“There’s both light and dark…There’s a lot of dark!” Black Mirror
Charlie Brooker & Annabel Jones on screenwriting levers, satire, and why checking your phone is like smoking. Plus great practical advice for writers!
Charlie Brooker & Annabel Jones on screenwriting levers, satire, and why checking your phone is like smoking. Plus great practical advice for writers!
Understanding Screenwriting #149
Tom Stempel on Indignation, Café Society, Florence Foster Jenkins, Complete Unknown, Morgan, Rizzoli & Isles, and BrainDead.
Tom Stempel on Indignation, Café Society, Florence Foster Jenkins, Complete Unknown, Morgan, Rizzoli & Isles, and BrainDead.
“Ever fancied yourself a filmmaker? Guess what? You are!” Kevin Smith
Kevin Smith on Yoga Hosers, Mallrats the Series, and inviting Tarantino to direct The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai.
Kevin Smith on Yoga Hosers, Mallrats the Series, and inviting Tarantino to direct The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai.
Julian Fellowes: Looking Forward to The Gilded Age
Julian Fellowes on his new show The Gilded Age, the truth to rumours of a crossover with Downton, and what he wishes he had done differently.
Julian Fellowes on his new show The Gilded Age, the truth to rumours of a crossover with Downton, and what he wishes he had done differently.
Julian Fellowes: Looking Back on Downton Abbey
Julian Fellowes on multiple narratives, balancing light and shade, and writing period dialogue.
Julian Fellowes on multiple narratives, balancing light and shade, and writing period dialogue.
Burnie Burns: From Red Vs. Blue to Lazer Team
Burnie Burns on the problem with The Empire Strikes Back, keeping a fourteen-year-old show fresh, and his biggest pet peeve in science fiction writing.
Burnie Burns on the problem with The Empire Strikes Back, keeping a fourteen-year-old show fresh, and his biggest pet peeve in science fiction writing.
A Woman’s Voice in the Writers’ Room
Rosanne Welch on writing for female characters, changing the pronoun in a script, and the power of research.
Rosanne Welch on writing for female characters, changing the pronoun in a script, and the power of research.
Understanding Screenwriting #147
Tom Stempel casts his eye over Genius, Finding Dory, Central Intelligence, The Shallows, and Our Kind of Traitor.
So Why Are We Watching This? Genius (2016. Screenplay by John Logan, based on the book Max Perkins: Editor of Genius. 104 minutes.) Within the first week of its American release, this film only had a 45% favorable rating among critics on Rotten Tomatoes (the audiences liked it a little better, with a 58% […]
