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HOWARD CASNER CONSULTATION PHILOSOPHY, FEES and TESTIMONIALS

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MY FAVORITE MOVIE QUOTE

"I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons." Lorraine Minosa from Ace in the Hole, aka The Big Carnival

Podcasts

  • Podcasts

SUCH STUFF I AM. A NOVEL.

  • CHAPTER 1: I FLEE

RANDOM THOUGHTS

  • 3 1 2015
  • 3 12 15

RANTINGS AND RAVINGS OF A SCREENPLAY READER

  • EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SCREENWRITING CONTESTS* BUT WEREN’T AFRAID TO ASK
  • EXPOSITION: YOU CAN'T WRITE WITH IT, YOU CAN'T WRITE WITHOUT IT
  • Interview with Ann Kimbrough on Screenwriters Beat
  • Interview with Hilliard Guess on Screenwriters Rant Room
  • Interview with Jasper Cole on On the Set with Jasper Cole
  • Interview with Jesse Ikeman on Craft Truck
  • It's Time to Get Into the Spirit of the Zeitgeist
  • Loglines and Titles and Bears, Oh My!
  • RANTINGS AND RAVINGS… NOW PUBLISHED ON AMAZON
  • SUBTEXT: THAT PASSIVE/AGGRESSIVE FRIEND YOU HATE, BUT CAN’T DROP

FIVE GREATEST MOVIES AND/OR MOVIES ABOUT

  • Apocalyptic Films
  • Christianity
  • Comedies About Nazis
  • Fantasy
  • Fantasy
  • Farces
  • Female Lead Performances
  • Gay Films
  • Male Lead Performances
  • Movie Making
  • Musicals
  • Plastic/Reconstructive Surgery
  • Romantic Comedies
  • Romantic Dramas
  • Science Fiction
  • Serial Killers Comedies
  • Theater

SCREENPLAY CONSULTATION PHILOSOPHY, FEES and TESTIMONIALS

  • CONSULTATION PHILOSOPHY, FEES and TESTIMONIALS
  • Sample Coverage A
  • Sample Coverage B

SCREENWRITING

  • I KNOW
  • Loglines
  • Resume
  • The First 19 Pages of my Screenplay: The Dead Letter Office
  • The First Ten Pages of My Screenplay The Last Tree Standing Mote
  • They Only Come Out at Night

HEY! WE ALL HAD TO START SOMEWHERE

  • A Complete List Of All the Inteviews so Far: Click to browse
  • Most Recent: Brandon Alexander
  • Most Recent: Jason Cusato
  • Most Recent: Julius Kelly

THE HOWIES or best films of the year

  • A Complete of The Howies from 2008 to the present
  • The Ten Best WTF Films of the New Millenium
  • 100 Greatest Films of All Time
  • The Howies 2014
  • The Howies 2015
  • The Howies 2016
  • 2017 Howies
  • The 2018 Howies
  • 2019 Howies

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF SCREENWRITING

  • THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF SCREENWRITING

WHAT I LEARNED READING FOR CONTESTS THIS YEAR

  • COMMON CLICHES, STALE STORYLINES AND MAJOR MISTAKES
  • EARLIERLY WRITTEN POSTS HAVE BEEN REMOVED TO BE PUBLISHED IN E-BOOK FORM. MORE INFORMATION IS IN THIS POST.

BACKSTAGE AT A SCREENPLAY CONTEST

  • EARLIERLY WRITTEN POSTS HAVE BEEN REMOVED TO BE PUBLISHED IN E-BOOK FORM. MORE INFORMATION IS IN THIS POST.
  • IS THERE A BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF SCREENWRITING COMPETITIONS: Parts One through Three and Bonus Round

