Increasingly, I come across screenwriters who treat the acts in their screenplay as separate things. Some screenwriters even feel that...

The process of adapting a book to the screen is something I enjoy doing. It’s a unique screenwriting skill – quite unlike writing a...

In 1958, Natalie Wood passed Frank Sinatra’s table at Romanoff’s in Beverly Hills when he made a loud, crude comment aimed at her....

When Liam Neeson stepped into the role of Oskar Schindler in Steven Spielberg’s "Schindler's List" (1993), few could predict the...

Should you wish to read the screenplay of this year's Academy Award, or Oscar, for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay, ANORA, you...

I am quoting this excellent text about screenplay structure because, although it's a bit technical and involves words that are hard to...

I started watching episode 1 of REACHER season 3 yesterday because I watched season 1 and quite liked it. In that, I thought the...

David Lynch, who has died aged 78, was the most original film-maker to emerge in postwar America, as well as the greatest cinematic...

I watched this film again recently to see if it was as good as its reputation and my memory of it suggest. While there is a lot to admire...

10 years ago I was hired by a film finance company to cover THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY. The screenplay was packaged and, I think, in...