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Top 10 Best Sex Scenes: 90s to Now

  When it comes to sex and cinema, the relationship has not always been a passionate affair. From the early days of Hollywood, where censorship boards were set up to control Read more

Cinema & Spice: Original Yahoo Web Series

It seems that every online website is hopping on the original content bandwagon. With Hulu, AOL and YouTube launching their own shows this past year, Yahoo is the latest to Read more

Violet & Daisy: Director Geoffrey Fletcher

Not only did Geoffrey Fletcher win the first ever “Best Screenplay” Oscar awarded to an African American for Precious, it was also his first feature script. He continued to garner Read more

Top 10 Most Controversial Films

Controversial films. What a lovely first feature for a young reserved British writer to take on. I lapped up the opportunity with gusto, the ideas for the list already forming Read more

Top 10 Best Sex Scenes: 90s to Now Cinema & Spice: Original Yahoo Web Series Violet & Daisy: Director Geoffrey Fletcher Top 10 Most Controversial Films

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All The Way With Alloway

Cinema & Spice: Original Yahoo Web Series

It seems that every online website is hopping on the original content bandwagon. With Hulu, AOL and YouTube launching their own shows this past year,…

Violet & Daisy: Director / Writer Geoffrey Fletcher

Not only did Geoffrey Fletcher win the first ever “Best Screenplay” Oscar awarded to an African American for Precious, it was also his first feature…

Hawke, Delpy & Linklater talk Before Midnight

Hawke, Delpy and Linklater discuss long takes, keeping it real, and their 19-year relationship for Before Midnight

The Before Midnight press day in…

What Maisie Knew: Directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel

Although star names litter this cast, with Julianne Moore playing a rock star mom, Steve Coogan a workaholic dad and Alexander Skarsgard a gentle…

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Top 10 Best Gangster Films

The Lists
I dunno what it is, exactly, about gangster films being so enjoyable… but they are. Maybe they help us release our inner violent demons, maybe it's because we all secretly enjoy seeing two people in nice suits yell…

Top 10 Sequels: Better Than The Originals

The Lists
Remember the scene in "Scream 2", where Randy Meeks (Jamie Kennedy) explains to a class of students the rules of film sequels and what must be done to achieve a perfect sequel? Well, achieving the perfect sequel is no easy…

Top 10 Pixar Films: Pixar Perfect

The Lists
Iremember watching Monsters, Inc. in the cinema when I was eight years old, and it terrified the life out of me. I thought Randal was the scariest monster in the world, and that Bigfoot would eat me. Yet, I had a profound…

Top 10 Period Dramas

The Lists
Occasionally, when I’m not watching my standard blokey films like Fight Club and Inglourious Basterds, I like to swoon my face off to some Jane Austen and a bit of Colin Firth in the lake. I believe it is called…

Screenwriting Features

Top 10 Best Sex Scenes: 90s to Now

When it comes to sex and cinema, the relationship has not always been a passionate affair. From the early days of Hollywood, where censorship boards…

Top 10 'Back To School' Movie Classics

For me, it was not very long ago I was sitting in an exam hall taking my A Levels in a British Secondary School. Just like anyone else, I sat at my…

Top 10 Most Controversial Films

Controversial films. What a lovely first feature for a young reserved British writer to take on. I lapped up the opportunity with gusto, the ideas…

The Writer's Road: Expect the Unexpected

The road is fraught with peril, An Odd-Jobbers life can take unexpected turns. Career altering decisions can be made with a single stroke of a pen,…

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Your Screenplay is Not Your Baby

Screenwriting Script Tips
Never refer to your script as "my baby". If you're guilty of this offense, clearly we know that you're passionate about your story, which is good. But it also makes your ability to be objective with the material suspect. And you must be objective. Subjective emotional attachments can blind you from the truth of script theme, from solving story problems, or from negotiating character differences – all of which are essential to rewriting your screenplay. And if you're serious about being a writer, you better face up to the fact – if you haven't already – that all…

Five Plot Point Breakdowns

The Notebook (2004)

Screenplay Five Plot Point Breakdowns
Screenplay Genre: Drama / Romance Movie Time: 123 minutes 1. INCITING INCIDENT Noah Calhoun (Ryan Gosling) has been pursuing the new girl in town, Aliie (Rachel McAdams). After spending a night together at the movies, they walk the empty streets of the town talking. Noah asks Ally to dance and as they waltz, they fall in love. (00:18:02)

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