"Looking back, I can see how crude and over the top the belt thing was". But what is with the character who is primitive? Why should he act subtile? Laura N. ...
Altman's homage to gangster pics of yore works better as a statement on race relations, but Jennifer Jason Leigh is so unrelentingly hammy that you want to reach into the screen...
...but my good friend did, best in the sci fi category. He's crediting me for giving him good advice early on (advice he didn't always believe until famous producers met w/him...
Just watched "Gunga Din" on TV for who knows how many times. OK, the makeup was goofy, there weren't many real Indians onscreen, but wow what a cast and movie. From 1939, "Hollywood...
David Koepp is best known as one of Hollywood¹s highest paid screenwriters (and one of Spielberg¹s scribes). His screenwriting credits include everything from Toy Soldiers, Jurassic...
There was a thread awhile ago about "atomic noir" movies that mixed film noir with themes of atomic anxiety and there was some reference to a movie about some people being held...
I just watched Ghost again, for the first time since it was released, and it stands up remarkably well. I'd forgotten almost everything about it, including the adventure/thriller...
The New York Times November 9, 2009 A Movie¹s Budget Pops From the Screen By MICHAEL CIEPLY LOS ANGELES Can a movie studio make money on a film based on an original and unfamiliar...
...or at least a suggestion. I'm in LA and I shot a bit of video for a friend. It turned out okay, now I want to burn it to a DVD and give it to her for her birthday, but so far...
I'm a Mac guy, athough I spent three years writing a business computing column and know PCs, too. FWIW, Final Draft began as a Mac program, while the Screenwriter guys started...
I've prolly asked this before and am shamed to do so again, but there's something I'm not getting right. I want to save the title page for a Final Draft screenplay, but it never...
The National Geographic channel (which seems to have abandoned any idea of showing anything remotely geographical) is airing a French-made series about WWII. It's interesting for...
Hello folks, Ive only posted here once before and it, too was a request for assistance (thanks, MC!). If you dont take kindly to non- contributors coming into the group and asking...
Akiva Goldsman - he has a Ph.D., you know - is the consulting producer. I watch this show a lot and no giant spiders yet? What's wrong?
Preview of "A Day of Training" Pyongyang, November 4 (KCNA) A feature film "A Day of Training" was produced by the April 25 Film Studio of the DPRK. The film gives vivid artistic...
The Fourth Kind is the most recent film coming out that takes part in a kind of trend - films that are, for the most part, stories told by setting up a video camera and letting...
I went and saw the "Vampire Assistant" this weekend with my nephew. Not a bad movie but not a great one either. But it got me to wondering why is Hollywood so brain dead that...
There is an infinite number of opportunities to waste time on the Internet. I went to a Bangor, Maine newspaper website and they have all kinds of ways to waste time. Voting numbers...
Anyone know where I can find a copy?
...saw an ABC promo for the new series FlashForward, which seemed like an interesting idea but so far (the buzz goes) isn't really living up to the hype. The promo included the...
Nick Hornby is the acclaimed author of novels such as High Fidelity, Fever Pitch and About A Boy, to name a few, all of which have been made into films. For his latest project...
Several fan sites are carrying reviews of the script for the forthcoming Guy Ritchie Sherlock Holmes movie. Does anyone know if the final version has escaped onto the internet...
A Review of Mental Health Services for Soldiers With a Focus on Cultural Competency [link] Read along with me. Don't worry. No test.
Here's a weird one from TV... Apple laptops are showing up in all kinds of dramatic shows. Sometimes they have the Apple logo on the lid. Sometimes they have a generic disc. I...
So, I just got through watching Audition the Japanese horror movie. for those who are unfamiliar with it, the premise is that a middle- aged widower decides to remarry and in...