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96th best baseball movie of all-time – JOE TORRE: CURVEBALLS ALONG THE WAY, 1997

Cable TV networks like to produce wanky films that attempt to tug at your heartstrings. There are about two dozen of them made every year. They are always done on the cheap and usually are about a real-life story of some kind so people are already familiar with the particulars. Before Cable, the original networks… Continue reading 96th best baseball movie of all-time – JOE TORRE: CURVEBALLS ALONG THE WAY, 1997

www.thefilmfestivalhome.com – Interviews the WILDsound Film and Writing Festival

Originally posted on WILDsound Festival:
We are a feedback festival, so each film that plays gets a Q&A moderation video as the Toronto audience talks about each film screened. It’s not a judgmental thing where people have their thumbs up or down for example about each film. It’s really a discussion on the themes of…

Wrong Place, Wrong Crime – November 2014 Film Festival

Originally posted on WILDsound Festival:
It’s a little surreal. It’s amazing that people in Toronto got to see our little film! And I was surprised about the comments. Often people in Q & A sessions are only interested in single aspects about the films they’ve watched. But your audience analyzed our short on so many…

97th Best Baseball Movie of All-Time: TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE

Clint Eastwood’s longtime 1st Assistant Director, Robert Lorenz, has a movie he wants to make about baseball. The anti-Moneyball as you can say. (Or, the other side of the baseball world and why the Moneyball people stink movie). Eastwood is a loyal guy. If you look at his crews from the time he started directing… Continue reading 97th Best Baseball Movie of All-Time: TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE

FOXCATCHER, The Text Message Review

I want to talk to you about how he (director Bennett Miller) framed this film in a cinematic story. The first half we are with Mark Shultz (Channing Tatum). We see what he sees. How he observes life etc..? He’s in every single scene. Then at the half-way point we begin to see the world… Continue reading FOXCATCHER, The Text Message Review

BELUSHI’S TOILET – EPISODE 1, Short Film from November 2014 Film Festival

Originally posted on WILDsound Festival:
I was very pleased with the feedback. I was thrilled that the first audience member felt uncomfortable after watching it. Film-making is about stirring emotions. Good or bad. – Director Andrew Wright, on his reaction to the audience’s reaction in the discussion format at the WILDsound Film Festival (Review) The…

Top 10 Football Movies of the 2000s (2000 to Present)

Football Movies. You wonder why Hollywood doesn’t make more of them considering the sport to so popular in comparison to the other sports. The only concern is that these movies don’t play well overseas because they only play football in North America and the rest of the world doesn’t know what the heck is going… Continue reading Top 10 Football Movies of the 2000s (2000 to Present)

WILDsound’s Top 100 Comedy Movies of All-Time

“I’m very important. I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany.” — Ron Burgundy Late last year the WILDsound organizers came out with the list of the 100 Greatest Comedy Movies of All-Time. And to make things even funner, there is a link review to each page on the site as… Continue reading WILDsound’s Top 100 Comedy Movies of All-Time

98th best Baseball Movie of all time – HEADIN HOME, 1920

Headin Home is the fictionalized version of how Babe Ruth became Babe Ruth. Of course, as in most propaganda/promotion videos about a person or organization, none of it is really true. 1920 was an interesting time as Babe Ruth just got “traded” to the New York Yankees from the Boston Red Sox. He was becoming… Continue reading 98th best Baseball Movie of all time – HEADIN HOME, 1920

A Black Comedy? The BIRDMAN Text Message Review

I thoroughly enjoyed it. Beautiful to watch and listen to with an amazing cast. It was the movie equivalent of the perfect outfit. Good looking, tailored to perfection and composed of the best quality fabric.  – My friend AK on her reactions to seeing Birdman Matthew Toffolo to WB: Did you like the Bird?… Continue reading A Black Comedy? The BIRDMAN Text Message Review