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		<title>Shackled reviews</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is really more for my own record keeping, but read away. I&#8217;m going to try and keep a record to all the reviews of Shackled that I find. Search my Trash: no scoring system used Alien Bee: 3 / 5 Horrorphilia: 5.5 / 10 28 Days Later Analysis:  7 / 10 Horror Movie Reviews: 3 / 5 Videoviews: 3.5 / 5 I&#8217;ll add more as they come to my attention. Feel free to send any you find on my way! Update: in a moment of curious boredom, I decided to work out the average result of the reviews (63%) and compare it to the IMDB score (at time of writing this, 6.5 or 65%). Now, it may be primarily the reviewers scoring it on IMDB, but I think that is an interesting finding, myself&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://davetheallthing.com/2012/03/shackled_reviews/</link>
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		<title>Decisions, decisions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This kept me awake a while back, but it took me that while to be able to form my thoughts into words*. Maybe this will be of use to somebody else. Directing, in the eyes of many, is simply about making decisions. Being able to make decisions, really. And it&#8217;s the decisions you make (or don&#8217;t make) that define your style, for better or for worst. And not just the style you see on screen, but the style of how you work, the vibe on your set, how others work and so on. It&#8217;s a domino effect, I suppose. Anyway, I digress&#8230; In the heat of a shoot, not to mention the time leading up to one, you can find yourself making rather a lot of decisions quite rapidly. Thing is, how do you know you&#8217;ve made the right decision? Well, you don&#8217;t. Not really. And it&#8217;s far too easy to get caught up in &#8220;was that the right decision?&#8221; mode, get stuck over-thinking something and create a panic-ridden tar-pit that will drag you in the more you struggle. The important thing is to allow yourself to move on and keep making decisions. Be a shark; not in the corporate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davetheallthing.com/2012/01/decisions-decisions/</link>
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		<title>Rewrites&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;are a pain the hole. They are the worst part of screen-writing (most creative writing, really), and sadly comprise most of your writing time&#8230; What follows is a brief overview of the writing process: Step 1: conception! This awesome part is idea generation, wherein you get to come up with cool ideas, set pieces, characters, quotable dialogue and bits to make folk cry. I made that bitch cry, bitches love crying. Step 2: rewriting, phase 1 (the majority of rewriting &#8211; boo hiss!). This is the part where you take all the great, fresh ideas and you go over them a million times. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, you add new stuff and that&#8217;s cool and all, but usually this is a rage filled stage wherein you hope to goodness that you have something worth spending time on. Herein lies pitfalls such as Second Act Boredom and such. Step 3: rewriting, phase 2 &#8211; that bit where most of the shit is gone. Now you (hopefully) know you have something good and it&#8217;s mostly in front of you. You just have to figure out how to drag it from potentially great to actually great. Step 4: final polish. Grammar and such [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davetheallthing.com/2011/12/rewrites/</link>
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		<title>Beta Movement &#8211; Screening Wednesday 20th July 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Next Screening: Wednesday 20th July, Doors and wine at 7:30pm, screening starts at 8pm sharp in The Spirit Store, Dundalk. We&#8217;ll be showing The Brothers Bloom: For more info go to the Beta Movement website where you can also sign up to their twitter/facebook to be kept up to date. See you on the night, Dave.]]></description>
		<link>http://davetheallthing.com/2011/06/beta-movement-20th-july/</link>
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		<title>Thursday night was a film night</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thursday night was a night of watching films it seems. Here is a brief run down on what I watched. First of all, courtesy of the Directors&#8217; Guild and The Factory I got to wander along to a preview of Lance Daly&#8217;s The Good Doctor, in which Orlando Bloom plays Dr. Martin Blake, a lonely doctor who forms a relationship with a patient. I really don&#8217;t want to say much more about the plot, but it is a lot better than I am making it sound. Trust me and don&#8217;t look up much, since all the marketing material (trailers, synopses, etc) give away far more than they should. Which is a pity since the plot and its pacing work best when you don&#8217;t expect it all. Anyway, a good film with solid performances, a nice story and generally a nice looking flick. The kind of film I would recommend seeing if you like going to the cinema but find you&#8217;ve seen all the films you wanted to see. Or just like to support Irish filmmakers. After I got home from that I finally (as in I&#8217;ve had this staring at me for quite a while now) threw on Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davetheallthing.com/2011/06/thursday-night-was-a-film-night/</link>
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		<title>Apocalypse Now&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;is currently running in the IFI in Dublin. It&#8217;s a wonderful thing to see such a beautiful and powerful film on the big screen. A really enjoyable narration on the insanity of war. Treat yourself and go see it, if you can. Until this evening I&#8217;d never seen the film. I was always waiting to see it properly, like this. In fact there are a few classics that I&#8217;ve held off seeing, for want of watching them on the big screen; many of my friends know about my urge to get a Godfather trilogy day/night off the ground, not just in my front room, but on a big screen, with impressive sound and a crowd of people to enjoy it with. In fact (tangent in three&#8230; two&#8230; one&#8230; ), I&#8217;ve been watching a lot of old films lately: The Graduate, Bonnie and Clyde, Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia, All About Eve and a chink of the works of Hitchcock to name but a few. There is a real difference in storytelling evident between now and then. Everything is so rushed these day. As my friend commented as we left Apocalypse Now, if they remade that film nowadays, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davetheallthing.com/2011/05/apocalypse-now/</link>
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		<title>13 Assassins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I watched Takashi Miike&#8217;s 13 Assassins. What follow are my thoughts. With mild spoilers. An obvious homage to &#8216;Seven Samurai&#8217; (an awesome film, by the way &#8211; if you&#8217;re not seen it, go watch it. Then send me nice things as a thank you&#8230;) in which a the shogun&#8217;s advisor tasks one of his retainers with assassinating an evil lord, who for various reasons, can&#8217;t be touched politically. It was a fun, but flawed film. Mostly flawed because of the scale of it; 13 assassins, then support cast and, of course, the villain and his goons &#8211; lots of goons. Now &#8211; and I am not being racist here &#8211; considering that eveyone is dressed the same and has the same haircut they all look the same to me. Of the assassins only five &#8211; spear-man, cool-ronin, man-in-charge, monkey-man and nephew &#8211; have any attempt at personality. Which I have just summed up for you. The other eight dudes are interchangeable. If they had gone with the five semi-characters and fleshed them out, while downsizing the scale of the end encounter, they would have had a more poignant, exciting and realistic film. In short, the film can be summarised [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davetheallthing.com/2011/05/13-assassins/</link>
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		<title>Some films I like</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For some reason I cannot fathom, people always ask me for my favourite films. Even more unfathomable to me is the look on their faces when I list them. No pleasing some folk&#8230; Anyway, here is a(n unordered) list of films I really like: Spirited Away Pan’s Labyrinth Amelie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (the first one) The Rocky Horror Picture Show The Blues Brothers Up Big Trouble in Little China The Box Synecdoche, New York Memoirs of a Geisha 300 I can&#8217;t think of more. If I do, I may add them. You&#8217;ve never had a better friend than me.]]></description>
		<link>http://davetheallthing.com/2011/05/some-films-i-like/</link>
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		<title>Coming soon&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;a new film to kick-start a new project. And it&#8217;s going to require a blog. Hence, I am relaunching my blog. True story.]]></description>
		<link>http://davetheallthing.com/2011/05/coming-soon/</link>
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