OBSERVATIONS ON SCREENWRITING/FILMMAKING

  • ONE SIZE DOES NOT FIT ALL: Variations on Structural Engineering When It Comes To Screenplays, Parts I-V
  • EARLIERLY WRITTEN POSTS HAVE BEEN REMOVED TO BE PUBLISHED IN E-BOOK FORM. MORE INFORMATION IS IN THIS POST.
  • THE FUTURE IS NOW: A PRETENTIOUS ESSAY FOR SCREENWRITERS and what they need to do to get their careers going
  • THE RULES OF THE SCREENWRITING GAME: Truth or clichés in a couple of screenwriting tropes
  • YOU WANT ME TO READ WHAAAAAAT? A Snob’s Guide to Alternative Sources for Structure in Plotting for Screenplay and TV Writing, Part I: Stories of an Epic Nature
  • GOD DARNIT, MR. LAMARR, YOU USE YOUR TONGUE PRETTIER THAN A TWENTY DOLLAR WHORE: some reflections on how to write effective dialog
  • THE OBJECTIVITY OF SUBJECTIVITY: A Defense of Making “Best of…” Lists
  • BAD TIMING: an essay on the passing of time in screenplays
  • YOU WANT ME TO READ WHAAAAAAT? A Snob’s Guide to Alternative Sources for Structure in Plotting for Screenplay and TV Writing, Part II: Romantic Comedies
  • YOU WANT ME TO READ WHAAAAAAT? A Snob’s Guide to Alternative Sources for Structure in Plotting for Screenplay and TV Writing, Part III: Night Time Soaps
  • YOU WANT ME TO READ WHAAAAAAT? A Snob’s Guide to Alternative Sources for Structure in Plotting for Screenplay and TV Writing, Part V: Philosophical Depth
  • OH MY GOD, THEY’RE CO-DEPENDENT: What’s More Important, Structure or Character, in Writing a Screenplay
  • DIRECTORS: CAN'T LIVE WITH THEM, CAN'T KILL THEM-Part I
  • DIRECTORS: CAN’T LIVE WITH THEM, CAN’T KILL THEM-Part II
  • STRUCTURALLY UNSOUND?: Some random thoughts on screenplay structure
  • I OBJECTIVE: HOW TO DEVELOP CRITICAL TASTE IN FILM

MOVIE REVIEWS 2017

  • 78/52
  • Afterimage
  • Baby Driver
  • Battle of the Sexes
  • Beach Rats
  • Beatriz at Dinner
  • Beauty and the Beast
  • Beguiled, The
  • Big Sick, The
  • BPM (Beats Per Minute)
  • Brad's Status
  • Brigsby Bear
  • Call Me By Your Name
  • Coco
  • Colossal
  • Dark Tower, The
  • Darkest Hour
  • Detroit
  • Dinner, The
  • Disaster Artist, The
  • Dunkirk
  • Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
  • Florida Project, The
  • Foxtrot
  • Frantz
  • Get Out
  • Ghost in the Shell
  • God's Own Country
  • Good Time
  • Graduation
  • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
  • Happiest Day in the Lofe of Olli Maki, The
  • Harmonium
  • Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
  • Hero, The
  • I, Tonya
  • It
  • It Comes at Night
  • Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
  • Justice League
  • Killing of a Sacred Deer, The
  • Lady Bird
  • Lady Macbeth
  • LEGO Batman Movie, The
  • Logan
  • Logan Lucky
  • Lovers, The
  • Marjorie Prime
  • Meyoritz Stories (Both New and Old), The
  • Moka
  • Moscow Never Sleeps
  • Mother!
  • Murder on the Orient Express
  • My Journey Through French Cinema
  • Nile Hilton Incident, The
  • Novitiate
  • Patti Cake$
  • Personal Shopper
  • Quiet Passion, A
  • Rebel in the Rye
  • Spider-Man: Homecoming
  • Square, The
  • Suburbicon
  • Their Finest
  • Thor: Ragnorok
  • Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
  • Truman
  • Unknown Girl, The
  • Victoria and Abdul
  • War for the Planet of the Apes
  • Wedding Plan, The
  • Wind River
  • Wonder Woman
  • You're Killing Me, Susana

Movie Reviews 2016

  • 10 Cloverfield Lane
  • 20th Century Women
  • Absolutely Fabulous: the Movie
  • Aferim!
  • Allied
  • Anthropoid
  • Aquarius
  • Arrival
  • Bigger Splash, A
  • Café Society
  • Captain America: Civil War
  • Carnage Park
  • Certain Women
  • Christine
  • Closet Monster
  • Commune, The
  • Confirmation
  • Conjuring 2, The
  • De Palma
  • Deadpool
  • Deepwater Horizon
  • Demolition
  • Denial
  • Doctor Strange
  • Don't Breathe
  • Don't Think Twice
  • Elle
  • Embrace of the Serpent
  • Everybody Wants Some!!
  • Eye in the Sky
  • Fantastic Beasts…
  • Fences
  • Finding Dory
  • Finest Hours, The
  • Florence Foster Jenkins
  • Genius
  • Green Room
  • Hacksaw Ridge
  • Hail, Caesar!
  • Handmaiden, The
  • Hell or High Water
  • Hello, My Name is Doris
  • Hidden Figures
  • High-Rise
  • Hunt for the Wilderpeople
  • I, Daniel Blake
  • Imperium
  • Indignation
  • Innocents, The
  • It's Only the End of the World
  • Jackie
  • Julieta
  • Jungle Book, The
  • King Cobra
  • Knight of Cups
  • La La Land
  • Lady in the Van, The
  • Light Between Oceans, The
  • Lion
  • Little Men
  • Lolo
  • Love & Friendship
  • Loving
  • Magnificent Seven, The
  • Manchester By The Sea
  • Marguerite
  • Measure of a Man, The
  • Mia Madre
  • Midnight Special
  • Miles Ahead
  • Miss Sloane
  • Moana
  • Mojave
  • Moonlight
  • My Golden Days
  • Neon Demon, The
  • Neruda
  • Nice Guys, The
  • Nocturnal Animals
  • One's Below, The
  • Passengers
  • Paterson
  • People vs. Fritz Bauer, The
  • Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
  • Rules Don't Apply
  • Salesman, The
  • Silence
  • sing
  • Sing Street
  • Slash
  • Southside With You
  • Star Trek Beyond
  • Sully
  • Swiss Army Man
  • Things to Come
  • Toni Erdmann
  • Trust, The
  • Valley of Love
  • Viva
  • Wailing, The
  • War, A
  • Wave, The
  • Where to Invade Next
  • Wiener-Dog
  • Witch, The
  • Yourself and Yours
  • Zootopia

