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You’ll Know His Name

You’ll Know My Name Drama 2010 Not Rated Directed, Written & Produced by Joe Raffa Starring: Joe Raffa, David J. Bonner, Alexander Mandell, Mianna Saxton, Chuck Connors, Tommy Sztubinksi, Brian Gallagher, Davy Raphaley, Nicole Cinaglia Website: YKMN Cynema is not about reviews. While a critical look is often afforded to specific films, this is not about whether a film is “good” or “bad.” It’s about how they are MADE. My previous entries looked at wide ranges from Jurassic World to Halloween III.This is a look at a young filmmaker who has taken risks and made a film that is outside the realm of what is popular or what studios are developing. Joe Raffa is anti-Cynema because he does what few others are doing: he takes real risks. Thanks to the digital revolution, anyone with a camcorder and computer thinks they’re a filmmaker. Shooting your video and putting it up in ten minute bites online does not make you a professional.

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Capt McNeely
Jan 4, 2016
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“Women in Horror Spotlight”: Kathryn Bigelow

Odds are that if you are familiar with director/producer/writer Kathryn Bigelow it will be for her Drama/Thriller pieces like K-19: The Widowmaker (2002) starring Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson, or for her outstanding work on The Hurt Locker (2008) for which she was the first woman to win an Academy Award for Best Director, she won the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Direction, and she also earned the Critics Choice Award for Best Director. (This is on top of the awards that the film won on its own.) She is also the directorial force behind the recent blockbuster, Zero Dark Thirty (2012). The reason why Bigelow has earned a nod here is due to a western horror film she wrote and directed in 1987 towards the beginning of her career. The film was called New Dark and was about a small town farmer’s son who is turned into a vampire

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Fox Emm
Mar 5, 2015
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An Interview With Young Actress Talia Dobbins Of The Sacrament

This past weekend I had the pleasure of talking with Ms. Talia Dobbins, an extremely talented, funny and well spoken young lady. Talia has already had an impressive acting career . She is a true professional, to be so young. Talia’s latest film role was in The Sacrament, directed and written by Ti West. The Sacrament is a dark thriller about a man who travels to the remote location of Eden Parish, to find his sister. The movie is loosely based on the story of Jim Jones, a charismatic church leader who’s life ends with the mass suicide of 918 people. Talia has had many other roles, in a long list of movies including A Better Life, 5 Minutes (2012) , Where the Mangos Grow (2013), Eat (2012), The Gift and several movies by The Savannah Collage of Art and Design . She is a true professional, to be so young. CM “What was the first movie you were in?”

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 16, 2014

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You’ll Know His Name

You’ll Know My Name Drama 2010 Not Rated Directed, Written & Produced by Joe Raffa Starring: Joe Raffa, David J. Bonner, Alexander Mandell, Mianna Saxton, Chuck Connors, Tommy Sztubinksi, Brian Gallagher, Davy Raphaley, Nicole Cinaglia Website: YKMN Cynema is not about reviews. While a critical look is often afforded to specific films, this is not about whether a film is “good” or “bad.” It’s about how they are MADE. My previous entries looked at wide ranges from Jurassic World to Halloween III.This is a look at a young filmmaker who has taken risks and made a film that is outside the realm of what is popular or what studios are developing. Joe Raffa is anti-Cynema because he does what few others are doing: he takes real risks. Thanks to the digital revolution, anyone with a camcorder and computer thinks they’re a filmmaker. Shooting your video and putting it up in ten minute bites online does not make you a professional.

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
Jan 4, 2016
Horror Fuel

“Women in Horror Spotlight”: Kathryn Bigelow

Odds are that if you are familiar with director/producer/writer Kathryn Bigelow it will be for her Drama/Thriller pieces like K-19: The Widowmaker (2002) starring Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson, or for her outstanding work on The Hurt Locker (2008) for which she was the first woman to win an Academy Award for Best Director, she won the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Direction, and she also earned the Critics Choice Award for Best Director. (This is on top of the awards that the film won on its own.) She is also the directorial force behind the recent blockbuster, Zero Dark Thirty (2012). The reason why Bigelow has earned a nod here is due to a western horror film she wrote and directed in 1987 towards the beginning of her career. The film was called New Dark and was about a small town farmer’s son who is turned into a vampire

Continue reading →
Fox Emm
Mar 5, 2015
Horror Fuel

An Interview With Young Actress Talia Dobbins Of The Sacrament

This past weekend I had the pleasure of talking with Ms. Talia Dobbins, an extremely talented, funny and well spoken young lady. Talia has already had an impressive acting career . She is a true professional, to be so young. Talia’s latest film role was in The Sacrament, directed and written by Ti West. The Sacrament is a dark thriller about a man who travels to the remote location of Eden Parish, to find his sister. The movie is loosely based on the story of Jim Jones, a charismatic church leader who’s life ends with the mass suicide of 918 people. Talia has had many other roles, in a long list of movies including A Better Life, 5 Minutes (2012) , Where the Mangos Grow (2013), Eat (2012), The Gift and several movies by The Savannah Collage of Art and Design . She is a true professional, to be so young. CM “What was the first movie you were in?”

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 16, 2014