Welcome back to Movie Bark!

We talk a little Star Trek with dedicated fans of the property, Carlo Rodriguez and Hannah Hass.

Indie film festival pioneer Bill Hass joins us to talk about the upcoming Fort Worth Indie Film Showcase.

Don't want to miss it.

"Waiting on Time" by Texas Renegade

CHAPTERS
3:21: Carlo on Star Trek
46:27: Hannah on Star Trek
55:01:  Fort Worth Indie Film Showcase Director Bill Hass
01:14:32:  Wrap Up

Our special memorial day episode.

James talks about the meaning of the day, seeing the movies in the military and some ways to help vets keep seeing movies even when deployed.

We hope you will check out 22 Kill and consider supporting so many vets that need our help.

We're joined by CW4 (Ret) Eric Adair. He and James served together and they reminisce while talking war movies and the meaning of service.

Carlo Rodriguez is back for Binge Worthy and we talk about our favorite Band of Brothers.

Chapters

The Austin Revolution Film Festival is near its regular deadline! Submit here.

Jason Tostevin is back with a jam packed #BetterFesting. What do you do when you get accepted to a fest? It's more complicated than you think and you need to prepare for it.

Chip Chase (Teacher/Coach/ Lead Streamer and Producer for Real Talk Gaming & Sports) joins us for some Star Wars Talk. You can find him here:
Twitch Stream
YouTube

AND, James gives you his thoughts on these petitions fans are launching to have their favorite properties re-made. Yeah. He's not into it. 

00:03:02: #BetterFesting w Jason Tostevin: Festival Acceptance

00:45:57.  Chip Chase Chasin’ Star Wars

01:06:15.  Closing Out Petitions

Thanks to Texas Renegade for the tunes!

Alyssia Rivera hosts a directing panel at the Austin Student Film Festival.

Cedric Thomas Smith, David Reyes and James Christopher talk about their processes, the best and worst parts of making films, their own work (what they love and hate) and how they get their writing done.

They talk their favorite movies of the last 5 years, how to direct actors and even a little bit on Avengers: Endgame. 

We visit with OKC filmmaker Trevor Lee Rodgers about his film Driven, his efforts to raise the filmmaking opportunities in Oklahoma, and his love of sports and sports movies.

Jason Tostevin of the Nightmares Film Festival is back with #BetterFesting to talk about the thing no one likes: rejection.

Carlo Rodriguez is binging DEAD TO ME and you should too.

Savannah Rodgers is badass and the 3rd Rail is back.

The Austin Revolution Film Festival is closing in on its regular deadline. Submit here. 

CHAPTERS
00:00:24: Opening on IT and Cameron
00:04:50: #BetterFesting w Jason Tostevin: Rejections
00:27:39: Bing Worthy with Carlo Rodriguez (Dead to Me)
00:41:16:  Meet Trevor Lee Rodgers
01:18:46: Savannah is Awesome and ARFF is Too

May the 4th be with you!

We spend some time talking about Star Wars in our first of a few Star Wars episodes. Mike Donis pops in and we reflect, with Carlo Rodriguez on his new Binge Worthy segment, on the passing of Peter Mayhew.

Jason Tostevin talks laurels on #BetterFesting.

Lisa Belcher talks ARFF.

AND....I SAW ENDGAME! My spoiler (sadly) review is in the episode. if you haven't seen it, check the timecode to make sure you skip past it. 

CHAPTER LIST
00:00:41:     James Christopher on Star Wars
00:11:30:      ARFF: Meet Lisa Belcher
00:17:15:      #BetterFesting with Jason Tostevin (Laurels)
00:43:33:    (Spoilers) Jim and Jess at the Movies (Endgame #1)
00:56:43:    Binge Worthy w/ Carlo Rodriguez
01:16:16:      Mike Donis on Star Wars
01:52:31:      On Peter Mayhew

STAR WARS RANKING:

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. Solo
3. A New Hope
4. Rogue 1
5. The Force Awakens
6. The Last Jedi
7. Return of the Jedi
8. Revenge of the Sith
9. Attack of the Clones
10. Taking a poo and I run out of toilet paper and all that is there is a rabid porcupine
11. Phantom Menace

