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Traitor (2008)
3 stars*** Written by Steve Martin (story) and Jeffrey Nachmanoff (screenplay) this slow moving, almost two hour movie, takes us on a ride from a terrorist’s view of making and delivering suicide bombs. With a twist of course and that’s given away by the title. I can’t help but wonder if they’d kept the twist [...]
Continue reading...Screenplays or novel writing?
Friday, October 3, 2008
In a recent article we looked at what the top earning screenplay writers achieve for top script sales, including some which don’t get made into movies. Now we can see whether you’d be better off moving your writing skills in to the world of novels. Forbes magazine has just unveiled its top list of novel [...]
Continue reading...Elegy (2008)
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
4 stars**** It’s a thinker’s film. Screenplay writer Nicholas Meyer has moved the Philip Roth complex novel, The Dying Animal, to a much simpler screen version, while retaining sufficient thought to make this movie compelling, fascinating and a long way from the current Hollywood trend for bang, crash, wallop action movies. Philip Roth is a [...]
Continue reading...Will top actors bring money to your movie?
Friday, July 25, 2008
You’ve no doubt been so concerned with your low budget independent movie and the amount that you’ve allocated for your star roles. Is it enough? Will it bring the people to the cinema? What if I had another ten million for a star name, will that make me more than the extra ten million back [...]
Continue reading...Making Short Films (2008) by Clifford Thurlow
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Our rating 3 stars*** I really wanted to like this book, it gets such enthusiastic reviews from many commentators. However, as hard as I tried, it didn’t really do it for me in the way I expected. I wanted to find out about film and movie making. I felt like I was in a history [...]
Continue reading...Raindance Writer’s Lab Write + Sell The Hot Screenplay
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Our rating 5 stars***** If you only choose one book on being a screenplay writer, then this should be your choice. This is the book that takes you through the various parts of writing your screenplay, how to complete it, who to get it to and lays out all of your business resources exactly where [...]
Continue reading...Screenplay help & tips from www.FILMandMOVIEmaking.com
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Screenplay help & tips from www.FILMandMOVIEmaking.com is all about looking at ways to make a great first impression with your screenplay when your script lands on the desk of the most important person in the world (after your family, your friends and your dog) – the person who will say either yes (recommend), maybe (consider), [...]
Continue reading...Quantum of Solace – Bond 007
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Quantum of Solace – Bond 007 UK release 31st October 2008 US 7th November 2008. The first trailer is now available. Long awaited, the follow up in the latest James Bond series of 22 outstanding movies, Quantum of Solace, arrives at our screens, firstly in the UK late October, followed by Europe and the rest [...]
Continue reading...The Happening (2008)
Monday, June 23, 2008
1 star* The Happening has a very important message, about acting now to save our planet before we destroy it, but it waits until the last few minutes to get this across. Unfortunately, by then we’re so uninterested that we almost think ‘sod the planet, let’s go home.’ If we’d got the message earlier, we [...]
Continue reading...Nims Island (2008)
Monday, June 9, 2008
4 stars**** Jodie Foster just has to be one the best actors currently working. I may have to add the word ‘ever’ to that phrase soon, or perhaps I should already before she’s even reached fifty. She works in an elite group, along with Jack Nicholson and Michael Caine; you know their performance on screen [...]
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008
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