True Film Fan

This podcasts focuses on The Wizard of Odd, American film director Tim Burton, the filmmaker who launched the modern era super hero blockbuster with Batman in 1989, has created such memorable characters as Edward Scissorhands and Jack Skellington in his Halloween/Christmas stop motion animated classic  THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, and brought the Broadway musical SWEENEY TODD to cinematic form....

Cinephile Rob Saucedo is already well known to movie fans in Texas for his 13 year tenure as Manager, booker and creative director at the popular upscale Alamo Drafthouse Theater chain. Now Rob has taken on a new challenge.  When the effects of covid shut down the legendary Ricer Oaks theater, passionate Houston film fans were devastated.  This landmark venue had been playing movies in Houston sin...

     Memorial Day is when we remember and pay tribute to those who have served and sacrificed in the U.S. military in order for us to be free.  In the film world, no  movie does that better than SAVING PRIVATE RYAN .  Director Steven Spielberg has said he made Schindler's List for his m other and SAVING PRIVATE RYAN for his father.  His father Arnold served in India and the Pacific in World War II...

             On May 15th, 1961 the cameras rolled for the first time on one of the greatest              achievements in movie hitosry, the epic LAWRENCE OF ARABIA.  Get the basics              on this landmark film and it's incredible influence on today's filmmakers such as              Steven Spielberg. Listen to the podcast and use the share button to ciculate it              among your fellow...

Warner Brothers has announced a new Lord of the Rings movie will be made called "The Hunt for Gollum."  You'll never guess who directs it. It's a few years away, but the irony is, a bunch of fans already did this years ago.  Huh?  Listen to the podcast for all the details from your host John Wesley Downey as well as a glimpse into the EXCITING future of the  True Film Fan FULL LENGTH episodes comi...

  John Wesley Downey updates True Film Fans on this past weekend's    box office results, which include a movie from 1999 (!), the Star Wars    prequel the Phantom Meance due to the May Fourth Be with You weekend.    Ryan Gosling is # 1 but did the movie cost too much?      We'll salute to a fan favorite  Bernard Hilll RIP who played iconic roles in     Lord of the Rings (Theoden) and Titanic  (Th...