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Can you remember a scene in a movie where the characters are talking over each other? It doesn’t happen a lot but when it’s used effectively, it can lead to memorable and even magical movie moments. Overlapping dialogue is a
Screenwriting is a challenging craft and it’s important to be able to critique your own work in order to improve it. Having said that, it can be difficult to be objective about your own writing, especially if you’re emotionally attached
It’s only funny if someone tried their hardest. The Room is the default “so bad its good movie” and often even falsely labelled the worst film of all time. That may be giving writer and director Tommy Wiseau a smidge
We get pretty particular at ReviewMyScript. One of these days we’ll probably take on something like “How to Name Your Fictional Country”, but this week we’d like to point you in the direction of a much looser collection of general
There’s little quite so off-putting in a comedy as the cliché. That’s why Blake Anderson, Adam DeVine, Anders Holme and Kyle Newacheck, creators of TV sitcom (sort of) Workaholics, developed a sprawling board of rules. Specifically, prohibitions on the use
Author Cormac McCarthy famously hardly ever spoke a word on the subject of his writing. Regardless, his death this last week has inspired some of the most thoughtful obituaries in memory. McCarthy’s work, despite its aggressively dispiriting nature, found its
We’re a little late to the party/funeral, but Rick Dalton isn’t real so we hope you can forgive the tardiness. The 90-year-old veteran Hollywood star apparently died, peacefully in his sleep in Honolulu, Hawaii, and is survived by his mutually
This wooden ‘O’. That’s how Shakespeare decided to address the supposedly meagre stage upon which Henry the Fift is performed. It was a direct reference to the Globe theatre, where audiences packed along the edges of the globe, with the
Since May 2013, reviewmyscript.com founder, Stephen ‘Spling’ Aspeling has been the resident movie reviewer and host of Talking Movies on Fine Music Radio, where he has broadcast over 500 consecutive episodes of the weekly film review without fail. Spling’s ongoing
The Super Mario Bros. movie (the first one, from the 80s), is infamously terrible. Multiple ‘Worst Films of All Time’ lists terrible. When considering just how safe the recent animated mega-hit Mario movie played things, how could the creators of