Groundhog Day
Today’s script reinforces two of my central beliefs about the comedy genre. Every good comedy I’ve ever read features these two aspects of our craft at an expert level. 1. […]
Monthly Archives: January 2015
Huntsville
I decided to review this Black List script because, of all the loglines on the list, this one promised the most straightforward story. I was in the mood for character, […]
Fight Club
How many people reading this sentence know the first rule of Fight Club? My guess: every single one of you. Extreme resonance is demonstrated by that fact. When a line […]
Whiplash
The way momentum builds in the script for Whiplash is the perfect example of what I hope for every time I open a PDF. For the first 50-60 pages I […]
Looper
“About Joe: Time past and time future What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present.” And although it is appropriate for a […]
American Sniper
First things first. My grandfather recently passed away and the only part of the ceremony that unmastered my mastery of my emotions was when the two American Soldiers folded up […]
The Imitation Game [Script]
It is not often that a script penetrates my critic’s veil. Usually, I am able to hide a great deal of my feelings about Important Things behind this veil so […]
Her
Spike Jonze has made his name synonymous with interesting films. He has engaged, whether consciously or not, in a successful type of “brand management”. He is very much like the […]
True Detective
There is rough correlation between how many notes I take on a script and how much I enjoy a script. If I am caught up in the story, I don’t […]
Yellowstone Falls
This script came with a recommendation from site contributor walker. I had been lamenting The 2014 Black List offerings and he told me that this one [despite some challenges] was […]
Searching for Charlie Kaufman 