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Trance: a film about a guy who forgot where he put a painting
Everyone loves Danny Boyle. He wooed the world with a slew of excellent films and won over any stragglers with his Olympics opening ceremony. So everyone is almost obliged to love his latest film,...
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A short rant about things that are too long
In earlier days, I was led to believe blogs were all about angry internet recluses decrying the world around them. Until I got a grip on the whole business blog train. Then I saw how useful blogs could...
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The Digital Filmmaking Handbook by Mark Brindle – review
If you’ve ever wanted a brief introduction to everything you could conceive of relating to digital filmmaking, this is the book for you. It doesn’t look big, but in the space of some 220 pages Mark...
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Under the streets of London: “Neverwhere” by Neil Gaiman
My first exposure to the work of Neil Gaiman, I can still remember watching the original Neverwhere series on the BBC with rapt enthusiasm. It was richly full of originality, blurring local folklore...
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$70 million budget, couldn’t afford a proofreader?
Aside from the general mind-numbing amble into cliché and the colour-by-numbers approach to plot and character development, Olympus Has Fallen appears to have suffered from basic grammar errors that...
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Sentence fragments in screenwriting: bending the rules of grammar
Any student of English language is, at some point, taught that sentence fragments should be avoided. A sentence needs a verb, or a verb needs a subject, and the lack of one or the other means the...
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How not to write movie dialogue
Here’s a great scene from Sophia Coppola’s The Bling Ring that I think says a huge amount about how not to write movie dialogue. It’s the sort of forced, totally unnatural piece of dialogue that only...
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Cutting out words to improve Mad Max’s summary
I don’t know who’s responsible for the summary of Mad Max: Fury Road that’s currently loitering on the film’s IMDB page, but it’s got too many words and reads like someone’s trying too hard to sound...
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One Scene of Bad Dialogue to Stand for them All
Ever had a conversation with a friend where you’re recalling a fond, or not so fond, memory, and one of you describes everything that happened detail by detail as though giving a police report? To...
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A brilliant example of writing characters in screenplays –“The Thing”
Bill Lancaster’s screenplay for “The Thing” is a great read for a number of reasons – one that struck me immediately, though, is the quiet brilliance of the first page. As a method for introducing a...
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