Barry Bowe's Blog, page 47

Lights, Camera, Action

My Student Film – Part 3 You work in 4-man teams with three other students – they help you & you help them – camera, sound, & lighting – we each do a few 2-minute films during the year – practicing as we learn.   LIGHTS – today they often use Klieg lights to flood […]

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Man of Many Hats

My Student Film Part 2 As a student at film school – you go to class all day – five days a week – for a year – then use every spare moment to create your film – you’re not only the director – you’re the executive producer, producer, screenwriter, story-boarder, casting director, director of […]

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Strike a Nerve

My Student Film Part 1 For any film to resonate with its audience – it must strike a nerve and set a tone that elicits emotional responses – now, my student film can only be ten minutes long – no time to fuck around – so what’s it going to be about? I got it […]

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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is a brilliant rewriting of history by Quentin Tarantino. IMDB describes Once Upon a Time in Hollywood like so: “A faded television actor and his stunt double strive to achieve fame and success in the final years of Hollywood’s Golden Age in 1969 Los Angeles.” I never wanted to […]

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Hot Summer Nights

Hot Summer Nights is an awful movie – see it for yourself if you don’t believe me. Here’s how IMDB describes the movie. “In the summer of 1991, a sheltered teenage boy comes of age during a wild summer he spends on Cape Cod getting rich from selling pot to gangsters, falling in love for […]

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Cleopatra Murdered

Cleoptra Murdered available at Amazon, Kindle, and most book sellers. Cleopatra Murdered Episode 1 in the Lew Kaminski crime series.

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Fools Rush In

Fools Rush In – Salma Hayek outstanding – Matthew Perry once again a hack. I musta seen 1997’s Fools Rush In 40 or 50 times. Here’s the plot: “After a one night stand with Matthew Perry (Alex), Salma Hayek (Isabel) realizes she’s pregnant – (btw that would never happen in real life.) Huge cultural differences […]

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The Founder

The Founder is an intriguing story of Ray Kroc’s ambition, persistence, and ruthlessness. I turned on The Founder (2016) just to kill some time – but wound up watching end to end. IMDB describes it like so: “The story of Ray Kroc, a salesman who turned two brothers’ innovative fast food eatery, McDonald’s, into the […]

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Joseph Wambaugh Sells Out

Joseph Wambaugh sells out in pursuit of Echoes in the Darkness. I used Joseph Wambaugh as a role-model when getting started as a crime writer. I read 1979’s The Onion Field and 1984’s The Glitter Dome – both best-sellers. Joseph Wambaugh spent 14 years as an LAPD patrolman and detective sergeant in the Homicide Division. […]

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Best Seller

Best Seller is about a hitman and a cop who join forces to fight evil. Best Seller pops up on Amazon Prime tonight – 1987 movie starring James Woods and Brian Dennehy. I like them both – yet never saw the movie. The promo says: “A widowed Joseph Wambaugh-type cop who writes best-selling crime novels […]

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