K PAX (2001 Iain Softley) is a film about a man so badly traumatised that he believes he is an alien who takes the name ‘Prot’ (Kevin...

Film making is so complex and involves so many people that it’s a wonder any good films ever get made. This gives us an idea of why...

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...