Written in 2005, this article by Jonathan Gems is today truer than ever. My colleague script consultant Phil Parker and I touched on this...

In film, the screenwriter is the STORY TELLER - as the playwright is in theatre. The film director (working with the editor – and editing...

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 is a hilarious comedy in the tradition of "Spaceballs" and "Men in Black" about a motley crew of forgetful, scaredy-cat...

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,...

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...

'Hollywood’s obsession with hiding people’s imperfections borders on the ridiculous' https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/movies/holly...

In her blog for Script Magazine [https://www.scriptmag.com/features/craft-features/screenplay-feedback-notes/balls-of-steel-script-consul...

Thinking of the responsibility a screenwriter and a film director have for the success or failure (are you listening, DC?) of a film can...

Some years ago I wrote a review of one of my favourite films: ‘SHADOWLANDS’ Richard Attenborough (1993). For me, this film exemplifies...