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The death of popcorn?

30. August 2008

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You go to the cinema. That horrible smell lingers throughout. You crunch some under your feet. It’s everywhere; it’s a mess. It’s worse than confetti for clearing up. That awful stuff we’re told we have to love at the movies – popcorn. I know it sounds like a very poor script and it certainly can’t [...]

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Save The Cat by Blake Snyder

19. August 2008

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5 stars***** There’s a substantial difference between wanting to write a superior screenplay that you would like to write and a killer screenplay that you want to win the academy award. If you follow Blake Snyder’s rules you’ll be on target for your academy award rather than the screenplay you really sought to write. Blake [...]

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Writing Screenplay Dialogue – How to Guide

15. August 2008

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The screenplay dialogue that characters say to each other is the one most vital element of a screenplay that often lacks a feeling of ‘real speaking’. We’ve all seen a scene in a movie and we’ve asked – ‘did a screenplay writer truly write those words for real?’ New screenplay writers often make simple errors [...]

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88 Minutes (2008)

13. August 2008

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4 stars**** Everyone else and I really mean everyone else, has absolutely panned this movie, but I’m going against the majority: I enjoyed it. It wasn’t Shakespeare, but then I didn’t anticipate it might be. Sure the plot was stretching the imagination and most of the cast (except the lead, Al Pacino) appeared to be [...]

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Olympics Beijing 2008

8. August 2008

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Opening ceremony – outstanding! How many times did you say ‘wow!’? Firstly, apologies guys, this one beats all previous openings. How will the Brits beat that in 2012? What would you have produced with the sort of financial plan used in that wonderful opening ceremony? The budget just for the fireworks alone would be sufficient [...]

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