Movie reviews 2015

  • 3 Hearts
  • 33, The
  • 45 Years
  • About Elly
  • All the Wilderness
  • Aloha
  • Ameican Ultra
  • Amy
  • Anomalisa
  • Ant-Man
  • Appropriate Behavior
  • Assassin, The
  • Atlit
  • Avengers: Age of Ultron
  • Beloved Sisters
  • Big Short, The
  • Black Mass
  • Black Sea
  • Black Souls
  • Breathe
  • Bridge of Spies
  • Brilliant Young Mind, A
  • Brooklyn
  • Carol
  • Child 44
  • Cinderella
  • Coming Home
  • Connection, The
  • Cop Car
  • Creed
  • Crimson Peak
  • Cupcakes
  • Danish Girl, The
  • Diary of a Teenage Girl
  • Dope
  • Eden
  • End of the Tour, The
  • Ex Machina
  • Faults
  • Final Girls, The
  • Focus
  • Furious 7
  • Gift, The
  • Goodnight Mommy
  • Grandma
  • Hateful Eight, The
  • He Never Died
  • Hitchcock/Truffaut
  • Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2, The
  • I'll See You In My Dreams
  • In the Name of My Daughter
  • In the Shadow of Women
  • Inside Out
  • Irrational Man
  • It Follows
  • Jurassic World
  • Kingsman: The Secret Service
  • Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter
  • L'Affaire SK1
  • Labyrinth of Lies
  • Last Hammer Blow, The
  • Legend
  • Little Accidents
  • Lobster, The
  • Loft, The
  • Love & Mercy
  • Macbeth
  • Mad Max: Fury Road
  • Mafia Only Kills in Summer, The
  • Magic Mike XXL
  • Man From Reno
  • Martian, The
  • Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
  • Minions
  • Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
  • Mistress America
  • Mommy
  • Most Violent Year, A
  • Mr. Holmes
  • My Friend Victoria
  • New Girlfriend, The
  • Night Before, The
  • Night Owls
  • Overnight, The
  • Paddington
  • Pawn Sacrifice
  • Peanuts Movie, The
  • Phoenix
  • Predestination
  • Queen and Country
  • Queen of Earth
  • Revenant, The
  • Room
  • Run All Night
  • Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The
  • Shaun the Sheep Movie
  • She's Funny That Way
  • Sicario
  • Son of a Gun
  • Song of the Sea
  • Southpaw
  • Spectre
  • Spotlight
  • Spy
  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens
  • Steve Jobs
  • Straight Outta Compton
  • Suffragette
  • Tangerine
  • Ted 2
  • Theeb
  • Timbuktu
  • Trainwreck
  • Tribe, The
  • True Story
  • Trumbo
  • Truth
  • Unfriended
  • Welcome to me
  • What Happened, Miss Simone?
  • What We Do in the Shadows
  • While We're Young
  • Winter Sleep
  • Wolf at the Door, A
  • Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet, The
  • Youth

