Archive | May, 2008
Film reviews
I’ve been asked why there have been so many film and movie reviews on this blog recently when so many readers have been expecting updates on the progress of the short film. They want to know if the screenplay is ready yet and is pre-production complete? Well, no. The experts say you should study films [...]
Continue reading...Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
29. May 2008
4 stars**** It’s not very often that a comedy film actually has you laughing, laughing consistently throughout the film and has you laughing out loud. This was does. This Universal Pictures comedy film directed by Nicholas Stoller was written expertly by Jason Segel. The film stars Segel, Kristen Bell, Russell Brand and Mila Kunis. Yes, [...]
Continue reading...You Kill Me (2007)
20. May 2008
4 stars**** I missed this at the cinema, but I wish I hadn’t. It was on my long list to see, but time beat me so it was handy winning this DVD in a movie competition.This is a brilliant mix of assassin and comedy; a blend not usually brought together so effectively.Ben Kingsley stars as [...]
Continue reading...Ironman (2008)
19. May 2008
3 stars*** Been to the drive in. Watched it. Entertained reasonably. I wasn’t bored, but I wasn’t absorbed. Well acted. Well filmed and edited. It was satisfactory. I wouldn’t rush to see it again, on television or on DVD. I can’t see why it scores so highly elsewhere. It must be my personal opinion, then. [...]
Continue reading...The Bank Job (2008)
8. May 2008
4 stars**** Jason Statham emerges in a role that appears written for him. It almost certainly wasn’t, but if you want a bank robber and/or small time criminal in London circa any year from 1965, then Jason is your man. Yet again, another Brit movie that hits all the high notes; the Brits are certainly [...]
Continue reading...Treatment writing
3. May 2008
This is how I start my treatment thinking. I need to answer these first six questions first. 1. Who 2. What 3. Where 4. When 5. Why 6. How Then I need a rough plan of what happens in the story. Start The middle The ending All stories have a three phase plan if they’re [...]
Continue reading...Logline complete
2. May 2008
Finally, after many hours of turmoil, the logline for the short film is ready. It’s … well of course I can’t say yet, can I? I have to wait until the treatment is ready and the script completed and I’ve registered the copyright before I can release the logline. I can’t risk someone stealing my [...]
Continue reading...Vantage Point (2008)
1. May 2008
4 stars**** I’m very pleased I chose to go and see Vantage Point. It was an outstanding entertaining movie. Essentially we saw the film from various people’s perspective’s in ten minute slots with each one just giving us a little more information over the last. Only when we saw each person’s point of view were [...]
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30. May 2008
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