Movie Reviews · 1 min
Beasts of the Southern Wild Mercifully Short Review by Jonathan Empson Six-year-old Hushpuppy lives in cheerful squalor in a close-knit, alcohol- and seafood-fuelled community called the…
Best of the Web · 2 min
Story & Structure :: 25 Rules for Writing and Telling Stories :: How To Write A Genius Script :: First Ten Pages: Horror :: The 'Lubitsch'…
Logline It! · 4 min
Writing loglines is an essential skill for screenwriters, from early development through to the pitch. In this section, every week our panel reviews a few loglines…
Story & Structure · 1 min
Writer/director Josh Radnor is most recognisable as Ted Moseby in How I Met Your Mother) but he's more than a pretty face, as he proves with…
Uncategorized · 9 min
The other night I spent 90 minutes with a genetically blessed group of gyrating, pelvic thrusting, butt-flashing, well-oiled young men. It wasn’t a drunken hen’s something…
Best of the Web · 1 min
Story & Structure :: When we go to the Movies we want to be Moved (Emotionally) :: Action is more than just Gunfights and Car Chases…
Logline It! · 4 min
Writing loglines is an essential skill for screenwriters, from early development through to the pitch. In this section, every week our panel reviews a few loglines…
Story & Structure · 1 min
Writer/director Brian Klugman and Bradley Cooper discuss their new film The Words, the process of weaving together three distinct stories in a single organic narrative, and…
Uncategorized · 6 min
Not too long ago, television seemed like a less-than-desirable alternative to films. If you couldn't find any good movies in theaters, you'd resort to flipping through…
Best of the Web · 1 min
Story & Structure :: Your Hero’s Development :: Cause and Effect Storytelling Script Perfection :: Using Big Words in Your Script, Scene Headings :: Children of…
Stuff · 4 min
It was very quiet after the lights came up. I heard an adjective spoken as I left the theatre, “perfect”. Moonrise Kingdom was written by Roman…
Logline It! · 4 min
Writing loglines is an essential skill for screenwriters, from early development through to the pitch. In this section, every week our panel reviews a few loglines…
Video · 1 min
First-time scriptwriter Zoe Kazan sits down with co-directors Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton (Little Miss Sunshine) and actor Paul Dano to discuss the inception of indie…
Story & Structure · 6 min
In my last essay I explained how Australian feature stories lack universality. Today I will focus on the one sub-category where I see this lack at…
Best of the Web · 2 min
Story & Structure :: Without a successful movie under your belt, DON'T attempt to write multi-protag. :: Why write a movie? :: Dispatch from The Quest: Ben Odgren…
