Jan 09 Love0 GBF: Screenwriting that Needs to Take Itself More Seriously By Carrie Stemke Movie Reviews One of the most admirable and best qualities about movies are the way in which they can be used to…Read More
Jan 04 Love0 Gimme the Loot: Easygoing Screenwriting By Carrie Stemke Movie Reviews SXSW winner Gimme the Loot is a smart, slice-of-life film that follows Sophia (Tashiana Washington) and Malcolm (Ty Hickson), two…Read More
Dec 23 Love1 Pi: Character Driven Screenwriting By Carrie Stemke Classic Reviews Pi is certainly an interesting way to start a career. Darren Aronofsky’s directorial debut focuses on Max Cohen, a numbers…Read More
Dec 07 Love0 Frances Ha: Scripting that Dances and Drifts By Carrie Stemke Movie Reviews Frances Ha is a comedy-drama directed by Noah Baumbach. It tells the story of Frances (Greta Gerwig), a 27-year-old aspiring…Read More
Nov 30 Love1 Adventureland: Good Screenwriting that Shows off Nostalgia By Carrie Stemke Classic Reviews Adventureland is an intelligent, relevant film about a college graduate named James Brennan (Jesse Eisenberg) whose dreams of a post-undergrad…Read More
Nov 24 Love0 Blackfish: Documentary Filmmaking that Resonates By Carrie Stemke Movie Reviews Using a creative, compelling mix of archival footage, interviews, commercials and clips of killer whales in the wild, Blackfish is…Read More
Nov 17 Love0 What’s Eating Gilbert Grape: Raw Realism By Carrie Stemke Classic Reviews What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? is a moving, human film. Director Lasse Hallström weaves a story that captures both the viewer’s attention…Read More
Nov 08 Love0 How John Hughes and Ferris Bueller Taught Us All to Relax By Carrie Stemke Classic Reviews Some movies are great because they represent an ideal world for us: a world in which everybody likes us, where…Read More
Nov 02 Love0 Pulp Fiction: Screenplay Structure that Still Impresses By Carrie Stemke Classic Reviews It’s the film where we all learned what they called a Quarter Pounder with cheese in Paris: Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp…Read More
Oct 25 Love0 Raging Bull: A Stunningly Raw Portrait of the Beast in Man By Carrie Stemke Classic Reviews At the end of Raging Bull, the following quote appears on screen: “So, for the second time, summoned the man…Read More