Welcome to DGC Productions
We are a collective of Directors, producers, writers, animators and editors specialising in video production/ online film journalism and other media. Fresh from a multitude of degrees and certificates we are looking to get our work out there. Inside you will find reviews, interviews, showreels and other hopefully interesting bits and pieces.
It’s a shame Stieg Larson isn’t around to see this. His ‘Millennium trilogy’ of books have become some of the most successful books ever published. Larson; the author of the books that this series of films is based on; died in 2004. Since then, the Swedish books have become international best sellers; selling over 21 [...]
You’ve seen ‘Easy A’ before. You’ve seen it when it was called ‘American Pie’, you’ve seen it when it was called ‘Juno’, you’ve seen it when it was called ‘Mean Girls’. In fact you may have read it when it was called ‘The Scarlet Letter’. Hell, if you have seen a John Hughes movie: you’ve [...]
Chapter 2: Setting up the Candy Bar. When I first started out in cinema, I was working between projection and floor. Floor are the people who clean the cinemas’ between sessions. The more I worked, I started to also do box office and candy bar shifts. These shifts were the shifts that I dreaded. I’m [...]
‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice’ is a Jerry Bruckheimer movie. For many of you that automatically means it’s going to be bad. You think back to the films he produced like ‘Con Air’, ‘The Rock’, ‘Gone in 60 Seconds’, ‘Prince Of Persia’ and the‘National Treasure’ franchise and you think a couple of things: Wow, he generally makes [...]
Here is a new weekly blog for www.damngoodcup.com, a look into the life of a sydney projectionist. Written by Sean Lander: A Frame-by-Frame Look at the Life of a Cinema Projectionist Chapter 1: The Widescreen Its now coming up on five years since i started working as a projectionist. Its funny to think in that [...]
A few days ago I finally got to sit down and watch City of Ember, the 2008 fantasy film by Gil Kenan, who directed Monster House two years prior. City of Ember is one of those little films that treats its audience with a very pleasant joyride with a few bumps along the way. Though [...]
DAVE: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is film-maker Edgar Wrights’ first foray into moviemaking within the American Studio system; after his excellent british films; Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, as well as the brilliant, yet short lived television series Spaced. Scott Pilgrim is based on the graphic novel series written and drawn by [...]
Note: Kevin Smith’s words are in BLUE. Note: Offensive language in side. Swears have been censored. Film-maker Kevin Smith visited the Sydney Opera house recently (8th and 9th August 2010) and spoke at length about a variety of topics; telling long and entertaining stories. Many we have heard before on Smodcast or previous Q and A’s, [...]
Note: Kevin Smith’s words are in: BLUE. Note: Offensive language inside. Film-maker Kevin Smith visited the Sydney Opera house recently (8th and 9th August 2010) and spoke at length about a variety of topics; telling long and entertaining stories. Many we have heard before on Smodcast or previous Q and A’s, but there were a [...]
