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...

A Screenplay Reading

It seems a long time ago that I sat down with a group of actors and read through the screenplay for The Big Something. But it was only last December. We crowded the lobby of Phoenix’s Space 55 and played through what would be Running Wild’s first feature....

Night Train to…

A couple months ago at the Tempe library with film patron Mark Wright, I spotted a DVD for a movie called Night Train. It looked cheap, old, and no good. I could tell from the back that it was Polish, made around the same time as Knife in the Water. I showed Mark and...