Movie Reviews 2014

  • '71
  • 7 Boxes
  • 9 Month Stretch
  • Adult World
  • After the Dark
  • Amazing Catfish, The
  • Amazing Spider-Man 2, The
  • American Sniper
  • Babadook, The
  • Bad Words
  • Begin Again
  • Best Offer, The
  • Big Eyes
  • Big Hero 6
  • Bird People
  • Birdman
  • Blue Room, The
  • Blue Ruin
  • Borgman
  • Boyhood
  • Calvary
  • Captain America: The Winter Soldier
  • Cheap Thrills
  • Child's Pose
  • Chinese Puzzle
  • Citizenfour
  • Clouds of Silas Maria, The
  • Coherence
  • Cold Comes the Night
  • Cold in July
  • Copenhagen
  • Dance of Reality, The
  • Date and Switch
  • Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
  • Dear White People
  • Diplomacy
  • Dog, The
  • Dormant Beauty
  • Double, The
  • Drop, The
  • Edge of Tomorrow
  • Empty Hours, The
  • Enemy
  • Equalizer, The
  • Ernest & Celestine
  • Fading Gigolo
  • Fault in Our Stars, The
  • Force Majeure
  • Foxcatcher
  • Frank
  • Gabrielle
  • Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
  • Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, A
  • God Help the Girl
  • Godzilla
  • Gone Girl
  • Grand Budapest Hotel, The
  • Guardians of the Galaxy
  • Guest, The
  • Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, The
  • Homesman, The
  • Horns
  • How I Came to Hate Math
  • Human Capital
  • Hunger Games: Mockingjay-Part I, The
  • Ida
  • Ilo Ilo
  • Imitation Game, The
  • Immigrant, The
  • In Bloom
  • In Fear
  • In Secret
  • Inherent Vice
  • Interstellar
  • Interview, The
  • Into the Woods
  • Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
  • Jealousy
  • Jersey Boys
  • Joe
  • Judge, The
  • Junk
  • Land Ho
  • Last of Robin Hood, The
  • Last Sentence, The
  • Lego Movie, The
  • Leviathan
  • Life Itself
  • Life of Crime
  • Lilting
  • Links, The
  • Listen Up Philip
  • Locke
  • Love is Strange
  • Lucky Bastard
  • Lucky Them
  • Lucy
  • Lunchbox, The
  • Magic in the Moonlight
  • Maleficent
  • Maps to the Stars
  • Me, Myself and Mum
  • Mea Culpa
  • Miss Julie
  • Missing Picture, The
  • Moment, The
  • Monuments Men, The
  • Most Wanted Man, A
  • Mr. Turner
  • My Old Lady
  • Neighbors
  • Night Moves
  • Nightcrawler
  • Noah
  • Not My Type
  • Nymphomaniac: Vol. 1
  • Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
  • Obvious Child
  • Omar
  • On My Way
  • Only Lovers Left Alive
  • Palo Alto
  • Policeman
  • Pride
  • Priest's Children, The
  • Rosewater
  • Rover, The
  • Saint Laurent
  • Selma
  • Signal, The
  • Skeleton Twins, The
  • Snowpiercer
  • St. Vincent
  • Starred Up
  • Still Alice
  • Tale of the Princess Kaguya, The
  • Theory of Everything, The
  • This Is Where I Leave You
  • To Be Takei
  • Trapped
  • Turning Tide
  • Tusk
  • Two Days, One Night
  • Two Faces of January, The
  • Unbroken
  • Under the Skin
  • Venus in Fur
  • Violette
  • Viva la liberta
  • Way He Looks, The
  • We Are the Best!
  • Whiplash
  • Wild
  • Wild Tales
  • Wind Rises, The
  • Words and Music
  • X-Men: Days of Future Past
  • Young & Beautiful

Movie Reviews 2013

  • 12 Years a Slave
  • 15 Years and One Day
  • 5 Broken Cameras
  • 56 Up
  • Aftermath
  • Aliyah
  • All is Lost
  • American Hustle
  • Arthur Newman
  • Attack, The
  • August: Osage County
  • Bastards
  • Beautiful Creatures
  • Before Midnight
  • Birth of the Living Dead
  • Blancanieves
  • Bling Ring, The
  • Blue Caprice
  • Blue is the Warmest Color
  • Blue Jasmine
  • Broken Circle Breakdown, The
  • Byzantium
  • Camille Claudel 1915
  • Canyons, The
  • Captain Phillips
  • Closed Curtain
  • Company You Keep, The
  • Concussion
  • Congratulations!
  • Conjuring, The
  • Dallas Buyers Club
  • Dark Tourist
  • Dirties, The
  • Dirty Wars
  • Disconnect
  • Don Jon
  • Dorfman in Love
  • East, The
  • Eddie: The Sleepwalking Cannibal
  • Elysium
  • Enough Said
  • Escape From Tomorrow
  • Fifth Estate, The
  • Fire in the Blood
  • Frances Ha
  • Frozen
  • Fruitvale Station
  • Gatekeepers, The
  • German Doctor, The
  • Ginger & Rosa
  • Gloria
  • Gravity
  • Great Beauty, The
  • Great Gatsby
  • Great Passage, The
  • Hannah Arendt
  • Her
  • Hijacking, A
  • History of Future Folk, The
  • Hobbit, The Desolation of Smaug, The
  • How To Survive a Plague
  • I'm So Excited
  • Iceman, The
  • In a World…
  • In the Fog
  • Informant
  • Inside Llewyn Davis
  • Into the House
  • Iron Man 3
  • It's a Disaster
  • Jack, the Giant Killer
  • Kill Your Darlings
  • Kings of Summer, The
  • Lee Daniels' The Buter
  • Let My People Go!
  • Like Someone In Love
  • Lone Survivor
  • Look of Love, The
  • Lore
  • Love is All You Need
  • Machete Kills
  • Man of Steel
  • Monk, The
  • Much Ado About Nothing
  • Mud
  • Museum Hours
  • Nebraska
  • No
  • Now You See Me
  • Oblivion
  • On the Road
  • Only God Forgives
  • Out in the Dark
  • Out of the Furnace
  • Oz, The Great and Powerful
  • Pacific Rim
  • Past, The
  • Patience Stone, The
  • Philomena
  • Place Beyond the Pines
  • Populaire
  • Prince Avalanche
  • Prisoners
  • Rabbi's Cat, The
  • Reality
  • Red 2
  • Room 237
  • Rush
  • Rust and Bone
  • Sal
  • Salinger
  • Saving Mr. Banks
  • Seduced and Abandoned
  • Shanghai Calling
  • Short Term 12
  • Side Effects
  • Sightseers
  • Silence, The
  • Single Shot, A
  • Spectacular Now
  • Spring Breakers
  • Star Trek Into Darkness
  • Stoker
  • Stories We Tell
  • Stranger by the Lake
  • Thanks for Sharing
  • This is the End
  • To the Wonder
  • Tom at the Farm
  • Touch of Sin, A
  • Upstream Color
  • Vic + Flo Saw a Bear
  • War Witch
  • Wasteland
  • Way, Way Back, The
  • We and the I, The
  • We Are What We Are
  • What Maizie Knew
  • White House Down
  • Wolf of Wall Street
  • Wolverine, The
  • Word's End, The
  • World War Z
  • Yossi
  • You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
  • You Will Be My Son

