(Yeah, okay: eight days since my last post is more than a few days – more than several days – more, even, thana week. Sorry.) It’s been so long since we’ve rolled into 2010 I won’t bore you with -0 This is my blog – and in the world of the blind, the one-eyed man [...]
Okay this isn’t post-dated. I’ve got fifteen minutes spare. How quickly can I cut and paste and make sense? How about ten best film endings? (Fedora-tip: Infinite Monkeys by way of The Incomparable.) I’ve been a fan of Dylan Horrocks since Hicksville (a phase of forcing myself to try some homegrown comics fare). He’s got [...]
Mr Hilton at The Editing Room has just put up an abridged script for Watchmen. And this excerpt is for the benefit of The Goddess who wondered what the heck the story was with Bubastis the wondercat: MATTHEW GOODE Would you like me to explain why as I stroke my tigercatrabbit? PATRICK WILSON Er, actually, [...]
A bit of a backlog of a collection, attributions for which I can’t remember, sorry – though a pretty good bet would be the sidebar, but. Billy Mernit makes a good case for bad screenwriting. There are such things as happy endings for screenwriters in Hollywood – just ask Robert Mark Kamen. Salman Rushdie writes [...]
Oh alright. Despite whatever I said before, I’m in a… high state of anticipation. Lynden Barber‘s whip ’round of reviews, along with the L.A. Times‘ Patrick Goldstein‘s post, have lowered expectations somewhat. Roger Ebert has given it four stars and a review that saw past the “cerulean genitalia” and picked up on a whole lot [...]
Decades’ of comic-reading made me pick up 500 Essential Graphic Novels the other day. Two hundred, I thought to myself, I bet I’ve read two hundred easy. I barely managed ninety*. And that was by including characters I knew I’d read but couldn’t exactly recall if I’d read the title listed in the book. I [...]
And what have I got to say for my reading and viewing for 2008? 147 books, comics and scripts were picked up and read, all bar 19 right through, with the most memorable being: Pamela Douglas‘ Writing the TV Drama Series, Mark Haddon‘s A Spot of Bother and Ruth L Ozeki‘s My Year of Meat; [...]
I’ve done my shopping. I can do whatever I like now. Danny Stack has ten essential ingredients to becoming a professional screenwriter (the first step? read.) John August has some solid advice on what to do with your ill-gotten gains hard-earned ch-ching: money 101 for screenwriters. Lynden Barber has a posted an excellent article on [...]
Last week, The Goddess and I had lunch with Sean Molloy and Helen Rickerby. It was a great get-together: even though I’d met Sean only one time earlier, the atmosphere was very congenial. A fellow screenwriter and Guild board member, the conviviality was due largely to his being a fellow blogger and Guild forum loiterer. [...]
Six years I’ve waded faithfully – or is it blindly? – through The Shield‘s rising turpitude, its serpentine storylining brushing unseen against my immersed body, the show’s writing satisfying the need to resolve each ep’s crime-of-the-week while each season’s caper escapade escalating crisis builds towards a season ending that’s as welcome – and inevitable – [...]
