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Published August 4, 2021, 8:36 AM TikTok, the leading destination for short-form mobile videos, has become a haven where gamers and gaming streamers can share and view creative content related to their favorite games. With short-form videos, gaming creators get to focus on specific moments within a game, from epic showdowns to monster kills, and even spotlight players and characters that they love. TikTok also makes it easy for anyone to create entertaining and engaging content that showcase their passions, with the help of editing tools that are easy to use and help boost creativity. The ga...
"Be warned: this will shock, alarm, repulse, and revolt you!" Showtime has unveiled an official trailer for a series titled Cinema Toast, an experimental pandemic-created mash-up of old cinema classics. Created by filmmaker Jeff Baena, "Cinema Toast" takes old footage now in the public domain, and updates it again. "Wildly experimental new series from an eclectic group of celebrated indie filmmakers who’ve re-edited and re-scored footage from public domain films and overdubbed them with performances of contemporary actors to tell new, wholly original stories." The fun voiceover cast inclu...
Kris Rey, David Lowery, and Jeff Baena himself will deliver a variety of stories that sound rather experimental and compelling. Aubrey Plaza’s episode “Quiet Illness” creates a portrait of an emotionally tortured modern woman using footage of Loretta Young. Marta Cunningham delivers a Night of the Living Dead-inspired story called “Attack of the Karens,” which takes clear inspiration from a certain kind of American woman who has become all to prominent in recent years. Mel Eslyn digs into mumblecore laughs and monsters with “Beast From Haunted Cave.” And finally, Alex Ross Per...