MOVIE REVIEWS 2012

  • Ai Wei Wei: Never Sorry
  • Amazing Spider-Man, The
  • Amour
  • Angel's Share, The
  • Any Day Now
  • Arbitrage
  • Argo
  • Avengers, The
  • Barbara
  • Beasts of the Southern Wild
  • Berberian Sound Studio
  • Bernie
  • Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The
  • Better Life, A
  • Beyond the Hills
  • Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
  • Bourne Legacy, The
  • Brave
  • Burn
  • Cabin in the Woods
  • Caesar Must Die
  • Cat in Paris, A
  • Cedar Rapids
  • Central Park Five, The
  • Cheerful Weather for a Wedding
  • Clandestine Childhood
  • Cloud Atlas
  • Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same
  • Collaborator
  • Combat Girls
  • Compliance
  • Cosmopolis
  • Craigslist Joe
  • Damsels in Distress
  • Dark Horse
  • Dark Knight Rises, The
  • Deep Blue Sea, The
  • Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
  • Django Unchained
  • Easy Money
  • Electrick Children
  • End of Watch
  • Everybody in Our Family
  • Eye of the Storm, The
  • Flight
  • Footnote
  • Frankenweenie
  • Gayby
  • Goodbye First Love
  • Hanna
  • Headhunters
  • Hell and Back Again
  • Hitchcock
  • Hobbit, An Unexpected Journey, The
  • Holy Motors
  • Hunger Games, The
  • Hunt, The
  • I Wish
  • Imposter, The
  • Innkeepers, The
  • Intouchables, The
  • Invisible War, The
  • Jeff, Who Lives at Home
  • Keep the Lights On
  • Killer Joe
  • Kon-Tiki
  • Kung Fu Panda 2
  • Laurence Anyways
  • Lawless
  • Les Miserables
  • Life of Pi
  • Lincoln
  • Looper
  • Lunch
  • Madrid 1987
  • Magic Mike
  • Master, The
  • Moonrise Kingdom
  • Natural Selection
  • On the Sea (Sul Mare)
  • Oranges, The
  • Our Children
  • Paperboy, The
  • Perks of Being a Wildflower, The
  • Polisse
  • Prometheus
  • Promised Land
  • Quartet
  • Raid: Redemption, The
  • Rebellion
  • Road, The
  • Royal Affair, A
  • Safety Not Guaranteed
  • Savages
  • Sessions, The
  • Seven Psychopaths
  • Side by Side
  • Silver Linings Playbook
  • Sister
  • Skyfall
  • Snow White and the Hunstman
  • Snowtown Murders, The
  • Something in the Air
  • Take This Waltz
  • Thin Ice
  • To Rome With Love
  • Turn Me On, Damn It
  • Unforgivable
  • We Have A Pope
  • West of Memphis
  • Woman in Black, The
  • Zero Dark Thirty

Movie Reviews 2011

  • Appropriate Adult
  • Brighton Rock (2011)
  • Bullhead
  • Carnage
  • Dangerous Method, A
  • Declaration of War
  • Grey, The
  • Haywire
  • If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
  • In Darkness
  • Iron Lady, The
  • Kill List
  • Margaret
  • Miss Bala
  • Norwegian Wood
  • Separation, A
  • Shame
  • Warrior

