I wasn’t the only person to see the connection to Porky’s.
The robbers in The Bling Ring aren’t the professionals scripted by John Huston, W.R. Burnett, and Ben Maddow in The Asphalt Jungle
Understanding Screenwriting #112: Before Midnight, Iron Man 3, Stories We Tell, Mad Men, & More
People who saw the film wondered if they met up again. So did the filmmakers.
Many reviews have pointed out that 42 is a very conventional screen biography of Jackie Robinson. It is.
I always like a movie that starts out quick, and Trance certainly does that.
I’d sell my grandmother for a long shot.
The peril of prescription drug use is only one red herring that Scott Z. Burns throws out.
If you’ve followed the Up documentary series, you know that it catches up with a cross-section of Britishers every seven years.
You would think with this title that Kevin Smith is going all political on the tea partiers and the far right in general.
Lotsa stuff, including our ideas of history, blowed up real good.
I have always liked Tony Kushner, and not just the concept of Tony Kushner the public writer.
In comparison with movies like the recent Taken 2, Argo is more about suspense than it is about action.
Can we all stop thinking about L. Ron and Tom Cruise and just watch the damned movie?
Understanding Screenwriting #101: Celeste & Jesse Forever, Raiders of the Lost Ark, & More
Ah, yes, the pop quiz.
Oh, boy, those are danger signs all over place.
Understanding Screenwriting #99: The Bourne Legacy, Farewell, My Queen, Hope Springs, & More
No, Jeremy Renner is not Matt Damon. Get over it.
Understanding Screenwriting #98: To Rome with Love, Beasts of the Southern Wild, The Newsroom, & More
The shaggy-dog element in the fourth story in To Rome with Love is its very casual surrealism.
If you read my “Understanding Screenwriting” column at The House, you may be aware that I generally do not do Top 10 lists.
This is the script Tarsem Singh should have directed.
Understanding Screenwriting #96: Battleship, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Mad Men, & More
Welcome to another episode of “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.”