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Corey Mandell begins one of the most extensive and approachable interviews ever conducted for the excellent resource on screenwriting that is Film Courage, by asserting that it is easier now than it has ever been to find someone looking to
The Japanese Kaiju genre (giant monsters and the like) is mostly nonsense, but their loose-cannon entertainment and simplicity are precisely what have made them so popular as exports, especially in the West. People love to pull up the 19th film
Martin McDonagh’s latest acerbic comedy of biting remarks, The Banshees of Inisherin, has given critics, audiences, and screenwriters the opportunity to reflect on his unique, darkly comic, gift of gab, transposed onto his frustrated characters, and best put to use
Characters who don’t have the benefit of the spoken word must be anthropomorphized visually, but how was Chuck Jones capable of anthropomorphizing a straight line. It has no eyes. No body to contort, gesture with or express posture. A line
The titular castle of Howl’s Moving Castle is an apt metaphor for the lush creativity of Ghibli studios’ output; towering and complex, yet indistinct, morphing all the time so as to leave only an impression in the mind, without the
The Razzies have a pretty poor track record when it comes to singling out the true ‘worst of the worst’ from a year in film and are more prone to riding a trend than anything else. Last year, the whipping
Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the renegades behind South Park, Team America: World Police and Cannibal! The Musical, tend to have very different needs as writers than most. The South Park schedule involves a great deal of crunch time for
These days there are still a smattering of silent films being made (mostly on the independent film market), and thank goodness for that. An artform all their own, silents have a uniquely cinematic quality every prospective filmmaker should take note
Gaiman is a master storyteller, whose works span genre and medium; short stories, novels, audio theatre, comic books, films, graphic novels and television. The Sandman, Gaiman’s greatest work, has revived its cultural standing in the wake of a well-received Netflix
All Is Lost, which chronicles the harrowing fight for survival of a veteran mariner left adrift after his vessel collides with a stray shipping container, rode what is for a Hollywood film, a distinctively simple premise to extraordinary acclaim. The