As the nostalgic references keep piling up, all the glamorous faces, sweaty outsiders, vibrant marquees, hot spots, and shindigs reverberate as though conjured up by a cinephile's melancholy spell.
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Exclusive Interview: Filmmaker Linda Palmer on Her Quirky and Touching ‘Turnover’
This new film by writer/director Linda Palmer will make you love the characters. It's a quirky but charming story of people down on their luck who end up helping one another in spite of themselves.
Read More »NAB 2019: The Making of ‘Apollo 11’
Rarely does a documentary film not only relate past events, but along the way preserve the culture and set new standards for future filmmaking: Apollo 11, currently in theaters, does just that. At the 2019 NAB Show, the National Association of Broadcasters industry meetup in Las Vegas, April 5-11, filmmaker …
Read More »NAB 2019: ‘Spider-Man into the Spider-Verse’ from Sketch to Oscar
I saw the film Spider-Man into the Spider-Verse earlier this year, because I had some time to kill. I was incredibly surprised, because the story and animation blew me away. At the annual meetup of the National Association of Broadcasters — The NAB Show — held April 6-11, 2019, in …
Read More »SXSW 2019: Robert Rodriguez Film School and ‘Red 11’
Robert Rodriguez ('El Mariachi') gave an audience valuable lessons on low-budget filmmaking at SXSW 2019.
Read More »SXSW 2019 Exclusive Interview: The Creator and Cast of ‘Ms. White Light’
The writer/director and cast of the darkly humorous comedy/drama, 'Ms. White Light,' discuss the characters they portrayed and what the film means to them.
Read More »Movie Review: Australian Drama ‘West of Sunshine’
Lensed in attractive widescreen around the suburbs of Melbourne, 'West of Sunshine' is the assured feature debut of writer/director Jason Raftopolous
Read More »Indie Filmmaking: Getting the Cart Before the ‘Black Sheep’
“Getting the cart before the horse” is an English idiom dating back to the 16th Century. It means to do things in the wrong order. In the independent filmmaking world, however, this might be a good idea. In the case I’m considering, two highly creative filmmakers put the cart before …
Read More »San Antonio Film Festival Review: the Baseball Comedy ‘Benched’
John C. McGinley and Garret Dillahunt star as clashing Little League coaches in an entertaining film adaptation of Richard Dresser's play 'Rounding Third.'
Read More »RTX Panel: Writer’s Block Party
Sunday, August 5, 4:30 pm. Surely, this writer focused panel at the very end of the Rooster Teeth Experience (RTX) Austin 2018 wouldn’t be crowded. Wrong. To my amazement, even the writers for online entertainment hub Roster Teeth have fans who packed the extra-large meeting room at the Austin Convention …
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