Movies

Jun 2020 6

Local Movie Makers Making Movies During Coronavirus Lockdown

2020 Articles, Movies, Steven Sanchez

by Steven Sanchez

Film productions are known for its size and scale of people working together. Have you seen the end credits to a film? You just see hundreds and sometimes even thousands of names scroll up the screen, people representing different departments to make one complete project. You got the director, writer(s), producers, make-up department, casting director(s), production designer, cinematographer, composer, visual effects, special effects, and the list goes on.

May 2020 30

Q&A With Local Film Editor/Musician Robert J. Thissen

2020 Articles, Movies, Music, Steven Sanchez, TV

by Steven Sanchez

Filmmaker, editor, musician, producer, these are the many titles that shape Robert J. Thissen’s identity. This Central Valley artist has made a name for himself in Hollywood for his work as a television and associate editor on several TV shows ranging from Hart of Dixie, Life In Pieces, Rizzoli and Isles, and that’s just naming a few. He’s become a go-to from the big studios in Tinseltown, maybe you’ve heard of them, the selection being Warner Bros. Paramount, 20th Century Fox, Universal, Disney, along with others. But now he’s shifting gear and his focus to another craft...music.

Apr 2020 18

Lake Bringing Hollywood to Fresno

2020 Articles, Movies, Rebecca Potts

by Rebecca Potts

Just before Fresno’s shelter-in-place order began, Upsilon V Productions was in the midst of casting their first feature film, Lake. The search was on for the four main roles, and after casting actors for two of them (Spoiler alert: one of them is me!), they were forced to put in-person casting on hold. The current pandemic has thrown a wrench in…basically everything, and with most of the country ordered to stay at home, it’s difficult (See also: impossible) to make a film.

Feb 2020 1

Local Band, The Dying Suns, Shine Bright in the Valley’s Music Scene

2020 Articles, Movies, Steven Sanchez

by Steven Sanchez

If you had a time machine and went back in time, and collected 60/70s rock legends Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, and Queen, then went forward to the 90s and picked up Blind Melon, and finally came back to today to concoct a band with a classic rock sound with some alternative edge to it, the end result would be local band The Dying Suns.

Aug 2019 21

Once In A While By Seth MacFarlane

2019 Articles, Lorie Lewis Ham, Movies

by Lorie Lewis Ham

Multi talented performer Seth MacFarlane released his new album, Once In A While, in April of this year. It was released by Verve and Republic Records. It features the music of great composers such as Irving Berlin, Rodgers and Hart, and Johnny Mercer.

Jun 2019 8

Visalia Shows a Whole Lotta Love For Loni Love

2019 Articles, Arts & Entertainment, Movies, Steven Sanchez, TV

by Steven Sanchez

Loni Love, the multi-talented comedian, actress, author, and co-host of the daytime talk show The Real, brought her comedy to the Visalia Fox Theatre on Saturday, May 18, and the audience showered her with nothing but love throughout the performance.

Jun 2019 1

Hollywood, Be On the Lookout For Valley Actress Alena Gerard

2019 Articles, Movies, Steven Sanchez

by Steven Sanchez

Every year, hopefuls from around the country move to Hollywood to fulfill their dreams of achieving acting stardom. The glitz and glamour of the art form is displayed at award shows, on social media, and in magazines. Some make it and some don’t, but that doesn’t stop people from giving Tinseltown a try.

Apr 2019 3

Young Actor Jovan Armand Strikes Big with Role in Shazam!

2019 Articles, Movies, Steven Sanchez

by Steven Sanchez

Billy Batson is the titular character in the comics and the soon-to-be-released film of the same name, Shazam!. Once he shouts that word, a lightning bolt strikes him thus transforming him into an adult-sized, high-flying, crime fighting superhero.

Jan 2019 12

A Feature in Fresno

2019 Articles, Movies, Rebecca Potts

by Rebecca Potts

Local filming has been consistently growing in the Central Valley for the past decade, and Fresno is no exception. With many independent projects gaining momentum, there is one in particular that stands out – John Neptune and the Sky Palace King, a retro sci-fi filmed in black and white and the story of a young man who must learn to think for himself whilst fighting a war for a leader he believes in, but who soon realizes that there are many shades of gray in what he thought was a black and white universe.

Oct 2018 27

Fresno’s Filmmaking Mad Scientist, Michael S. Rodriguez

2018 Articles, Movies, Steven Sanchez

by Steven Sanchez

In Mary Shelley’s classic horror novel, Frankenstein, somewhere out there in the night of a European village, the mad scientist, Dr. Victor Frankenstein, is hard at work creating a monster in secrecy. As of right now, somewhere out there in Fresno, whether it be day or night, one man is concocting a witch’s brew of story ideas with which to scare mortal moviegoers.