Real Horror

A week ago I dug through a collection of DVDs I owe to Mark Wright (patron of cinema) and found some films by F.W. Murnau I hadn’t scene. If you’re not familiar with Murnau, he was a pioneer of cinema; a German director responsible for Nosferatu (the first...

Pollack Tempe Cinemas: A Home for Movies

A month ago, I spoke with Adam Schenck, the manager of Michael Pollack’s Tempe Cinemas, about hosting the premier for our movie The Big Something. Only after we made the final decision to screen the film there, did I realize how important this choice was to my...

Running Wild Presents: Detective Shaves

We present our newest short movie. Another experiment in the Noir genre and our first exploration of still imagery, Detective Shaves continues the Running Wild tradition of provocative storytelling. The Detective was played by Travis Mills and the Girl by Lindsey...

The Best Cowboy Movies

In honor of the cowboy movie we’re shooting this weekend, Comanche, and my continued debates with actor Rob Edwards about what a good Western is (he’s a big fan of Gunsmoke), I’ll written up a list of the Westerns I’m most fond of. Now first...

The Importance of Shorts

Not long after we finished shooting our first feature, The Big Something, a fellow filmmaker was in shock to hear that I still wanted to make short films. I was equally baffled. Had all these movies, these stories I’d told been stepping stones to a higher level...