Feb 15 Love1 Show! Don’t Tell: Visual Storytelling in Black Swan By Patrick Kirkland Script Tips... In Action If there’s one golden rule in this screenwriting business, it’s this: Show. Don’t tell. Most of us try to Sorkin…Read More
Feb 10 Love0 Best Adapted Screenplay: Does 500 Million Friends Guarantee an Oscar? By Jim Rohner Main Directors get all the credit in Hollywood, but every screenwriter knows that no matter the director, they cannot and will…Read More
Feb 10 Love0 Best Original Screenplay: The King’s Speech vs. Inception By Noelle Buffam Main It’s finally Oscar season again, a time when everyone seems to find their purpose in life once more: bloggers have…Read More
Feb 03 Love0 Top 10 British Films of the Last Ten Years By Ally Sinyard Top 10 Lists When I first started researching for this article a few weeks ago, I thought I’d ask my fellow Brits for…Read More
Feb 01 Love2 127 Hours: Cutting the Nerve By Patrick Kirkland Movie Reviews I have been writhing in agony for two days. Stuck, with one single image in my mind, and I have…Read More
Jan 31 Love0 The Rite: And All Things Wrong With It By Jim Rohner Movie Reviews To some degree, all the characters in The Rite are searching for a clear delineation between black and white within…Read More
Jan 16 Love0 The Green Hornet: A January Dump Off With Summer Chops By Jim Rohner Movie Reviews I had the pleasure of interviewing Michel Gondry a couple years ago during a press day for the anthology film,…Read More
Jan 11 Love7 Ten Great Film Exposition Scenes By Michael Schilf Top 10 Lists Exposition is a necessary tool for the screenwriter and often one that is essential to understanding plot, character, setting, and/or…Read More
Dec 27 Love0 True Grit: Coens Defy and Deliver By Jim Rohner Movie Reviews Leave it to Coens to defy your expectations. The guys who brought a gallows police procedural to the friendliest place…Read More
Dec 20 Love0 The Fighter Delivers: T.K.O By Jim Rohner Movie Reviews You've seen The Fighter already, right? There's a scrappy, underdog protagonist hailing from a less than privileged neighborhood trying to…Read More