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What’s the goal of the newly announced Red Komodo-x? We all know the purpose of the 1st Komodo (Baby Dragon/Red’s first action cam/crash cam). However, the new Komodo-x seems a bit tricky to define. Let’s take a guess.

Red Komodo-x: From Crash-Cam to a Mini DSMC3 The 1st Komodo

The first Komodo was born as a valid need to replace GoPro cameras. Red Digital Cinema’s goal was to develop an action/crash cam that can be utilized for the big screen. Of course, there’s GoPro. However, investigations showed that the GoPro couldn’t hold on to the big screen (movie theater). In fact, the audience could notice a significant reduction in image quality when the shot/sequence passed 20 frames captured by GoPro. Thus, a small and affordable camera needed to be developed. The intention was to build a camera that can shoot compressed raw,...

The official teaser trailer of Extraction 2 has been released. And it looks fantastic! The film was shot mainly on the Arri Mini Lf, with some scenes on the Red Komodo. However, by watching the trailer, we assume that the Komodo was the no.1 player here. Here are our two cents.

Director Sam Hargrave shooting Extraction 2. Picture: Jasin Boland Extraction 2: Same as 1, but better… a lot better

Extraction 1 was one of the best Netflix action films ever made. The film implements crazy cinematography techniques led by director Sam Hargrave. Dp was Newton Thomas Sigel, however, due to the challenging oner shots (long takes) that demanded specialized physical expertise, Hargrave was the man behind the camera. As a former stuntman, he was able to maneuver the Red Monstro during car chases and stitched long shots. Anyway, Hargrave, the director of the sequel, said that Extraction 2 contains even more extreme cinematography.

This month’s installment of Deep Cuts Rising features a variety of horror movies. Some selections reflect a specific day or event in April, and others were chosen at random.

Regardless of how they came to be here, or what they’re about, these past movies can generally be considered overlooked, forgotten or unknown.

This month’s offerings include an anthology, a creature-feature, some found footage, and two slashers.

The House of the Dead (1978)

Directed by Sharron Miller.

The House of the Dead — also known as Last Stop on 13 Street and Alien Zone — is an American stab at an Amicus-style anthology film. Shot in Oklahoma with students from Osu, this low-budget horror omnibus does a creditable job of capturing the macabre spirit of The House That Dripped Blood and The Vault of Horror.

This regional horror collection delivers four sub-stories as well as a wraparound about an adulterous husband (John Ericson...

In an interview held by DPReview, Yosuke Yamane, which is the Vice President of Panasonic’s Entertainment and Communication, elaborated on a pretty exciting announcement. According to Yamane, Panasonic intends to enter into the market of cloud-based video workflow, enabling Lumix cameras to upload video files straight to the cloud, frame. io-style.

The Panasonic Lumix BS1H. Picture: Panasonic Panasonic’s Camera-to-Cloud: Future plans

DPReview interviewed one of the key people involved in the development of the Lumix brand, Yosuke Yamane, which is the Vice President of Panasonic’s Entertainment and Communication. In a footnote, Yamane elaborated on Panasonic’s intentions to get into the cloud-based video workflow. ‘We hope to enhance cloud network technology and other technologies that will enable editing while shooting by linking with the cloud, or example with footage or proxies being uploaded as they’re shot so that the editing process can begin immediately” Yamane stated,...

[Editor’s Note: The following story contains spoilers for IFC Midnight’s “Sputnik,” now available on VOD, digital, and in select theaters.]

While a space traveler’s greatest fear is typically what’s waiting out there in the great unknown, what they bring back to Earth could be much, much worse. That’s the premise of Russian filmmaker Egor Abramenko’s feature debut “Sputnik,” a sci-fi chiller with the stately echoes of Ridley Scott’s classic “Alien.” Set in the 1980s Cold War era, “Sputnik” blends creature-feature effects with heady extraterrestrial thrills. “Sputnik” is based on a proof-of-concept short Abramenko released in 2017 called “The Passenger” and, according to the director in a recent IndieWire interview, it’s unusual to see a sci-fi movie of such ambitious scale come out of Russia. Besides the one Russian name synonymous with soul-searching sci-fi, Andrei Tarkovsky, of course.

“We wanted to combine a very common setting for the Russian audiences, which is the U.

Tiff’s Midnight Madness program turned 25 this year, and for two and half decades, the hardworking programers have gathered some of the strangest, most terrifying, wild, intriguing and downright entertaining films from around the world. From dark comedies to Japanese gore-fests and indie horror gems, the Midnight Madness program hasn’t lost its edge as one the leading showcases of genre cinema. In its 25-year history, Midnight Madness has introduced adventurous late-night moviegoers to such cult faves as Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused and Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs. But what separates Midnight Madness from, say, Montreal’s three and half week long genre festival Fantasia, is that Tiff selects only ten films to make the cut. In other words, these programmers don’t mess around. Last week I decided that I would post reviews of my personal favourite films that screened in past years. And just like the Tiff programmers,...

According to The Hollywood Reporter, actor Kevin Zegers (pictured) from the Dawn Of The Dead remake has landed the lead role in Adam Green’s Frozen. The Hatchet writer/director’s literally chilling tale of survival rolls next week in Utah.

Zegers, whose credits also include Bram Stoker’S Shadowbuilder, Komodo, Wrong Turn and The Hollow, joins The Ruins’ Shawn Ashmore (playing his best friend) and Emma Bell (as his girlfriend). The three are on a snowboarding vacation on a New England mountain when they stay too late and wind up stuck on a chairlift when it shuts down for the weekend; they’re then faced with both an impending winter storm and a pack of hungry wolves. Former Lionsgate president Peter Block and Cory Neal are producing via GreeneStreet Films and A Bigger Boat. Green last discussed Frozen with us here.