

Endgame for cinema (to be avoided)
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/spotlight/martin-scorsese-is-right-about-marvel-films-–-they-are-formulaic-fairground-rides-not-c...
I think therefore I pitch
After requests from screenwriting clients, I've extended my screenwriting services to include writing script pitching documents. I've...
Fade In
Having used Final Draft screenwriting software for years, I just rewrote a film script for a screenwriting client using Fade In...
Film script mentoring
I often get requests from screenwriters early in their career for film script mentoring (aka screenwriting tuition). I've therefore...
Is British film dead?
Written in 2005, this article by Jonathan Gems is today truer than ever. My colleague script consultant Phil Parker and I touched on this...
Just to be clear...
In film, the screenwriter is the STORY TELLER - as the playwright is in theatre. The film director (working with the editor – and editing...


He is still The One
For all its many faults – and advanced machines using human bodies as batteries is about as faulted an idea as you’ll get for ten bucks –...
Prometheus. A review. Seriously.
Prometheus is a hilarious comedy in the tradition of "Spaceballs" and "Men in Black" about a motley crew of forgetful, scaredy-cat...


BEAST
I had to give a shout out for BEAST (2017 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5628302/?ref_=nv_sr_3). Written and directed by Michael Pearce,...


THE FAVOURITE
Every now and again a film breaks all the rules and gets away with it. By ‘film’, of course, I mean screenplay. Because a screenplay is a...