DVD Review
Office of the Dead
Directed by: Matthew Chung
Cast: Teddy Chen Culver, Christina July Kim, Shawn Parikh
Running Time: 1 hr, 12 min
Rating: R
Due Out: August 10, 2010
Plot: Life Corp has developed a method for electronically “rewriting” negative thoughts and sending them back into the brain as positive and affirming. Only there’s a minor glitch with the program: it turns its recipients into zombies. Now zombies are running amok in the Life Corp offices and Ben (Culver), Liz (Kim), and Raj (Parikh) have to make it out alive.
Who’S It For? It’s a vanity project for the people who made it. Not even really potent marijuana and a Lazy Susan of munchies can salvage it.
Overall
Office of the Dead was a great idea, but it failed miserably on two equally crucial fronts: 1) zombie movie and 2) corporate parody. It needed to pull off one of those...
Office of the Dead
Directed by: Matthew Chung
Cast: Teddy Chen Culver, Christina July Kim, Shawn Parikh
Running Time: 1 hr, 12 min
Rating: R
Due Out: August 10, 2010
Plot: Life Corp has developed a method for electronically “rewriting” negative thoughts and sending them back into the brain as positive and affirming. Only there’s a minor glitch with the program: it turns its recipients into zombies. Now zombies are running amok in the Life Corp offices and Ben (Culver), Liz (Kim), and Raj (Parikh) have to make it out alive.
Who’S It For? It’s a vanity project for the people who made it. Not even really potent marijuana and a Lazy Susan of munchies can salvage it.
Overall
Office of the Dead was a great idea, but it failed miserably on two equally crucial fronts: 1) zombie movie and 2) corporate parody. It needed to pull off one of those...
- 9/15/2010
- by Morrow McLaughlin
- The Scorecard Review
Lumina the Web Series wins Best Editing category in The 14th Annual Webby Awards. This is the groundbreaking Hong Kong web series’ eleventh award distinction since its online release last fall. Previous honors include one Streamy Awards nomination for Best Cinematography, six Indie Soap Awards nominations, including for Best Writing and Best Directing, and three American Soap World Awards nominations.
"I am so proud of my team, especially of our editor Bettina Enigl for her hard work and dedication to her craft," says Lumina writer and director Jennifer Thym. "This is a great honor and I hope our success encourages other filmmakers to explore the web series medium..."
Written and directed by first time American director Jennifer Thym and the debut release from her film production company RockGinger, Lumina the Web Series is a dark densely woven fantasy series set against the sparkling backdrop of Hong Kong. Lumina stars actress JuJu Chan,...
"I am so proud of my team, especially of our editor Bettina Enigl for her hard work and dedication to her craft," says Lumina writer and director Jennifer Thym. "This is a great honor and I hope our success encourages other filmmakers to explore the web series medium..."
Written and directed by first time American director Jennifer Thym and the debut release from her film production company RockGinger, Lumina the Web Series is a dark densely woven fantasy series set against the sparkling backdrop of Hong Kong. Lumina stars actress JuJu Chan,...
- 4/19/2010
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
Jennifer Thym's original Hong Kong fantasy web series Lumina jumps from the little screen to the big screen at this past weekend’s Clockenflap Music & Multi-Media Arts Festival held at Hong Kong’s Cyberport. An estimated 3,500 festival attendees had the opportunity to view the Saturday and Sunday screenings of the first Lumina webisode, which to date has been available exclusively online.
“It’s an honor to be invited to the Clockenflap festival and to be part of this exciting time in Hong Kong indie cinema,” says Lumina writer/director Jennifer Thym. “We’re excited about expanding our audience worldwide.”
With over 30,000 views online from word of mouth and grassroots marketing, Lumina's viewership is growing strong, especially with the young female set. In the last month, 30% of all Lumina viewers on YouTube were females between the ages of 13 and 17; the next largest demographic (15%) were males between the ages of 25 and 34...
The...
“It’s an honor to be invited to the Clockenflap festival and to be part of this exciting time in Hong Kong indie cinema,” says Lumina writer/director Jennifer Thym. “We’re excited about expanding our audience worldwide.”
With over 30,000 views online from word of mouth and grassroots marketing, Lumina's viewership is growing strong, especially with the young female set. In the last month, 30% of all Lumina viewers on YouTube were females between the ages of 13 and 17; the next largest demographic (15%) were males between the ages of 25 and 34...
The...
- 11/12/2009
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
Directed and written by Jennifer Thym
Featuring Juju Chan, Michael Chan, Jacob Ziacan, Shell Z. Zhu, Vince Matthew Chung
www.luminaseries.com
Review by Jessica Baxter
Written, directed and produced by Jennifer Thym, Lumina is a nine-part web series set in a complex universe of rival realms that are secretly politicizing unbeknownst to the people of modern day Hong Kong. Lumina is a beautiful young girl who is inadvertently drawn into a world she doesn’t understand. Recently broken-hearted, she has immersed herself in work and become the star employee at some sort of think tank. It’s not until she meets the man in the mirror that she realized just how lonely she’s been...
The man in the mirror is Ryder, who can see her in all reflective surfaces via a special mirror he has acquired in his world, the Dark Realm. Lumina knows very little about his world,...
Featuring Juju Chan, Michael Chan, Jacob Ziacan, Shell Z. Zhu, Vince Matthew Chung
www.luminaseries.com
Review by Jessica Baxter
Written, directed and produced by Jennifer Thym, Lumina is a nine-part web series set in a complex universe of rival realms that are secretly politicizing unbeknownst to the people of modern day Hong Kong. Lumina is a beautiful young girl who is inadvertently drawn into a world she doesn’t understand. Recently broken-hearted, she has immersed herself in work and become the star employee at some sort of think tank. It’s not until she meets the man in the mirror that she realized just how lonely she’s been...
The man in the mirror is Ryder, who can see her in all reflective surfaces via a special mirror he has acquired in his world, the Dark Realm. Lumina knows very little about his world,...
- 10/14/2009
- by thebaxter
- Planet Fury
Remember when we told you about Jennifer Thym's Hong Kong fantasy/sci-fi thriller web series Lumina? Well, the series, written and directed by Thym, has just been signed by American Web TV Channel KoldCast.
“This past week has been amazing,” says Lumina writer and director Jennifer Thym. “... I'm so excited that Lumina is now on their slate - it's a big step for a new Hong Kong production like ours!"
Marti Resteghini, VP, Network Programming at KoldCast TV, says that KoldCast has been looking for a special series with which to launch its new International channel. “Lumina is a thrilling fairytale about love, longing and greed...
"It's a timeless story that just so happens to be taking place in Hong Kong. Jennifer Thym’s strikingly beautiful series has raised the bar for web programming - both here and abroad,” says Resteghini.
Creating worlds is a passion and one that Thym enjoys.
“This past week has been amazing,” says Lumina writer and director Jennifer Thym. “... I'm so excited that Lumina is now on their slate - it's a big step for a new Hong Kong production like ours!"
Marti Resteghini, VP, Network Programming at KoldCast TV, says that KoldCast has been looking for a special series with which to launch its new International channel. “Lumina is a thrilling fairytale about love, longing and greed...
"It's a timeless story that just so happens to be taking place in Hong Kong. Jennifer Thym’s strikingly beautiful series has raised the bar for web programming - both here and abroad,” says Resteghini.
Creating worlds is a passion and one that Thym enjoys.
- 9/23/2009
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
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