Category: Site Stuff

WAMG Podcast Announcement/Contest!

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Hello movie geeks! For those of you who don’t know who I am, my name is Tim Buel and I just started writing here at WAMG a few weeks ago. Prior to writing here, I ran a little film blog called Fliktalk.com. In addition to being the editor in chief of the site, I also hosted the podcast. We closed our doors this past September due to scheduling conflicts and loss of some team members, but the passion was still alive in me to bring a fun, informative and entertaining podcast to my fellow film geeks. Enter WAMG. I was hired by Scott as a news writer, which has been awesome, but I recently offered to take the reigns and helm the site’s podcast.

So where are we now? I have been in pre-production on the show this passed week or so and have come up with some pretty fun ideas. I will be joined by Scott and Kirk as your regular hosts and we will be chatting about a variety of topics, many of which, we hope you will contribute to! We will also be joined by various guests from other film sites, and of course some celebrity guests from both behind and in front of the camera! You can also expect some awesome contests which will test your creativity as a film geek, and your overall film knowledge and opinion!

Speaking of contests, that leads my to my next bit. We are very excited about this new show and we want you, as the audience and our fellow geeks, to have some participation in its birth. So here’s our offer: Help us name the show! We want something snappy, sexy and of course, related to our common love of all things cinema. If you have an idea for the name of the show, send an email to wamgpodcast@gmail.com with “Show Title” in the subject line. What’s in it for you? If your show name is selected, you will receive a box of of swag. This includes DVDs, shirts and other movie related paraphernalia. Sound cool or what? So get on it!

Submissions for the contest will end on Monday December 7th at 11:59pm PST so you have a whole week to get some awesome names to us. The first ever show will be live on ustream.tv (where you can participate in the chat room and listen live) starting   Wednesday December 9th at 6:30pm PST/9:30pm EST. If the dates change, we will inform you!

We look forward to reading your submissions and bringing you a film podcast that you won’t soon forget!

SEE YOU GUYS SOON!

~Tim

www.twitter.com/timbuel

Welcome to WeAreMovieGeeks.com V 3.0

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We have had our old layout for quite some time and I thought it was time for a change. Along with the new style layout we have also implemented some brand new features for all of you guys to enjoy. Here is a short list of them:

New Comments System:

We have installed a new comment system through Intense Debate that will allow you to receive emails when someone replies to your comment, plus you can register/use your other Intense Debate login to comment on our site as well. We want to get our community of readers more involved and this is our first step to reaching this goal.

Feedback button on side:

You will see there is a new feedback button on the side that scrolls with the site, the purpose of this is to allow suggestions, report errors, bugs or anything else you need help with . You post something there and we will get back to ASAP with a resolution. Need to find the name of a movie? Submit it there with all the details you can think of.

New Columns:

We are going to launch a new set of columns to help provide you with even more movie info from around the web, such as a Best of the Week column that highlights a bunch of stuff we find from around the web, movie related and sometimes not. We are also launching a DVD Column that will come out every tuesday to show you exactly what you need to be seeing/buying/avoiding.

Twitter Sidebar:

You can see our latest tweet from the sidebar now, so you will always know whats going on with the @moviegeeks twitter account.

Overall Thoughts on Reviews:

Sometimes we write really long reviews, which unless you have some time on your hands can take a while to read, but lets say you are in a hurry and need to know what we thought overall. Well at the bottom of each review we will have a little section that is highlighted in black which will give you the overall thoughts plus our rating.

We have also added a link that will take you to a page with just the name of the movie, and our overall thoughts to make seeing which ones we liked and didnt like that much easier.

And, we are back… no thanks to Servage Hosting.

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Well sorry for the delay but we unexpectadly went down on Wednesday because apparently we got more than 500,000 hits in one day. Even though we have a massive amount of transfer that we hadnt used they(Servage, our OLD hosting company) still decided to suspend the database that runs WeAreMovieGeeks.com. After 2 days of work and debating back and forth with them we are now back up and running. Things might be a little quirky for the next couple of days but rest assured we will be back to normal by monday.

Also if you are considering starting a site, movie blog, or anything similar to that please choose someone other than Servage because..they suck and they kept everyone from getting their WAMG fill for the last 2 days. Word of advice, skip them at all costs boys and girls.

Welcome to West Memphis 3 Week

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You know the feeling you got when you first watched ‘The Green Mile’, realizing that John Coffey really hadn’t committed the violent crimes he was imprisoned and eventually executed for? Imagine for a second of the very real existence that the above three men have to go through everyday of their lives. Waking up each day confined to a cell knowing that as it stands right now you will never get out of prison, and for one of them execution is one denied appeal away.

Since June 3rd 1993 all three of them have been locked up for a vicious crime they did not commit. Some of you may be familiar with them and if you aren’t it is my hope that during the next week on our site we can familiarize yourself with the case, the huge community of people that are reaching out to make a difference and what you can do to help as well.

