Trailer #2 for 'Ms Green & Other Lovely Beasts'...

Check out the new trailer for our short film "Ms Green & Other Lovely Beasts" below...

This trailer takes on a more quirky, romantic vibe, angling towards some of the other shades to the complex protagonist Elnora Green, played by Lauren Koster.

You can follow the film's progress on Facebook and visit the Oakhill Productions website.

Double Bill Mini Musings: Benefitting and Broadcasting...

Friends With Benefits:
What's it about?
From Will Gluck, director of the brilliant Easy A, comes this moderately raunchier tale of two friends in New York, both recently out of long-term relationships and with their own batch of personal hang-ups, who decide to skip the complications of being in a relationship and go straight for the sex part. Naturally, being a romantic comedy, things don't stay that way for long.
Who would I recognise in it?
Justin Timberlake, Mila Kunis, Woody Harrelson, and a bunch of other folk.
Great/Good/Alright/Shite?
Simultaneously subverting, and conforming to, the various tropes of the romantic comedy sub-genre, FWB treads a sometimes unsteady line between ironic send-up and schmaltzy familiarity. Fortunately, on the fairly consistent strength of the script, and good chemistry between the two leads (with a chucklesome, but underused, supporting role from Harrelson as a matcho sports writer who happens to be gay), you can forgive the film for following some predictable paths at times and reaching a conclusion you saw coming from a dozen movies of it's kind before it. Decidedly better than the standard romcom fare by a county mile - the added wit provides a welcome spice to a sub-genre that is too often underwritten, and burdening the shoulders of actors who could be doing far better work elsewhere. FWB, with it's sparky yet friendly combination of the familiar with the cheekily sly, ends up being solid - good.

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Triple Bill Mini Musings: The Weird, The High, and the Other...

Weird Science:
I caught some flack (in-jest) from some of the folks over on Homepage of the Dead for having not seen John Hughes' bonkers teen-sci-fi-com, and seeing as I'm a big fan of the Hughes catalogue of films, I figured it was about time I caught up with it. Anthony Michael Hall and Ilan Mitchell-Smith play two high school nerds (and social rejects to boot) put 1980s computers, phone-modems, and lax military security to good use as they create - Frankenstein style - the woman of their dreams (Kelly LeBrock). Taking them on a zany journey of self-discovery that involves all sorts of bizarro flights of fancy, it's a bloody entertaining ride. Lessons learnt include standing up to your bullying older brother (played by Bill Paxton) and a gang of bikers (including horror icon Michael Berryman, and Mad Max II's Vernon Wells), to getting the girls (Judie Aronson, and Suzanne Snyder - whom I finally discovered I recognised from Return of the Living Dead Part II). One of the great things about the movies of John Hughes is that the jokes remain fresh and timeless, and the decidedly 1980s look is always a fun time capsule (rather than a dating hindrance), and Weird Science is no different. I'm glad I finally caught up with this dose of teenage male fantasy ... well, PG-13, good-natured level fantasy, anyway!