Watch My First Television Commercial

Hey everyone. If you've been wondering why I haven't been posting lately, it is because I've been hard at work filming once again. My latest film project was for my first television commercial. It was for Heroes and Dreams Comics. You can watch the commercial in full HD above.

This commercial was filmed on a Canon XH A1 1.67MP 3CCD High-Definition Camcorder with 20x Optical Zoom. It was custom color corrected in Final Cut Express 4. The score for the commercial was provided by Jake Crouch.

Hope you all enjoy this. I know it is only thirty seconds long but we worked very hard on it to make it a little more special than your average local commercial.

Watch Bags and Boards Episode III

Hey everyone. Another episode from my Bags and Boards web series is in the can. Watch it in Full HD above. To see previous episodes, go here.

Bags and Boards is a web series created by Wesley Caldwell, Austin Caldwell, Jay Long and Dale Griffin that follows comic book store workers as they struggle with the daily grind, antagonistic customers, love and hard economic times. Despite all of this, they maintain a positive outlook on life, have fun and celebrate the wonderful lifestyle of the comic book world.

In this third episode entitled "A New Hope," the comic store has a movie night while Steven tries to build a relationship with Betty and Bruce deals with friend problems.

Bags and Boards is a non-profit web series made for fun and to celebrate the world of comics. No money has been made by the creation of this show.

For updates and news on the show, be sure to check out Bags and Boards.org. 

Big Fan Trailer Makes Me Happy

The trailer for Big Fan was released yesterday and I'm pretty excited about it.

I've decided to keep this post short so I'll just list you a couple of reasons why I'm excited about this movie:

- Patton Oswalt doing drama

- It's written and directed by Robert Siegel, the writer of The Wrestler (which I gave a 10/10)

- The Taxi Driver-like vibe of the protagonist

- The incredibly underrated Michael Rapaport is in it

- It's supposed to be pretty messed up

- It looks better than most of the crap being churned out today

So yeah, I'm in.

Source: Trailer Addict

Speech of the Week #35

Hey guys, welcome to a column here on YDKS Movies entitled Speech of the Week! For now on, every week I will post a new scene from a movie that features a speech of some sort being given. After all, there are a lot of famous scenes in film where characters give an influential speech of some sort. Then again, there are also a lot of scenes where characters give a speech and it just comes off cheesy and lame. In this section, you will see both kinds. That's right, people, I'm giving you the good and bad of film speeches all wrapped up in one great big package. I hope you all enjoy.

It's been a while since I've done a Speech of the Week. This week's speech comes from a movie I literally just finished watching: David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch. Based on loosely on William S. Burroughs' controversial and seminal novel of the same name as well as some of Burroughs' life, the film follows Jim Lee (played by Peter Weller of Robocop fame) as he attempts to write a novel while tripping out on drugs and hallucinating. Lee imagines his typewriter turning into a talking, giant bug and believes he is a secret agent trying to crack into a secret, evil organization called Interzone Incorporated. The film is incredibly hard to follow and is just damn weird.

One of the standout moments from the movie is when Lee gives a speech during a car ride about a man who had a talking asshole. Yes, that's right-- a talking asshole. Now, this may seem silly but trust me; this is an incredibly creepy speech. In fact, it's kind of scary. It's one of the few things from Burroughs' original novel that made it to the screen and it shows.

Watch it below and try not to be a little creeped out.