
Avatar: The Way of Plot
Avatar: The Way of Water is obviously a visual feast. Hats off to all those amazing film makers involved. The plot of Avatar: The Way of...

I feel the need ...
We should object to the ‘America – fuck yeah!’ jingoism, but a lot of us don’t. We should be nauseated by the best of the best of the...


How to get your screenplay to go places
I included the following in a recent script report. I think it's a good way to look at screenwriting and screenplays generally: as...

Apple’s Megadeal for Brad Pitt
In a potentially game-changing deal that could impact how streamers and theatrical distributors coexist, Apple has closed a pact to...


12 Powerful Principles of Story Structure
I am republishing this article by renowned screenwriting teacher Michael Hague, who taught me when I started screenwriting, because I...
Spread The Word (But Don’t)
I have been approached multiple times by people who have written film screenplays or VOD/TV screenplays in Microsoft Word or Mac Pages....

CAN YOU REACH?
I watched the first six episodes of the new Amazon Prime streamer REACHER (Amazon Studios, Blackjack Films Inc., Paramount Television,...

DESPITE THE FALLING SNOW
I was hired to cover this screenplay in 2016. My script report is below. The score I gave the screenplay tallies quite well with the...

Words are a screenwriter's last resort
ARCTIC (2018 - Dir: Joe Penna) illustrates the obvious: that when it comes to screenplays, the less said the better. There is almost no...
Moviedome UK
I want to shout out Moviedome UK - a recent free-to-view discovery for me on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxHMlGkKCTcUUTH4...