Since Hoover ran the Bureau for fifty years, there is a lot that is left out, enough to make another film.
The broth is only lukewarm.
Understanding Screenwriting #85: A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, The Women on the 6th Floor, The Sturges Project, & More
As longtime readers of this column know, I love shaggy dog stories.
And you thought baseball was a slo-o-o-ow game.
Tone, nuance, restraint.
Contagion is the (cough, cough) feel-bad movie (cough, cough) of the fall.
My wife and I have been huge fans of the Canadian Cirque du Soleil since it first played in Los Angeles at an Arts Festival in 1986.
Are water buffalos this year’s Ishtar?
By now you have probably read the backstory of the film.
Understanding Screenwriting #78: Friends with Benefits, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, & More
Haven’t we recently seen this? Take one. No, actually we haven’t.
Let’s go back to the first film for a minute.
Understanding Screenwriting #76: The Tree of Life, Bridesmaids, Too Big to Fail, & More
Robert Benton’s graceful and poetic final scene in Places in the Heart does what I think Malick is after even better.
Understanding Screenwriting #75: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Midnight in Paris, & More
Johnny Depp is an ungrateful miscreant.
Understanding Screenwriting #74: The Princess of Montpensier, Source Code, Meek’s Cutoff, & More
What, you forgot there was a French story in Intolerance?
A shaggy dog story. Really. Really?
Understanding Screenwriting #72: Of Gods and Men, Rango, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, & More
Religion is a very difficult subject to make a film about.
It sounds like something Robert Riskin might have whipped up for Frank Capra.
Understanding Screenwriting #70: The Illusionist, No Strings Attached, From Prada to Nada, & More
If you followed some of the Links of the Day about The Illusionist, you may be familiar with the controversy over it.
Understanding Screenwriting #69: Barney’s Version, The Dilemma, Modern Family, & More
Great actors in great scenes do not necessarily a great movie make.
The writers manage to make the film more compelling as it goes along, always a potential problem in boxing pictures.