MARVEL COUNTDOWN 

1. Captain America: Winter Soldier
2. vengers Endgaee
3. Avengers Infinity War. 
4. Captain America
5. Guardians of the Galaxy 
6. Civil War
7. Thor : Ragnarok
8. Ant Man
9. Spider-man Homecoming
10. Iron Man
11. Avengers
12. Black Panther
13. Guardians of the Galaxy 2
14. Ant Man and the Wasp
15. The Incredible Hulk
16. Doctor Strange
17. Captain Marvel
18. Thor
19. Iron Man 3
20. Iron Man 2
21. Avengers 2
22. Thor 2

Fun TENTH episode! With the next Bond film a year away, we’re dedicating this episode to the suave secret agent, none other than 007.

Jason Tostevin joins us for a new segment, #BetterFesting.

Bond, Game of Thrones and spoilers! All packed into this episode.

Thanks to Andy Bertelsen for the tunes!

Submit to ARFF2019 here:

Chapters:
0:00:  Opening/The Best Bonds
17:12: #BetterFesting
42:42:  Meet Mike Donis
49:01: Bottom Bonds
52:43: 3rd Rail on Spoilers
54:00: Jim and Jess (Not) at the Movies
01:01:29: Final Sequence

Jim is solo for the majority of Episode 9! So what does he do? Movies and baseball. He talks about the importance of the movie Blade and talks about his top ten baseball movies. Full list at the bottom.

For the 3rd Rail, Jim congratulates and offers some advice to the newly accepted filmmakers for the Crimson Screen Horror Film Festival.

We're excited to welcome Emily Kincaid, producer for the amazing Abducted in Plain Sight!

Before she left for Daytona, Jim and Jess went to the movies a whole bunch!

Thanks to Jon English for lending us his voice!

Submit to the Austin Revolution Film Festival.

Jim's Full Baseball Movie List

1. Major League
2. Field of Dreams
3. Bull Durham
4. Fever Pitch
5. Moneyball
6. For Love of the Game
7. Trouble With The Curve
8. 42
9. The Natural
10. Summer Catch
11. Mr. Baseball
12. 8 Men Out
13. 61*
14. The Rookie
15. Sugar 
16. Fear Strikes Out
17. A League of Their Own
18. The Stratton Story
19. Pride of the Yankees
20. Brewster’s Millions 
21. Major League: Back to the Minors
22. Bad News Bears
23. Mr. 3000
24. Mr Destiny 
25. The Scout
26. The Sandlot
27. The Babe
28. Bang the Drum Slowly
29. Cobb
30. Major League 2

DOCS

1. Ken Burns Baseball
2. The Battered Bastards of Baseball 
3. Fastball

CHAPTERS
18:08 - Jim and Jessica At the Movies (Shazam! And Pet Semetary)

37:16 - 3rd Rail: Crimson Screen Horror Film Festival

41:27 - Filmmaker of the Week: Emily Kincaid

01:03:42 - Closing

Alyssia Rivera is back for her 8th episode. She and Jim talk a little beer league softball, that time Jim kissed a girl with dip in her mouth, Pluckers and drinking spit. Yes. It's random.

The festival makes a rare early acceptance of the movie 50 Summers.

Jim and Jessica have seen Dumbo and The Highwaymen.

We are introduced to the Director of Operations for the Austin Revolution Film Festival, Emily Joseph.

Jim's 3rd Rail is all about what you do and DON'T do if you're a film festival runner and you play your own film at the festival.

Check out more Jon English music here.

Submit to the Austin Revolution Film Festival here. 

Jim's Movie List:

1. On The Basis of Sex
2. Us
3. The Highwaymen
4. Apollo 11
5. Happy Death Day to You
6. Dumbo
7. Captain Marvel

Lucky number 7!

Jessica and I have seen Us! AND...we dug the heck out of it. Somehow we end up Battlestar Galactica, Black Sails, Ken Burns Baseball, my hatred of Jimmy Fallon and the time I (kind of) went Tonya Harding on someone.

We're joined by Stephanie Tobey, producer of the smash hit Abducted in Plain Sight.

Chip Hale, the director of the Reel East Texas Film Festival talks about his great festival and James talks about another 'festival', the Cannes Short Film Corner.

As promised, the Key and Peele sketch.
White Zombies

Thank you Jon English for the tunes! Listen to him here.