One year ago today, I posted about RSM Kris Wheeler and me meeting a man who claimed to be “The Real Black Elvis.” in observation of Elvis Week, we think it’s worth revisiting:
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Festing Nash Vegas: Used Film Salesmen
April 21, 2012 
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Day Two of our Nashville Film Festival experience begins with a free bacon buffet in the hotel. Reportedly, there were other breakfast foods present, even on my plate, but I couldn’t get past the words “free bacon.”
Read moreFesting Nash Vegas: Chunky Glasses, Tiny Fedoras and the F-word
April 20, 2012 2 Comments
For the next week RSMs Wayne Franklin and Kris Wheeler will be blogging their experiences as they take their film to the Nashville Film Festival. Mythologist Joseph Campbell, in his seminal work, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, says that the hero of any good story must vanquish forces known as Threshold Guardians who seek […]
Read more Festing Nash Vegas: A Real Southern Men Adventure
April 19, 2012 9 Comments
This week, RSM Kris Wheeler and I are taking our documentary feature film, Duke & The King to the Nashville Film Festival. The film will have its world premiere this Sunday night at 9pm. Seeing that it’s a film by Southern men, about a Southern man and playing in a Southern film festival, it’s only […]
Read more RSM Elvis Week: TMI and The Real Black Elvis
August 26, 2011 2 Comments
Part 5 of a Real Southern Men Adventure:
It’s time to put the wraps on this long, winding adventure through the town immortalized by Johnny Rivers: Memphis, Tennessee.
Read more RSM Elvis Week: Super-Fans, Fried Burgers and More Elvi
August 25, 2011 2 Comments
Part 4 of a Real Southern Men Adventure
Confession: these posts are starting to make me tired. Our weekend in Memphis was exhausting, and reliving them is equally so. Last time, I had just been assaulted with the P-word by a vagrant in TGI Friday’s. Mentally battered, weary, I retreated to my hotel room to fight anew the next day.
Read more RSM Elvis Week: Chicken George and the P-Word
August 24, 2011 6 Comments
Part 3 of a Real Southern Men Adventure
Welcome back to our tale of how RSMs Kris Wheeler and Wayne Franklin took Beale Street by storm as we attended Elvis Week.
Read more Film Review: General Orders No. 9 (updated with trailer)
July 18, 2011 0 Comments
“There are no satisfactory words, no neat genre labels which can be placed upon this film. General Orders No. 9 marks the birth of something wholly new, yet refreshingly familiar, in cinema.”
Wayne Franklin reviews the new film General Orders No. 9 and its haunting exploration of the changing face of the South.
Read more Nine Questions with Filmmaker Robert Persons
July 15, 2011 0 Comments
Wayne Franklin recently had the pleasure of conversing with first-time filmmaker Robert Persons about his wonderfully rich film General Orders No. 9. Appropriately, Wayne asked him nine questions:
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