Burble. Screenwriter J D Shapiro apologises for Battlefield Earth. (Fedora-tip: WGGB Blog.) This. Is. SHATNER! (Fedora-tip: Alex Epstein.) Homicide: Life on the Street and The Wire scribe and producer, David Mills died suddenly last week. I didn’t know – I should’ve, really, but I didn’t know – that he was the one who penned the [...]
Hurm. This is spot-on: It seems to be cool at the moment to bag Avatar – something akin to the derision that accompanies Titanic, perhaps? – but I enjoyed it. Not only was I familiar with the original scriptment from way back but it transported me to a different reality for a couple of hours. [...]
Been saving these up, oh yes I have. The last swords-and-sandals epic I saw was Gladiator. Since then, Troy, Alexander, Rome and 300 have come and gone with nary a flicker of interest on my part. But The Incomparable‘s review of Rob Tapert and Sam Raimi‘s Spartacus has sparked a guilty, pulpy, what-the-heck kind of [...]
This issue is small but punchy. James Henry has written a most agreeable post about how “the actual writing thing [is] a bit tedious, but the feeling of having written is a very special and glowy feeling indeed”. Spotted in an Auckland “community entertainment magazine”: WANTED Wanted somebody to go back in time with me. [...]
Greetings earthlings. Phill Barron has an excellent parable about being a writer for hire. (And if you’re reading this in… wherever Mr Barron lives in the UK, he has a car for sale.) Why aren’t there more interviews like this, hm? I just have to share this: (Fedora tip: Jill Golick.) And having shed a [...]
Some rather thin screenwriting-related links this month. Heee. (Fedora-tip: Alex Epstein.) I’m a Joss Whedon fan from his Buffy days (Dollhouse has yet to reach these shores) but this Cracked list of 5 Reasons It Sucks Being a Joss Whedon Fan is both funny and spot on, with my fave being: … There is only [...]
This month, on Point & Click: Local producer Matthew Horrocks has some cogent articles on the state of New Zild film at his Reservoir Films. Go – go read them now. The Incomparable Christopher Rywalt reviews Sex Decoy: Love Stings, a reality show about… about…. I can’t. But here’s an extract: … when a ridiculously [...]
Kinda flat out. PostmodernBarney has an adorable array of uncomfortable plot summaries. There’s an interesting article over the ditch about the journey of multihyphenate Serhat Caradee who, despite having a developed script and a few short films, found he had to shoot ‘pilot scenes’ to attract funding. (Fedora-tip: Lynden Barber.) If, like me, you found [...]
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 [...]
Is it the season or am I just being mean? Screen Junkies has an excellent selection of kids’ letters to Michael Bay, my favourite being: (Fedora-tip: The Big Picture.) Ken Levine has his 2009 Summer Movies preview, with all-time classics like: Ghosts of Girlfriends Past – A new spin on the single most tired premise [...]
