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November Favorites

Here are our favorite things from November! Gotta get back to work! Three more videos to edit`!

How to Ruin an Action Scene (Blue Flame Special Ep 2)

This is the video I was going to make a month ago. Before I decided to do a whole series on action scenes, the plan was to do a video just on geography. I was concerned it wasn't an exciting enough to...

Creating a Monster Protagonist

This is actually last week's video! But due to delayed approval from the sponsor (blame them) it got delayed until now. This one is allllll about monsters. Some Godzilla. A lot of King Kong. And some ...

Announcing Our New Project

Most of the info is contained in the video, but here's the gist of it:

We're making a big new short film, the latest in the series of "When Your Friends Get Engaged" and "The High School Reunion," a...

The Origin of Baby Driver & Drive

I've wanted to see Walter Hill's film The Driver for years, but it's a difficult movie to track down. Finally, over the summer Edgar Wright curated a series of heist movies a...

T-shirt Design Poll!

Hey everyone, unfortunately there's no video this week. I've been frantically trying to keep on schedule over the past month (which has led to a lot of not sleeping, catching a cold, and being very st...

Patrick Explains BLADE II (And Why It's Great)

My parents are back for a new entry in what has (to my surprise) become a lot of people's favorite series on this channel.

This one is pretty self-explanatory. BLADE II rules, so I explained why. It...

Anatomy of a Perfect Action Scene (AND THE START OF A NEW SERIES)

I didn't actually have a topic for this week's video until five days ago. I had several different ideas, but couldn't nail one down, and then, sitting in the San Francisco airport as my redeye back to...

September Favorites

This is a couple weeks late, due to the post production process for last week's video being absolutely insane (PLEASE WA...

The Best "Getting the Team Together" Montage Ever

This is a big one. It's been in the works since May, we shot it for all of August and some of September, and post production has taken weeks. But it's done.

As I mention in the video, it was inspire...

Rewards Are Coming!

Hey everyone, just wanted to give you a quick update in case you're one of the many people who have pledged $10 or more monthly in the past, like, year, and are wondering what our deal is and when you...

THIRTY

Today is my 30th birthday. That's kind of a big deal, or at least it is to me, so I knew I had to make a video about it.

The last time I did this was three years ago when I turned 27: 2017-09-29 21:58:15 +0000 UTC View Post

Why is the Hand So Boring?

I've watched most of the Marvel Netflix stuff, and The Defenders finally kind of broke me. It wasn't terrible (but also not especially good), but it was the culmination of a ...

Ghostbusters: A Movie About Nothing

This one was a lot of fun. I dug deep into a topic I've been thinking about for the past 7 years or so: whether or not Ghostbusters is about anything. Like, if it has ANY the...

August Favorites

This thing is back! And we listened to the suggestions for how to improve it.

This time around we sat behind a table so Matt's foot isn't so prominent in the foreground, cut back our list of topics,...

What To Do With the X-Men Movies

Back in June I was on a 3-hour bus ride when the news broke about the next X-Men movie, X-Men: Dark Phoenix, apparently being released in the next couple years.

As someone ...

Patrick Explains CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (And Why It's Great)

This series is back! And since this is the third one I guess it's officially a series now. And yes, my parents are back, too.

I actually had no immediate plans for more of these videos. I was going ...

A Tribute to Punching in Movies (video essay)

It's a new video essay! All about punching! Which I realize might seem like a weird topic.

A few months back I watched Rian Johnson's Brick for the first time in over a dec...

July Favorites (new feature)

Here's the first in what will probably be a monthly thing. You know how beauty vloggers (and a lot of female vloggers in general) do monthly favorites videos where they share (usually) their favorite ...

Death Bidet (trailer)

So this one time Matt, Jake, and I got a hotel room for a night so we could shoot a fake trailer for a horror movie called DEATH BIDET.

There's also a behind the scenes video so you can see what it ...

Comic-Con Was Pretty Crazy

Last week was Comic-Con, and as always it was complete madness. So I covered the whole thing in a video. Features appearances by Big Boi from Outkast plus the actual Josie and the Pussycats from River...

Sam Raimi - How Does Horror Comedy Work?

Sorry this is so late. I've been in the middle of non-stop Comic-Con madness since Wednesday morning and it totally slipped my mind to write this post.

(Comic-Con is over and went well, btw. You'll ...

No Video This Week (Well...Kind of)

Since November 3rd of last year, we've released a video every single week. That's 36 weekly videos. Plus some bonus ones thrown in occasionally.

So it was time for a bit of a break.

(Honestly,...

A WEEK OF WRITING

This is not the most exciting video, but it was a necessary one.

As much as the YouTube videos are great and I love making them and they pay my rent and lead to fun opportunities, I know that if I w...

Kraven's Big Day: A Spider-Man Story

If you started watching this channel in the past six months, you might watch this and think, "What IS this garbage?" If you've been watching since before last November, you're probably thinking, "Hey,...

How Wonder Woman Uses Color

This is not the official video for this week. This one is kind of a mini video essay. Like most of us, I really liked Wonder Woman (there's finally a good DC movie!), and I r...

TONIGHT'S LIVE STREAM ACTUALLY AT 7:30

Slight mistake on my end on the last post.

Tonight.

7:30 EST

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbwDCAKshwU 2017-06-22 16:30:12 +0000 UTC View Post

How Edgar Wright Saved My Filmmaking Career

This is a story about a lot of things: how I launched the YouTube channel, how I almost went to grad school, and (as you can see from the title) how Edgar Wright saved my filmmaking career.

I've bee...

AN ACTUAL LIVE STREAM ON THURSDAY

So for all you $4+ patrons, we're FINALLY doing a live stream this week.

THURSDAY

7:30 PM (EST)

UNTIL...8:30? (we'll see)

We're going to be doing these semi-r...

Realism: How Much Does It Really Matter?

This one's a new video essay.

If you follow me on Twitter you might have seen me complain about a repeated line of commenting on the Marvel color grading video essay: that the flat coloring is more ...