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The winning film – Gone Fishing

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

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Winning over 40 international festivals and awards, Chris Jone’s film – Gone Fishing – continues to show newbies how to get film making right, first time. From his website: Gone Fishing is the Academy Award Shortlisted, multi festival winning, short film made by author of the Guerilla Film Makers Handbooks, Chris Jones. The DVD is [...]

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Young Adult (2011 movie)

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

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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 [...]

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Contraband (2012 movie)

Monday, February 27, 2012

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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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Screenwriters advice; write here, write now.

Monday, February 20, 2012

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  You will understand the play on words when you visit Lucy V Hay’s website to learn about screenplay writing. Rather than everyone getting together a long list of articles across many websites, this one stop location brings the newbie all they require. They contain an  extensive collection of screenwriting articles required for new screenplay [...]

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Screenplay Writers WGA rates 2011

Monday, November 7, 2011

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The Writer’s Guild of America (WGA) has updated its writer’s guide rates for the minimum expected for writing work for movies, theatre and television.

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Author’s delight or ID theft predators paradise?

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

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There are two distinct views that arise after looking over a fake name generator website. Either it’s a brilliant idea for fiction authors and screenplay writers or it’s the most excellent piece of software available for people to commit today’s most increasing crime; that of identity theft.

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Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011 movie)

Thursday, September 1, 2011

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More often than not, these blockbuster Hollywood movies leave you disappoiunted and asking what did they spend a couple of hundred million on? With Rise of the Planet of the Apes they get it just right with an audience leaving the theatre pleased with their ninety minute entertainment.

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Bad Teacher (2011 movie)

Saturday, June 25, 2011

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Cameron Diaz strides through the process of trying to act like the world’s worst teacher and resolves to become the best in this ninety minute romp through the life of a lazy, money grabbing educator, in ‘Bad Teacher.’ Her worst habit is saying what she’s thinking; exactly.

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Brits raid town and take away the gold

Monday, February 28, 2011

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The King’s Speech was rewarded as the best movie of the year for 2010 in the Academy’s awards on 27th February, 2011. As well as best film, Colin Firth took best actor, Tom Hooper for best director and best screenplay for the excellent writing from David Seidler.

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Black Swan (2010 movie)

Friday, February 18, 2011

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Natalie Portman leaves you in a trance, her performance is so majestic, outstanding and a worthy winner of the gold statue, due soon. Even if you’re not a fan of ballet, it won’t matter at all as this movie isn’t about ballet, Black Swan is about major character change from white swan to black swan.

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