Every part of a story contains the DNA of the whole. An example of this can be found in two John Travolta dance sequences: one
The protagonist of Summer of Long Knives doesn’t have a historical counterpart. He’s a product of imagination inspired by three different detectives from film and television. The
Yesterday, I talked about the importance of ernest goofiness in the great bad movie. Today, I read the introduction to Greg Sestero’s inside account of
Over on Facebook, someone responded to my posts about Birdemic: Shock and Terror, with a request for my top ten bad movies of all time. For
My interest in probing the history of the Third Reich predates the writing of Summer of Long Knives by about thirteen years. The war years never
Exercise: take the building blocks of a movie you dislike. How d’you rearrange them into what you DO like? Part two of our little parlor
Of Pixar’s 22 rules of storytelling–which might better be understood as “22 questions and exercises that improve your storytelling odds” I get the biggest kick
The AVClub got me started on this. What film have I loved the longest? Hmm, let me see… I turned six years old in October
About ten days ago, Amanda Knox released her book on her wrongful conviction in Italy and its aftermath. Reaction to it has centered to an
When I read this article about Worldwide Motion Picture Group–an outfit that runs screenplays through statistical analysis in hopes of figuring out what’ll make them