When they were arrested they were 18, 16, and 17 (in order of the photo above), Jason and Jesse (Middle and far right) were each given life sentences and Damien (pictured far left) was given a death sentence. All of these guys were handed these sentences with no more evidence than a coerced confession from Jesse (who was tried separately), and essentially being looked down upon for being “different”. By “different,” I mean wearing black clothing and listening to heavy metal music. That is enough to get you convicted of murder in West Memphis.

There have been 2 documentaries (‘Paradise Lost’ 1 & 2), and one very notable book written about the subject (The Devils Knot). From this countless celebrities have given their time, and services to the cause. Here are just a few:

Henry Rollins, Winona Ryder, Jack Black, Trey Parker, Eddie Vedder, Robert Smith, Natalie Maines, Michale Graves and a huge list of other famous supporters

The sad thing is that although everyone is reaching out for support these gentlemen are still locked up today, 16 years later. Some of you that are familiar with the book and documentaries may have heard about my Mom (Victoria Hutcheson) and brother (Aaron Hutcheson) who both played a part in the saga of the WM3.

This week, in an effort to raise awareness, we are going to have all of our columns be something related to the WM3. We will also have write-up’s from a few celebrity supporters and some of my close friends.

For more information on the West Memphis Three please visit http://wm3.org, which is run by the amazing Kathy Bakken, Grove Pashley, Burk Sauls, and Lisa Fancher.

New Teaser for ‘White Tiger: The Story of Rick and Roddy’

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If you dont know already I, your faithful head geek around here, am in the process of making a movie. Its called ‘White Tiger: The Story of Rick and Roddy’, and we just released our first teaser for the film. Here is a brief synopsis:

Rick and Roddy were the top male strippers of the early 90’s but since then have fallen off of their pedestal. Today, 19 years later, they’re coming back for one last big show. Determined to re-claim their fame but putting aside their differences, the twin brother stripper duo are back, except, this time they’re not as fit as they once were…

So of course we are going to blast you with updates now that stuff is finally being released after 26 years of development. Check out the teaser below and give us some feedback! Also, none of this would be possible without AJ Meadows who is a very talented young film maker, check out his other stuff here.



Behind the Face of WeAreMovieGeeks.com

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We haven’t brought you much information in the form of our behind the scene’s stuff, but if you have been at a festival you probably snagged a postcard of ours with the above give on it! Well who is that girl you ask? That is the face of WeAreMovieGeeks.com the stunning Samantha Lowrey! I figured we would give a little profile on the site since everyone takes the postcards mostly because she is on it.

We picked up Samantha about a year ago and I have used her photos in almost all of our advertising, she is even our photo for the iTunes podcast page. Everyone asks who she is and now you don’t have to wonder anymore.

You can check her out on myspace or model mayhem and if you go there make sure you add her as a friend. We will hopefully be doing a shoot with her again very soon so we will have some new photos for everyone to feast on!

Oh and we couldn’t have gotten such great photos if it weren’t for Charles Barnes the greatest photographer EVER! If you need a photographer for anything definitely hit this guy up, he WILL NOT let you down.

WAMG First Annual Oscar Party, You are invited!

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This is the party event thus far in 2009 and you are all invited. We are going to be recording our reaction to the winners, live twittering the event and more. Here are the details:

Where: Tin Can Tavern 1909 Locust St, St Louis, MO‎
When: Sunday February 22nd at 6pm
Cost: Free

We are going to do an Oscar pool, $5 buy in and you pick the winners. The most correct answers wins the pot! There will be food, drinks, giveaways and everything else. You might even make it onto our Video Podcast, so you could end up as an Internet celebrity by the end of the night. Not to mention Ram Man, Movie Guru, Myself and the rest of the Movie Geeks will all be there so you cant ask for anything more than that!

Everyone is invited so tell all of your friends about this this (this part is NOT OPTIONAL).

We Are Movie Geeks turns 1!

Well, Today and Yesterday are officially the 1 year anniversary to WeAreMovieGeeks.com and my how things have changed.

I registered the domain on December 17th 2007 and put up the first official movie related post on December 18th 2007. The story was about ‘Walk Hard’, and wondering if it might be the best Judd Apatow movie ever. Well we obviously know that didn’t happen! Travis came on board quickly there after and made his first post about ‘Hellboy 2’ which you can see here.

Since then we have grown the site as much as we could handle and now have a guy in LA, 2 guys in NY, and 6 editors in St Louis. That’s pretty impressive if you ask me, but this is only the tip of the iceberg. I am in the process of bringing on a team of developers to keep making the site better. We have some great things on the horizon and we hope that you all continue to come here, tell your friends and help us grow even more. I wouldn’t have been able to do this without our awesome team of editors, and some of the most faithful readers on the planet!

Thanks everyone, and here is to 10 more years! By then you might just have a digital version of me reading you movie news every time it comes across the wire..who knows!