, and live footage at intimate sold out shows, James reveals the person behind the Frank Turner enigma, and how he personifies Focus, the shared theme for all this year’s Short Stories films. We follow his journey from DIY punk frontman (with post-hardcore quartet Million Dead) to struggling songwriter, then today’s festival-headlining hero. A musical poet for the protest generation, Frank’s drive personifies the ‘No Half Measures’ philosophy of Relentless Energy Drink. Inspired by hardcore pioneers Black Flag and Minor Threat, plus the classic songs of Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan, Frank makes unpretentious folk punk, with an everyman, anthem appeal. James mirrors this timeless approach cinematically with The Road - using grainy black and white imagery to recreate a vintage 70s feel. In the vein of previous Short Stories films, Frank shares his story in his own words and how, determined to restart at a grassroots level, he endured sacrifice, suffering and struggle: from gruelling tours, indifferent audiences, financial difficulties and self-doubt, to critical acclaim, adoration, awards and blanket peer recognition. “There’s a lyrical honesty that comes through in Frank’s music - a real sincerity,” concludes James. “I want to explore who he is at his core: it’s Frank’s story so who better to tell it than him himself?” To view this and the other entries for the Relentless Short Stories competition, check out relentlessenergy.com

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RED(2010) review

Synopsis: When his idyllic life is threatened by a high-tech assassin, former black-ops agent Frank Moses reassembles his old team in a last ditch effort to survive. RED seemed like a cheap version of The Losers at first glance, but then get a little over 30 minutes into the film and it is actually quite the opposite. The Winners. (Oooh...That was BAD) Anyway, the film wasn't exactly the most exciting film I've seen, considering it was a graphic novel adaptation, although nothing could be as bad as X-Men Origins: Wolverine, or The Fantastic Four, the ashcanned version. But hold on a second - I'm not saying this was BAD, I'm just saying it wasn't THAT good. Don't let that detract from seeing it though, because there were several segments within the film which made me chuckle, the reason for this was the awesomeness who was Mary Louis Parker. She made me laugh. She was funny. She was HIGHLARIOUS. Aside from that, there was little in this film which was impressive, other than the stylistic (or is it now becoming generic?) Comic-Book visuals, and that one awesomehellyeahbadass scene when John McClane walks out of the car while it's moving, THAT, was impressive. Not much to mention about RED, the performances were admirable, but felt somewhat forced, like they didn't even want to be there. I mean, fine, whatever, find another film to act in, I don't care. Screw you Morgan Freeman, you weren't even in this film that much anyway. Okay film, fun plot, good performances, MLP was funny. She was. 5.5/10 Kazed