MOVIE REVIEWS 2010

  • 127 Hours
  • 20 Cigarettes
  • 3 Idiots
  • 8: The Mormon Proposition
  • Alice in Wonderland
  • American, The
  • Animal Kingdom
  • Another Year
  • Art of the Steal, The
  • Biutiful
  • Black Swan
  • Blue Valentino
  • Brotherhood
  • Cairo Time
  • Carancho
  • Carlos
  • Casino Jack and the United States of Money
  • City Island
  • Crazies, The
  • Cyrus
  • Date Night
  • District 13: Ultimatum
  • Dogtooth
  • Dos Hernanos
  • Dossier K
  • Edge of Darkness
  • Enter the Void
  • Everyone Else
  • Father of My Children, The
  • Fighter, The
  • Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glen Gould
  • Get Low
  • Ghost Writer, The
  • Girl on the Train, The
  • Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, The
  • Girl Who Played With Fire
  • Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The
  • Green Zone, The
  • Greenberg
  • Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench
  • Handsome Harry
  • Happiness Runs
  • Harlan: In the Shadow of Jud Suss
  • Harmony and Me
  • Heartbreaker
  • Henri-George Clouzot's Inferno
  • Hideaway
  • Hot Tub Time Machine
  • Human Resources Manager, The
  • I Am Love
  • Illusionist, The
  • In a Better World
  • Inception
  • Iron Man 2
  • It Came From Kuchar
  • Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
  • Kids Are All Right, The
  • Killer Inside Me
  • King's Speech, The
  • Life During Wartime
  • Mesrine, Part I: Killer Instinct
  • Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, The
  • Mother
  • Mother and Child
  • My Father's Guests
  • My Name is Khan
  • Mysteries of Lisbon
  • Myth of the American Sleepover
  • Outside the Law
  • Please Give
  • Rabbit Hole
  • Rare Exports
  • Red Riding Trilogy, The
  • Restrepo
  • Scott Pilgram v. The World
  • Secret in Their Eyes
  • Sex and the City 2
  • Shutter Island
  • Social Network, The
  • Sphinx
  • Submarino
  • Terribly Happy
  • The Agony and the Esctasy of Phil Spector
  • Tiny Furniture
  • Town Called Panic, A
  • Town, The
  • Toy Story 3
  • True Grit
  • Unfinished Film, An
  • When We Leave
  • Winter's Bones

MOVIE REVIEWS 2009

  • (500) Days of Summer
  • 12
  • 9
  • Adventureland
  • Ajami
  • And a Warm Heart
  • Angels and Demons
  • Art of Being Straight, The
  • Avatar
  • Baader Meinhof Complex, The
  • Baby Love
  • Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call, New Orleans
  • Beaches of Agnes, The
  • Blue Tooth Virgin
  • Boondock Saints, II: All Saints Day, The
  • Boys, The
  • Bright Star
  • Broken Embraces
  • Brothers Bloom, The
  • Capitalism, A Love Story
  • City of Life and Death
  • Coco Before Chanel
  • Cold Souls
  • Collapse
  • Crazy Heart
  • Damned United, The
  • Dark and Stormy Night, A
  • Departures
  • District 9
  • Drag Me To Hell
  • Duplicity
  • Easy Virtue
  • Education, An
  • Endgame
  • Evangelion 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone
  • Everybody's Fine
  • Fantastic Mr. Fox, The
  • Final Arragements
  • Flame and Citron
  • Girl From Monaco
  • Great Buck Howard, The
  • Hangover, The
  • Headless Woman, The
  • House of the Devil, The
  • Humpday
  • Hurt Locker, The
  • I Killed My Mother
  • I Love You Man
  • Il Divo
  • Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, The
  • In the Loop
  • Informant, The
  • Inglourious Basterds
  • International
  • Invictus
  • It's Complicated
  • Julia
  • Julie & Julia
  • Last Station, The
  • Little Ashes
  • Lorna's Silence
  • Love in Transit
  • Lovely Bones, The
  • Maid, The
  • Me and Orson Welles
  • Merry Gentleman, The
  • Messenger, The
  • Misfortunates, The
  • Missing Person, The
  • Mission, La
  • Moon
  • Mr. Right
  • Music on Hold
  • Must Read After My Death
  • My One and Only
  • Mysteries of Pittsburgh
  • New Twenty
  • Newcastle
  • Nine
  • Not Quite Hollywood
  • O'Horton
  • Of Time and the City
  • OSS 117: Lost in Rio
  • OSS 117: Lost in Rio
  • Outrage
  • Paris
  • Paris 36
  • Perestroika
  • Phoebe in Wonderland
  • Pirate Radio
  • Police Adjective
  • Precious
  • Prophet, A
  • Public Enemies
  • Reader, The (2008)
  • Red Cliff
  • Revanche
  • Rudo y Cursi
  • Secret of the Grain, The
  • Secrets of State
  • Seraphine
  • Serbis
  • Serious Man, A
  • Sherlock Holmes
  • Shuttle
  • Single Man, A
  • Sita Sings the Blues
  • Sleep Dealer
  • Something's Gonna Live
  • Star Trek
  • State of Play
  • Still Walking
  • Summer Hours
  • Sunshine Cleaning
  • Surveillance
  • Taxidermia
  • Tear this Heart Out
  • Tetro
  • Thirst
  • Three Monkeys
  • Tokyo Sonata
  • Tokyo!
  • Uncertainty
  • Up
  • Up in the Air
  • Vicious Kind, The
  • Vincere
  • Watchmen
  • Whatever Works
  • Where the Wild Things Are
  • White Ribbon, The
  • Woman in Berlin, A
  • Yoo Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg
  • Zombieland

