John Wildman, Author at Films Gone Wild

Shorts and to The Point

SHORTS and to the Point: Jennifer Sheridan and Matthew Markham ‘s SET ADRIFT is a sad doggie story that will make you cry in 8 minutes flat

By John Wildman 9 years ago

You also have to know what the correct incentive to use to get the right emotion. For example, if you want to evoke a sense of longing/ pensiveness then use chicken or turkey, but if you need a more alert/ concentrated look- you should use a tennis ball. It’s all about how to get the best performance out of your actor and Bowie is no exception. I’ve yet to try the chicken technique with real actors though.

Shorts and to The Point

SHORTS and to the Point: Matt Mercer’s FEEDING TIME serves up a tasty scares + laughs cinematic snack

By John Wildman 9 years ago

Even if people aren’t chortling their heads off, I think the lightness and quirkiness plays. And the main reason I say my concern was mostly with the laughs is because I think first introducing some buoyancy into the proceedings opens the audience up for the scares later. I think it makes the scares more impactful as the film plays out.

Films Gone Wild

FILMS GONE WILD: The Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s Cary Darling shows everyone how to actually be a film journalist by making a single phone call

By John Wildman 9 years ago

when Cary posted his story, I found several more details beyond what I included in the press release regarding other festivals some of the films had screened at and awards they won, etc. It’s like Cary actually spent some time researching and looking stuff up.

Shorts and to The Point

SHORTS and to the Point: Rob Savage’s DAWN OF THE DEAF has scares for you – whether you can hear them or not

By John Wildman 9 years ago

I’ve seen every zombie movie under the sun, and I can safely say: it doesn’t matter. They both work. Depends entirely on the kind of horror you want to draw from the scenario. Running zombies keep you on the edge of your seat, always alert. Slow zombies can be comedic, until suddenly they aren’t.

Films Gone Wild

FILMS GONE WILD: So who exactly are the snowflakes? Budweiser’s Super Bowl ad hurts the feelings of delicate conservatives all over again

By John Wildman 9 years ago

Those are the snowflakes, we were told. They, and others like them, in several cities across the country, far outnumbering the Trumpettes that turned out – paid or otherwise, for the inauguration festivities, staked a claim to the country they rightfully share in, refusing to be cowed, and insisting that there ideas would continue to be put forth, and fought for.

SHORTS and to the Point: Marinah Janello ‘s TROLL: A SOUTHERN TALE

By John Wildman 9 years ago

I am particularly inspired by filmmaker Harmony Korine, who in his long and short form narrative works ends up combining his own stories and opinions about living in the South.

Films Gone Wild

FILMS GONE WILD: Today my name is Angela. (Or let’s not sweat the small stuff, shall we?)

By John Wildman 9 years ago

Fortunately, to this day I have not been lynched by the AP Style Society. No one has picketed my house. Justina, my wife, has not had her invitations to the sewing circle rescinded. Okay, there is no sewing circle. And if there was one, I’d deliberately make some more grievous AP Style errors in order to get her kicked out because that would be totally rock n’ roll, right?

Films Gone Wild

FILMS GONE WILD: Hollywood’s New World Order – Amazon and Netflix takes over the business of studios & mid-budget star-driven dramas and comedies

By John Wildman 9 years ago

Is the Amazonianzation and Netflixication of independent film basically just the latest “reset” of what we used to think of as the hierarchy of studio films versus independent films?

Films Gone Wild

FILMS GONE WILD: FESTWORKS.COM covers regional fests and film discoveries that happen there. Do you even give a damn about that?

By John Wildman 9 years ago

We don’t need more Clooney, Kidman, Lawrence, Adams, Streep, Cruise coverage. Monkeys can do that by this point. We need to find the new talent in film, and TV, and VR, etc. We need to give the new voices a forum to discuss their work. We need to help people find the golden film needles in the haystack of VOD titles we scroll past on Amazon and Netflix now.

10 Burning Questions

Ten Burning Questions: Jun Geng ‘s FREE AND EASY

By John Wildman 9 years ago

They live with a painful memory of a bygone past, yet they refuse to throw themselves back to the earlier time often associated with a point of no return, their hometown -which they felt they rebelled with a cause. To a certain extent, the film is indeed a reflection upon contemporary China at a crossroads.