Story is everything
You will have been to a movie and wondered what it was all about. Why didn’t the director/actor/screenplay explain it all to you? Alternately, you have been to a movie where you wondered why they left the story out. We all love story telling – you learnt it from the age of about two. It [...]
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Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Rihanna continues to prove herself as an excellent all-round entertainer. Recently she guested on the Jonathon Ross show in the UK. He is renowned for being the star of his show, but she stole that mantle from him. Here’s where you can watch the young lady give more than she receives. An excellent interview and [...]
Continue reading...Young Adult (2011 movie)
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
4 stars**** This movie has a great logline: Everyone gets old. Not everyone grows up. It completely describes this movie – Young Adult. So what’s it all about? Soon after her divorce, a fiction writer returns to her home in small-town Minnesota, looking to rekindle a romance with her ex-boyfriend, who is now happily married [...]
Continue reading...The Adventures of Tintin(2011 movie)
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
4 stars**** Sometimes you don’t want the past reinvented because it doesn’t do justice to your mind’s history. This is one of those occasions where the filmmakers dramatically improved, although changed forever, the life of Tintin and his dog. The animated figures move like people – but even more so. So what’s it all about? [...]
Continue reading...Why complain about a movie?
Monday, March 5, 2012
There is a world of difference between complaining about how the casting was wrong or the screenwriter didn’t write well enough, but to actually formally complain about a movie is perhaps, taking matters too far – but people do. During the past ten years, hundreds of people have made official complaints in the UK to [...]
Continue reading...Misleading movie trailers
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Movie trailers are supposed to entice you to want to go watch and experience the movie or download legally when it’s available. The problem arises when trailers either show you too much giving the game away or simply being so irrelevant that the movie you finally see wasn’t the movie you expected. Trailers run from [...]
Continue reading...Who wants a Razzie?
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
The Razzies® have been awarded to the worst movies, actors and actresses for 32 years. On Oscar™ awards night 2012, the Razzies listed their nominations for this year’s awards ceremony, to be held on – with no surprise – April 1st. Some previous winners have turned up to collect their awards. Halle Berry was perhaps [...]
Continue reading...Safehouse (2012 movie)
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
4 stars**** David Guggenheim has penned an excellent screenplay in safe house. The manner in which he keeps the audience thinking about which members of the CIA are working against their colleagues maintains the level of intrigue to the final scene. Unfortunately, the safe house is the least safe house in the whole of South [...]
Continue reading...Enjoying the screenwriter’s life
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
This screenwriter’s tool is available free for all to us as they will. Written by screenwriter Tim Clague Click on it to bring it up full size in your browser. This can provide screenwriters with a guide to your work, not just the writing part, but the whole working process. Over 5,000 have already chosen [...]
Continue reading...Contraband (2012 movie)
Monday, February 27, 2012
3 stars*** Seeing the logo from Working Title films, you know instantly that you’re about to see a quality movie, so why is this the first Working Title film to be simply satisfactory with no great power? So what’s it all about? To protect his brother-in-law from a drug lord, a former smuggler heads to [...]
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