MISCELLANEOUS REVIEWS

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  • 8 1/2 (1963)
  • Battleground (1949)
  • Big Sky, The (1953)
  • Cat O' Nine Tails (Il gatto a nove code) (1971)
  • Chase, The (1966)
  • Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The (2008)
  • Entertainer, The (1960)
  • Flying Down to Rio (1933)
  • Frost/Nixon (2008)
  • Grand Illusion (La Grande Illusion) (1937)
  • Hangmen Also Die! (1943)
  • History is Made at Night (1937)
  • Indiscretion of an American Wife (1953)
  • Je t'aime je t'aime (1968)
  • Last Deadly Mission, The (aka Mr. 73) (2008)
  • Madam Satan (1930)
  • Mauvais Sang (The Night is Young) (1986)
  • Milk (2008)
  • Night Train to Munich (1941)
  • OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006)
  • Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray In Lithuania (1999)
  • Pulp (1972)
  • Quadrophenia (1979)
  • Shanghai Gesture, The (1941)
  • Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
  • Stendhal Syndrome, The (1996)
  • Summer's Tale, A (1996)
  • To Have and To Have Not (1944)
  • Two Men in Manhattan (1959)

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MISCELLANEOUS REVIEWS

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  • 8 1/2 (1963)
  • Battleground (1949)
  • Big Sky, The (1953)
  • Cat O' Nine Tails (Il gatto a nove code) (1971)
  • Chase, The (1966)
  • Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The (2008)
  • Entertainer, The (1960)
  • Flying Down to Rio (1933)
  • Frost/Nixon (2008)
  • Grand Illusion (La Grande Illusion) (1937)
  • Hangmen Also Die! (1943)
  • History is Made at Night (1937)
  • Indiscretion of an American Wife (1953)
  • Je t'aime je t'aime (1968)
  • Last Deadly Mission, The (aka Mr. 73) (2008)
  • Madam Satan (1930)
  • Mauvais Sang (The Night is Young) (1986)
  • Milk (2008)
  • Night Train to Munich (1941)
  • OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006)
  • Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray In Lithuania (1999)
  • Pulp (1972)
  • Quadrophenia (1979)
  • Shanghai Gesture, The (1941)
  • Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
  • Stendhal Syndrome, The (1996)
  • Summer's Tale, A (1996)
  • To Have and To Have Not (1944)
  • Two Men in Manhattan (1959)

