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We celebrate Brad's birthday talk cowboy beebop and which animes we'd like to see live-action adaptations of.
Episode 25 - Live Q and A and Fanmail! Raw and unedited audio from the Live Youtube show. https://www.youtube.com/user/AnimeAmericaPodcast
Raw and unedited audio from the Live Youtube show. Join us Live every Friday at 7:30 pm EST on youtube! https://www.youtube.com/user/AnimeAmericaPodcast
We answer questions and celebrate BaldingEwok's Birthday.
More ramblings about anime as Robyn introduces Brad to more anime and answers questions from the audience.
Today we have YouTuber PhantomStrider is a wholesome YouTuber who is known for his top ten lists and reviews of movies and modern cartoons like SpongeBob and South Park. He gives us his opinions on anime and drops some knowledge on us with some writing advice. Stay til the end for a funny game of Quiplash 3!
Robyn from the Anime America Podcast Youtube channel brings BaldingEwok up to date on the state of the Anime world. Topics discussed range from Funimation Drama, the Vic Mignogna Debacle and Gamer Gate.
This episode we cover four different thinking styles that can really help you diversify and manage your team. How to identify and use these different thinking styles to build a well rounded team for your film.
This is the first episode in a series of episodes on how we produced our film Really Pathetic & Totally Awkward on a zero budget. In this episode we discuss pre-production.
After 81 episodes of Film Reverie, we decided to start shooting video for them as well. This is our most recent episode where we give all kinds of updates on the podcast, our filmmaking, and the future of Film Reverie.
We're back with a bonus episode with Alex Ferrari from Indie Film Hustle Podcast. He talks about his new book RISE OF THE FILMTREPRENEUR and how to turn your filmmaking into a business and fund you filmmaking addiction.
This week we spoke with Sean Mannion, a Brooklyn based filmmaker, about his award winning indie film MEME and his process for getting it shot, in the can, into festivals, and distributing the film himself. Great conversation, great insight from an interesting filmmaker.
This week we talked to Julian Baner, Rachel Comeau, and Bry Reid, the trio behind Some Southern Waters. They came by to talk about blurring genres, artistic integrity, making an entertaining film and everything else in between.
This episode we had a great chat with Justin Giddings, The Kickstarter Guy. He shed a lot of light on crowdfunding tips and breaking through to the next level of crowdfunding for films to help you get your film funded.
This week we review two films. Alita: Battle Angel and Lego Movie 2: The Second Part.
In this episode of Movieisms we find out what BaldingEwok wants in our What Men Want Review. We also talk about our expectations and hopes for Alita Battle Angel when it comes out next week.
In this episode we got to review the new Peter Jackson directed documentary about British soldiers in WW1, using 100 year old archive footage called They Shall Never Grow Old.
In this episode we had a great conversation with Brendan Rogers and Aléa Figueroa of And You Films to talk about their filmmaking and YouTube Channel where they have spent the last few years building a huge audience with their weekly content. We talked about distribution, filmmaking, marketing, and audience building!
We are finally back from winter hiatus and we break in the new year with our Glass review.
This episode we talk to Tim Ritter, an Orlando based filmmaker and teacher who has made two micro budget feature films in recent years and has a lot to share about how to get your film made for next to nothing.
We spoke with Writer and Director Jack Marchetti about optioning and selling three screenplays to ION TV as well as licensing music for films.
Part 2 of a 2 part series: THE 7 CHARACTER TYPES FOR WRITING SCREENPLAYS. We share our secrets on how to write strong, fully developed & believable characters. In this episode we discuss the seven characters from the previous episode and quintessential definitive examples of them in movies and TV.
In this episode of Film Reverie we talk about the seven characters. We use these characters to break down and understand the different personality types in human beings as well as characters in movies. We show you how you can use them to write and create fully drawn, believable characters in your screenplays.
In this week's episode we are once again joined by our long time friend (KOOGE) Kujaatele Kweli to reveal the top 13 Hollywood villains movies.
We might've broke BaldingEwok this week on Movieisms with our Ralph Breaks The Internet Review. When Brad is happy and Bekemeyer is Grinchy something is wrong with the universe. While currently the number one movie in the country we discuss whether or not it deserves it's title. Ralph Breaks the Internet, starring John C. Reilly and Sarah Silverman made BaldingEwok's heart grow two sizes. We also discuss the new trailer for Toy Story 4, with Key and Peele.
This episode of Film Reverie we had the pleasure of talking to filmmaker Stephen Stull, who is also the Festival Director of the Sick 'N Wrong Film Festival a festival strictly for what he calls those "aggressively bizarre" films you generally only see at midnight screenings. Stephen was a lot of fun to talk to and had a lot to say about how he found and cultivated his creative voice and gave some great tips on what you should be thinking about when trying to get your film into a festival. If you would like to get tickets to the Sick 'N Wrong film festival in Orlando, FL click this link: https://filmfreeway.com/SicknWrongFilmFestival/ticketsAnd use the promo code "SnWFilmRev" to get a 25% discount on your purchase!
We have good times on the El Movieisms show with our Bad Times at the El Royale Review. This Tarrantino-esque film stars Jeff Bridges, Jon Hamm, Nick Offerman, Chris Helmsworth, Dakota Johnson and is written and directed by Drew Goddard. We also talk a little about First Man and why we still haven't seen Venom.
Bekemeyer goes primal on BaldingEwok in our The Predator review. Check out this explosive episode as they argue over the latest in the Predator franchise.
This episode of Movieisms we talk about our last trip to the movies, have a review of the new quiet subversive sci-fi film Kin, talk about why we didn't want to review Peppermint, gush over the trailers for the new Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga film A Star is Born, and finally talk about franchise fatigue and the new Movie Predator.
This week's episode is a double feature. We talk about Operation Finale, the new film starring Oscar Isaac and Ben Kingsley and Searching, the computer screen POV film that sold at Sundance earlier in the year and is making it's way into theaters.
Today we talk with actor and screenwriter Bob Saenz who has been working in the business for decades. He has acted in Nash Bridges, written screenplays for Lifetime, including the very popular Help For the Holidays that is a favorite to everyone who sees it.
This episode we have our review of the new puppet-human hybrid comedy Happpytime Murders starring Melissa McCarthy and a bunch of puppets, directed by Brian Henson.
In this episode of the Bekemeyer and Brad talk about filmmaking, raising money, and getting it made one way or the other.
This episode of Movieisms we recommend a couple of movies. First up is Crazy Rich Asians, the first asian centric film from Hollywood in 25 years. Next we talk about a film on Hulu called Vengeance of an Assassin which has some pretty cool action scenes and fight choreography.
This week's Movieisms we have our review for the new Mark Walburg action film Mile 22, also starring Lauren Cohan and John Malkovich and directed by Peter Berg.
In this episode we give our review of the new movie The Meg starring Jason Statham and discuss people's obsession with intentionally bad movies.
Hello Film Reverie listeners! This week we have an all Bekemeyer and BaldingEwok episode. We talk about our summer show schedule and talk about our up and coming filmmaking plans. Listen in to hear all about it.
In this episode of Film Reverie it’s just Brad and Michael talking about their recent trip to the Orlando Film Festival. Just some chatter about what we got out of spending all that time hanging out, watching indie films with indie filmmakers. We also discuss the origins of The Balding Ewok.
Just Michael and Brad in the episode. We talk about why we love making movies and why we feel compelled to be creative and fight through all the nonsense to keep making movies. We also talk about Kevin Smith’s recent appearance on The Nerdist podcast where he gives a pretty compelling speech about clearing out all the noise and just doing that thing that makes you happy.