Homeworld
Today’s script comes from writer Gary Whitta. He was kind enough to post it online by way of his twitter account. One wonders what would prompt him to do such […]
Author Archives: Joel Barish
The Stanford Prison Experiment
The draft of today’s script that I read is dated August 7, 2006. The credited writers are Tim Talbott and Christopher McQuarrie. I’m not sure how much the script changed […]
Black Swan
Today’s script reminds me of an Umberto Eco novel. Take your pick. I would have preferred Foucault’s Pendulum, but that one has been so tainted by the success of the […]
Scrubbed
Today’s script review comes from a writer who has followed this blog through both its instantiations. A series of wildly irregular dominoes fell into line recently which culminated in my […]
Amadeus
What is it about our humanity that allows our perception of things to coalesce into metaphor? From my layman’s perspective, I think this is the unanswered question of semiotics. Sometimes […]
berliner
In my former reviewing life, I made a big deal about the importance of F. Scott Frazier to my development as a screenwriter. I had spent a lot of time […]
One Fell Swoop
This is one strange little script. I liked it, and will end up recommending you read it, but this is a radically infertile row our author-farmer has hoed. Since I […]
The Search
Today’s script leaves me uninspired by the prospect of this review. I can’t remember a time when I’ve been this apathetic to the object under consideration. I usually have a […]
Blink
I decided to review Blink because the premise: Logline: Years after being fully paralyzed during an infamous bank robbery, a man is taken hostage for the secrets in his head. […]
Inception
I bought into the hype machine for this movie when it first came out. My reaction to the theatre version was definitely mixed. In spite of this, I jumped at […]
Searching for Charlie Kaufman 