Since its world premiere at the Dallas International Film Festival this weekend, reviews have been pouring in for our film Cinema Six.

Film Threat: 5 Stars. I urge you, if you like to laugh, to find out where Cinema Six is playing next and go check it out [...] It’s quirky, awkward and naughty in all the right ways. It’s an easy parallel to say that it reminded me of Clerks [...] but when I make the comparison I’m thinking less of the plot and more of the way Kevin Smith created a rhythm to his profane dialogue that elevated the entire experience into iconic status. Cinema Six has a similar groove to its profanity and hilarity, and I can’t praise that comic cadence enough. See the f**king film as soon as you can!

D Magazine: Go See It. It’s quick, fun filmmaking at its finest [...] It feels like a deeply personal film, but one that can be appreciated by anyone who’s held a job just for the money. Cinema Six also reaches Departed levels of vulgarity and profanity, complete with defecation. In other words: it’s pretty close to perfect.

IndieWire: Mark Potts and Cole Selix’s slacker comedy Cinema Six resembles a movie theater-set version of Office Space with the same kind of raunchy humor and quarter-to-mid-life ennui. [...] The film offers more than dirty jokes and profanity as some surprisingly serious moments pop in as well. Lead actor John Merriman handles comedy and drama with equal ease and the whole cast delivers with a fair share of absurd comedic moments.

More reviews after the jump…

Smells Like Screen Spirit: Very few comedies are consistently funny [...] while also containing a strong, noteworthy narrative. Despite its sublime knack for obscenity and vulgarity, Cinema Six is a very deep film. [...] I cannot recall a recent comedy that is as emotionally complex as Cinema Six. (I also never knew that hearing Barry Corbin discuss his sex life could be so damn hilarious!)

Art and Seek: Best Bet. This is the kind of self-reflexive movie that film festivals are built on [...] the zingers between the co-workers are hilariously vile.

Pegasus News: The chemistry of the leads [...] jumps off the screen as much as the outlandish, expletive-filled dialog that brings to mind films such as Superbad and Animal House. [...] If you’re craving truly realistic comedic narrative and have never worked at a theater, Cinema Six shows what life is like on the other side of the ticket booth.

PulpLizard Media: The film’s strength are the talented actors that make you wonder “where did these guys come from?” and you instantly know it’s only a matter of time before someone puts them in a Apatow film. The other strength is the screenplay. Potts and Selix make it look easy, but the inside scoop is that they work extremely hard to make entertaining films.

We’re very excited to announce that Mark Potts and Cole Selix’s Cinema Six is going to have it world premiere at the Dallas International Film Festival and to celebrate we’ve released the film’s trailer [NSFW] and poster (designed by Yen Tan, Otto is the One). In addition, Cinema Six has received a healthy amount of press this week from Film Threat, Smells Like Screen Spirit, Film School Rejects, and Slackerwood.

UPDATE (02.27.12): Screen Junkies will cut you if you don’t watch the trailer.

UPDATE (02.29.12): We decided to remove the profanity from our trailer to create a “family friendly” version.

UPDATE (03.02.12): …and now the trailer is on FilmDrunk!

For more on the film’s progress like it on Facebook and follow it on Twitter.

…if I was a praying man, I would be praying that Don Swaynos’ Pictures of Superheroes and Mark Potts and Cole Selix’s Cinema Six will get accepted into SXSW 2012, because if I have to wait much longer to see either of those films I am going to freakin’ explode! 

In addition, The Austin Chronicle calls me a superhero and says they love me and Slackerwood discusses the trailer and the premiere of Six Hundred and Forty-One Slates.

Sorry, I made an experimental short film. It’s called Six Hundred and Forty-One Slates and it’s a compilation of every slate marker from the production of an independent film.

It’s going to have it’s world premiere February 9th at the Berlin International Director’s Lounge and its US Premiere a few days later at the Strange Beauty Film Festival on February 16th- exactly a year and a day after we started production on Cinema Six, the film from which the titular slates come from. You can see the full Strange Beauty line-up over at Bad Lit.

Bad Lit just posted a teaser trailer for my (almost-finished) feature film Pictures of Superheroes. Check out Bad Lit’s write-up here or check out the teaser after the jump.

For more on the film, visit the official site, or follow it on Twitter, tumblr, and/or Facebook.

Pictures of Superheroes (Teaser Trailer) on Vimeo

Pictures of Superheroes (Teaser Trailer) on YouTube

Blood Brew, my surreal horror-comedy tribute to ’60′s drive-in films like The Undertaker and his Pals and The Gruesome Twosome, was a semi-finalist at Screamfest LA. You can find more information about the script after the jump and find a full list of finalists at Dread Central.

Plot synopsis: When two slackers are in need of rent money one decides to capture the local serial killer and collect a bounty while the other gets a job at a bar that caters to some unusual clientele (pssst… they’re vampires).

I’d either like to produce the film or option the script. If anyone might be interested and would like to read it, send me an e-mail.

I’ve been doing a poor job of posting project updates on here, fortunately The Austin American Statesman published a list of Texas films currently in production which includes two of the films I’m currently working on. The article discusses Jollyville Pictures’ Pictures of Superheroes (which I wrote, directed, produced, and edited) and Mark Potts and Cole Selix’s A Splice of Life (pictured above, which I produced and edited).

I’m officially about to start editing the feature-length horror-satire Zombex. The film is written and directed by Jesse Dayton (Rob Zombie’s Halloween II) and stars David Christopher, Lew Temple, Malcolm McDowell, Sid Haig, Corey Feldman, Kinky Friedman, X’s John Doe, and Slayer’s Tom Araya. Shooting wrapped last week and the film has already received mentions at Dread Central and FEARNet. For more you can visit the films’s website, follow it on Twitter, or like it on Facebook.

Once we wrap, Kelly and I will jump into production on Mark Potts and Cole Selix’s A Splice of Life, which you can also follow on Twitter.