Great film making can be recognized when a film doesn’t have dialogue but captivates you. Element X Creative, a company that designs and creates stories through animation, visual effects, motion design, and creative editorial produced a short film for the Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP) that did just that. What they came up with […]
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Great Stories Come in Small Packages
April 23rd, 2012 
David Derks 
Posted in ABOUT US, ANIMATED, ARTICLES BY AUTHOR, David Derks, Uncategorized 
Tags: Animation, Family, Short Film 
No Comments »A Wrinkle in Time: Arrugas/Wrinkles (Film Review)
April 20th, 2012 David Derks Every so often, a movie comes out that explores a subject most of us are uncomfortable with. These are movies I tend to shy away from. With so many challenges life has to offer I gravitate towards adventure, fantasy and comedy. It’s my way of escaping the world for a couple of hours. I also […]
Posted in ABOUT US, ANIMATED, ARTICLES BY AUTHOR, David Derks, FEATURES AND INDEPENDENT, MOVIES, RANTS & REVIEWS Tags: Animation, Foreign, Rated PG No Comments »Brave New Digital World: The Fantastic App of Mr. Morris Lessmore
April 20th, 2012 David Derks There was a gem of a short film released last year that was originally part of an app available on iTunes, and it won the Oscar earlier this year for best animated short subject called The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore. It’s a brilliant piece of filmmaking that will put a smile on […]
Posted in ABOUT US, ANIMATED, ARTICLES BY AUTHOR, David Derks, FEATURES AND INDEPENDENT, INDEPENDENT FILMS Tags: Animation, Family, New Media 2 Comments »The Mouse That Roared: The Gruffalo (Film Review)
April 19th, 2012 David Derks The mouse meets the predators The Gruffalo is a charming animated short film about a mouse who encounters danger while on a journey to an acorn tree. Based on the award-winning children’s book The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson & Alex Scheffler, a mouse goes on a journey to a distant acorn tree where he encounters three […]
Posted in ANIMATED, ANIMATED, ARTICLES BY AUTHOR, David Derks, INDEPENDENT FILMS Tags: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Foreign, Rated G 2 Comments »A Monster in Paris (Film Review)
March 15th, 2012 David Derks At the 2012 Los Angeles Animation Festival, I had the opportunity to watch a little gem of a film that has not yet been released in the United States. If you asked me a week ago if a movie about a giant sized singing flea sounded appealing, I would have say no. A Monster in […]
TRAILER TUESDAY: MEN IN BLACK 3, FRANKENWEENIE, THAT’S MY BOY AND MORE!
March 6th, 2012 Beyond the Marquee Instead of bouncing around the net trying to find the latest trailers for the hottest films, just drop by Beyond the Marquee here on TRAILER TUESDAYS and we’ll load you up with what you need. Whether you’ve seen them allready, or ar thirsty to revisit them again, here are this weeks’ latest and greatest.
DISNEY debuts 2 NEW Awesome Posters this week: FRANKENWEENIE and BRAVE
February 22nd, 2012 Beyond the Marquee Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures and Disney/PIXAR released two great looking new one-sheets for their upcoming films this week for FRANKENWEENIE and BRAVE (click the link and check em’ out!)
