Film Category

First you got the chance to shoot a piece for Ridley Scott and Kevin MacDonald’s new film, then you were able to offer your skills and services to a feature film being shot in three days. The newest opportunity for social media-based film production is Redd Inc, and indie horror film whose plot synopsis features the phrases “burlesque webcam stripper”, “chained to a desk” and “demented from failed medical experimentation”. You officially have our attention, Redd Inc.

Did YOU get a sweet lil’ tax return this year? Before you go and blow it all on houses in Detroit, consider this: The Autumn Bowl in Brooklyn is up for auction. If you can scrape together $15,000 in the next five days, it’s all yours! According to the eBay listing:

“After 7 long years we are selling our well loved bowl. This is your chance to own a skateboarding landmark. Put it in your backyard, skatepark or private warehouse. This one of a kind bowl was built by a team lead by Tim Vanderbas in September of 2003. Endless lines, perfect transitions, tons of fun. This bowl has been skated by nearly every pro out there including Julien Stranger, Lance Mountain, Tony Hawk, Steve Cabalerro, Spanky, Zared Basset…the list goes on and on.”

An audio track making the rounds of the interweb this week comes to us from the pen of Todd Solondz, the piano of Marc Shaiman and the mouths of Beck and Devendra Banhart.
Life During Wartime is featured in Solondz’s new film of the same name, both in the closing credits and in a delicate scene in which Shirley Henderson’s character Joy plucks it out on her acoustic guitar as she sits alone in the mansion occupied by her sister, egotistical screenwriter Helen (played brilliantly by former Brat Pack-er Ally Sheedy).

If you haven’t caught on as yet, we’re kinda crazy about bikes here at Portable. When I say crazy I mean – create a picture of Dustin Hoffman in a Chapel with hot dog – crazy. But you know, it happens.

2010 marks the fifteenth anniversary of the release of Clueless. Can you believe that Paul Rudd was the biggest name to emerge from the film? He’s even bigger than that bro from Scrubs. I guess the thing that I’ve always wondered is, what did Judd Apatow’s favourite everyman do BEFORE the release of Clueless? Well, Gabrielle Birkner has come out and answered my question: He worked as a DJ at her Bat Mitzvah, in 1992.

The pyromaniac in us digs Ride. This video was shot on location in Mexico City by director Garth Davis and features Steve Berra (co-owner of The Berrics skate park in LA), as well as skaters Jesus Gonzalez, Eder Martinez, Mario Saenz, Angel Santiago and Luis Tolentino.

Just as the guys behind the Toy Story franchise have made us feel guilty about all the playthings we’ve collectively abandoned over the years, the animation Life Pscycle-ology has us thinking about all the out-dated cell phones we’ve tossed away.

Mast Brothers’ chocolate factory (a ridiculously stylish, grown up version of Willy Wonka, sans spoilt children and orange skinned vertically challenged migrants from Oompa Loompa Land) is located in Brooklyn, New York. What sets them aside from any other chocolate maker in the region, and quite possibly the world, is the fact that Mast Brothers are NYC’s only ‘bean to bar’ chocolate makers. The individually handcrafted chocolates are made from cacao beans from Madagascar, Venezuela, Ecuador and the Dominican Republic, personally sourced by brothers Rick and Michael Mast.

It seems every man and his dog is making a crazy creative video to commemorate their big day (who could forget last year’s epic clip featuring the entire bridal party dancing down the aisle?) and this is no exception. Set to the sultry tune of Passion Pit’s Sleepyhead, it seems that Lauren and JP don’t take themselves too seriously.

Here comes another one of those mindbending trailers which is all fancy bang-boom-crash to be sure, but leaves us wondering “what the hell is this even about?!”. Enter Sucker Punch, the brainchild of director Zack Synder (Watchmen, 300) and co-writer Steve Shibuya; an ass-kicking, rapidfire videogame/anime/action/fantasy, graphically intense and stylized to the nines in that signature Snyder style.