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 20 Love1 2 Days in the Valley: Screenwriting that Imitates but Ultimately Succeeds By Matthew Pizana Classic Reviews Sometimes funny and often sadistic, 2 Days in the Valley is a film that rode in on the wave of…Read More
Dec 16 Love1 Charley Varrick: A Screenplay that Still Reverberates in Modern Cinema By Matthew Pizana Classic Reviews After the success of Dirty Harry, director Don Siegel moved to the other side of the law for his next…Read More
Dec 14 Love1 Something Wild: A Script with Multiple Genres By Matthew Pizana Classic Reviews Love sometimes is only good when it comes in the form of a chance encounter that turns the universe inside…Read More
Dec 11 Love1 Mission Impossible: Acute Action Filmmaking By Matthew Pizana Classic Reviews Based on a hit television series from the 1960’s, Mission Impossible was revived for the big screen in the summer…Read More
Dec 06 Love1 Rope: Hitchcock, Murder and a Screenplay with Hurdles By Matthew Pizana Classic Reviews Murder is often the theme that many of Alfred Hitchcock’s greatest films revolve around. He loved to play with the…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 25 Love1 Ace in the Hole: Ambition for Yellow Journalism By Matthew Pizana Classic Reviews In the news business, money is made not from heartwarming tales of love and positivity but rather on stories that…Read More
Nov 22 Love1 A Face in the Crowd: Worthiness vs. Emptiness By Matthew Pizana Classic Reviews The history of musical talent that relied more on pomp and circumstance than actual music ability goes back for as…Read More
Nov 18 Love1 King of New York: Abel Ferrara Brings a City to Life By Matthew Pizana Classic Reviews New York in the 90’s was a far cry from what a visitor might see today. Instead of family fun…Read More