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I got back from ActionFest late on Sunday afternoon. And I’m still whomp-boggingly exhausted from the sheer awesomeness of it! Part of me wants to crawl back into bed and try to recuperate some more. But being a responsible blogger, I can’t do that!

So here’s my report comin’ atcha!!

(I said it during my live Twitter-ing from ActionFest and I’ll say it again: the girl in the bumper that ran during this year’s festival is cute as a button! :-P)

There was also a “30 Seconds of Action” competition for this year’s festival. Here was the winning entry: “Action Figures”…

And here’s another “30 Seconds of Action” entry: “Death Machine”…

I’ve been looking for the “Farmacide” clip, but can’t find it on YouTube yet. If anyone else at ActionFest this year spots it, let me know at theknightshift@gmail.com ‘cuz I loved it 🙂

This was ActionFest’s second year. And ...

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I am… frazzled.

But then again, four nearly nonstop days of action movies at the world’s only film festival devoted to action movies and the (largely unsung) talented individuals who make them happen, will do that to anyone. Heck, just back-to-back nights of Never Back Down 2, Black Dynamite and Hobo With A Shotgun is enough to pack a wallop!

Full report coming soon. I gotta decompress first 😛...

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“The Film Festival With A Body Count” is back… BIGGER AND BADDER AND BLOODIER THAN EVER!

Yes faithful readers, in a short while I shall depart home for a few days and drive out into the dusk for the mountains of North Carolina. Destination: Asheville. The reason? the second-ever ActionFest! The inaugural festival last year was a huge success (here’s the after-carnage report that I posted) and this year is gonna be even more honkin’ sweet! It all kicks off tomorrow night, April 7th with Ironclad: a hack ‘n slash epic set against the signing of the Magna Carta and starring Paul Giamatti, James Purefoy, Brian Cox, Jason Flemyng.

And what else is playing at ActionFest? How about… Hobo With A Shotgun!

And Friday night at midnight… because this is soooo a movie that must be seen at midnight on the big screen… it’s none ...

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I’ve more than a gut feeling that this past weekend was but the first of many, many years for ActionFest: the first ever film festival devoted to action movies.

It all went down at Carolina Cinemas in Asheville, North Carolina. And your friend and humble blogger was there for most of the spectacle!

Several weeks ago my filmmaking partner (and old college roomie) “Weird” Ed Woody told me about ActionFest, being that it was happening in his neck of the woods. My calendar was empty for the weekend save for a friend’s wedding on Sunday, so we ordered our badges and I lodged at Ed’s inner sanctum somewhere between Asheville and the dark territory known to the locals as “Little Canada” (note to revenuers: do not go in there). On Thursday morning I headed out to Asheville, spent a few hours seeing my old adopted hometown again and even ...

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…did I miss anything?! 😛

Have a friend’s wedding on the morrow, but between now and Monday after I get good and refreshed from the past few days I’ll share all the awesome good stuff that went down at ActionFest – the first ever film festival devoted to action movies – during the past few days in Asheville.

(BTW, Tucker & Dale vs. Evil ROCKS!!! Can’t wait to talk more about it 🙂...

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A friendly reminder for those of you lucky enough to be attending South By Southwest (SXSW) 2010 in Austin, Texas (which begins today) that Alexandre O. Philippe’s much-anticipated documentary The People vs. George Lucas will have its world premiere tomorrow night!

Man oh man, wish I could be going to this thing (I will be attending a production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street this weekend though :-). The People vs. George Lucas has already started garnering some high-profile attention and it’s prolly gonna skyrocket after tomorrow night.

Here’s the latest trailer for it. And yes: that is Melody Hallman Daniel from our own film Forcery that you see at 44 seconds into it!

Alexandre has told me that he wound up using Forcery quite a bit in The People vs. George Lucas. So, I am delighted that I got to make a bit of ...

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