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REVIEW: GONE GIRL

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"No, don't stop! I haven't seen it yet!" "Shhhhhh... lalalalalalala I'm not listening, I'm not listening!" "AHHHP! AHHP AHHP AHHP! Don't say another word, you will not ruin this for me!" All of the above are common phrases you will hear when you begin to try to talk about David Fincher's latest film Gone Girl , an adaptation of Gillian Flynn's ubiquitous, bestselling novel of 2012. I couldn't go anywhere on vacation without seeing a copy of it in a tourist's hands, that sable cover with wisps of a woman's hair taunting me to come and pick it up. It's length alone intimidated me. So when I heard critics and people online saying "How can you NOT have heard of all the plot twists?" I just cupped my hands over my uncultured hears and pressed the red X at the top of the window. I was not having this movie ruined for me. And thats why I'm sympathetic with you, the reader, who may be going through my

MY SECOND FINISHED SHORT FILM!

I believe last year I wrote that, after my short film Keeping it P.C. was released, that my next project, The Good Old Days was coming out later that summer. A year and a half later, and it's finally available on YouTube, and can be seen right HERE! There was more than our fair share of production problems. We could not, for the life of us, us being director/editor/actor Aaron Haynes and producer/actor Emilio Kalogiannis and myself, the writer/actor (we're a very small team) find someone to fit the role of Jaquizz, one of the six characters in our film. It's not like we're holding auditions and were finicky...we were begging people to come fill the roles of this essential character, and finally, a few months ago, during those last few precious days of summer before we all started college, we got Alex Manhertz, who added a great deal of character to the small but pivotal role of Jaquizz. The idea of this film came from watching an episode of "Leave it to Beaver&q