I always like a movie that starts out quick, and Trance certainly does that.
I’d sell my grandmother for a long shot.
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.
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.”
Understanding Screenwriting #95: The Avengers, Think Like a Man, Desperate Housewives, & More
Swoosh! Bang! Crash! Pow! Smush! Whump!
Understanding Screenwriting #94: American Reunion, Mirror, Mirror, Damsels in Distress, & More
There is understandably a slightly more rueful tone to this entry in the series, which is also true about high school reunions.
Understanding Screenwriting #93: The Deep Blue Sea, A Separation, Pauline Kael, & More
Terence, meet Terence.
Michel Hazanavicius is attempting to make a silent film that will play to a talkies audience, not just silent film history buffs.
The idea of a film about an unwed mother first came to Preston Sturges in 1937.
Understanding Screenwriting #89: Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol, The Descendants, My Week with Marilyn, & More
If we had been more emotionally involved with Hunt in this film, we might have found it more moving.
Understanding Screenwriting #88: Young Adult, A Dangerous Method, The Palm Beach Story, & More
Hollywood studio development executives always insist that characters have to be “likable” and usually ask for a scene early in the script that shows it.