The Keeping Room
Today’s script featured on the 2012 Black List. At one time Olivia Wilde was attached to star but dropped out owing to scheduling conflicts. The movie was released last year, […]
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Two of the last four scripts I’ve reviewed (1) are from authors who began their careers as playwrights. (I don’t want to get too far ahead of this review but) […]
Run All Night
Today’s script comes from writer Brad Ingelsby. His other work to make it to theaters is Out of the Furnace. This is the first script of his I’ve read. My […]
Blood Meridian
Today’s adapter, Bill Monahan, is the writer of many produced screenplays, including The Gambler, and The Departed. He is a great writer, and his adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel is […]
No Country For Old Men
A little while ago I was searching for a title, to a new script I’m working on, in Yeats’ poem Sailing to Byzantium. I was thinking how the line that […]
Black Box
I decided to review this script because I’d never read anything from writer David Guggenheim before. As a screenwriter whose had a good deal of success in the past few […]
Nebraska
Nebraska attracted my attention because of its black and white filming, its low key premise, and its churlish disregard for almost all areas of the four quadrants. In other words, […]
Shadow Run
Today’s script comes from writer Joe Gazzam. I’m not familiar with his other script that sold last year [Replay] but, selling two scripts in a down year for specs, makes […]
Moonrise Kingdom
A long, long time ago, I was forced [by an earnest sociology professor] to read an article called The Gifted Can’t Weigh that Giraffe. If I remember correctly, the idea […]
Gravity
Gravity is, without a doubt, the only script I can actually say is BOTH excellent and completely terrible at the same time. Usually that would be some sort of hyperbole […]
Searching for Charlie Kaufman 