MOVIE REVIEWS 2009

  • (500) Days of Summer
  • 12
  • 9
  • Adventureland
  • Ajami
  • And a Warm Heart
  • Angels and Demons
  • Art of Being Straight, The
  • Avatar
  • Baader Meinhof Complex, The
  • Baby Love
  • Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call, New Orleans
  • Beaches of Agnes, The
  • Blue Tooth Virgin
  • Boondock Saints, II: All Saints Day, The
  • Boys, The
  • Bright Star
  • Broken Embraces
  • Brothers Bloom, The
  • Capitalism, A Love Story
  • City of Life and Death
  • Coco Before Chanel
  • Cold Souls
  • Collapse
  • Crazy Heart
  • Damned United, The
  • Dark and Stormy Night, A
  • Departures
  • District 9
  • Drag Me To Hell
  • Duplicity
  • Easy Virtue
  • Education, An
  • Endgame
  • Evangelion 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone
  • Everybody's Fine
  • Fantastic Mr. Fox, The
  • Final Arragements
  • Flame and Citron
  • Girl From Monaco
  • Great Buck Howard, The
  • Hangover, The
  • Headless Woman, The
  • House of the Devil, The
  • Humpday
  • Hurt Locker, The
  • I Killed My Mother
  • I Love You Man
  • Il Divo
  • Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, The
  • In the Loop
  • Informant, The
  • Inglourious Basterds
  • International
  • Invictus
  • It's Complicated
  • Julia
  • Julie & Julia
  • Last Station, The
  • Little Ashes
  • Lorna's Silence
  • Love in Transit
  • Lovely Bones, The
  • Maid, The
  • Me and Orson Welles
  • Merry Gentleman, The
  • Messenger, The
  • Misfortunates, The
  • Missing Person, The
  • Mission, La
  • Moon
  • Mr. Right
  • Music on Hold
  • Must Read After My Death
  • My One and Only
  • Mysteries of Pittsburgh
  • New Twenty
  • Newcastle
  • Nine
  • Not Quite Hollywood
  • O'Horton
  • Of Time and the City
  • OSS 117: Lost in Rio
  • OSS 117: Lost in Rio
  • Outrage
  • Paris
  • Paris 36
  • Perestroika
  • Phoebe in Wonderland
  • Pirate Radio
  • Police Adjective
  • Precious
  • Prophet, A
  • Public Enemies
  • Reader, The (2008)
  • Red Cliff
  • Revanche
  • Rudo y Cursi
  • Secret of the Grain, The
  • Secrets of State
  • Seraphine
  • Serbis
  • Serious Man, A
  • Sherlock Holmes
  • Shuttle
  • Single Man, A
  • Sita Sings the Blues
  • Sleep Dealer
  • Something's Gonna Live
  • Star Trek
  • State of Play
  • Still Walking
  • Summer Hours
  • Sunshine Cleaning
  • Surveillance
  • Taxidermia
  • Tear this Heart Out
  • Tetro
  • Thirst
  • Three Monkeys
  • Tokyo Sonata
  • Tokyo!
  • Uncertainty
  • Up
  • Up in the Air
  • Vicious Kind, The
  • Vincere
  • Watchmen
  • Whatever Works
  • Where the Wild Things Are
  • White Ribbon, The
  • Woman in Berlin, A
  • Yoo Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg
  • Zombieland

MOVIE REVIEWS 2010

  • 127 Hours
  • 20 Cigarettes
  • 3 Idiots
  • 8: The Mormon Proposition
  • Alice in Wonderland
  • American, The
  • Animal Kingdom
  • Another Year
  • Art of the Steal, The
  • Biutiful
  • Black Swan
  • Blue Valentino
  • Brotherhood
  • Cairo Time
  • Carancho
  • Carlos
  • Casino Jack and the United States of Money
  • City Island
  • Crazies, The
  • Cyrus
  • Date Night
  • District 13: Ultimatum
  • Dogtooth
  • Dos Hernanos
  • Dossier K
  • Edge of Darkness
  • Enter the Void
  • Everyone Else
  • Father of My Children, The
  • Fighter, The
  • Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glen Gould
  • Get Low
  • Ghost Writer, The
  • Girl on the Train, The
  • Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, The
  • Girl Who Played With Fire
  • Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The
  • Green Zone, The
  • Greenberg
  • Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench
  • Handsome Harry
  • Happiness Runs
  • Harlan: In the Shadow of Jud Suss
  • Harmony and Me
  • Heartbreaker
  • Henri-George Clouzot's Inferno
  • Hideaway
  • Hot Tub Time Machine
  • Human Resources Manager, The
  • I Am Love
  • Illusionist, The
  • In a Better World
  • Inception
  • Iron Man 2
  • It Came From Kuchar
  • Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
  • Kids Are All Right, The
  • Killer Inside Me
  • King's Speech, The
  • Life During Wartime
  • Mesrine, Part I: Killer Instinct
  • Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, The
  • Mother
  • Mother and Child
  • My Father's Guests
  • My Name is Khan
  • Mysteries of Lisbon
  • Myth of the American Sleepover
  • Outside the Law
  • Please Give
  • Rabbit Hole
  • Rare Exports
  • Red Riding Trilogy, The
  • Restrepo
  • Scott Pilgram v. The World
  • Secret in Their Eyes
  • Sex and the City 2
  • Shutter Island
  • Social Network, The
  • Sphinx
  • Submarino
  • Terribly Happy
  • The Agony and the Esctasy of Phil Spector
  • Tiny Furniture
  • Town Called Panic, A
  • Town, The
  • Toy Story 3
  • True Grit
  • Unfinished Film, An
  • When We Leave
  • Winter's Bones

Movie Reviews 2011

  • Appropriate Adult
  • Brighton Rock (2011)
  • Bullhead
  • Carnage
  • Dangerous Method, A
  • Declaration of War
  • Grey, The
  • Haywire
  • If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
  • In Darkness
  • Iron Lady, The
  • Kill List
  • Margaret
  • Miss Bala
  • Norwegian Wood
  • Separation, A
  • Shame
  • Warrior

MOVIE REVIEWS 2012

  • Ai Wei Wei: Never Sorry
  • Amazing Spider-Man, The
  • Amour
  • Angel's Share, The
  • Any Day Now
  • Arbitrage
  • Argo
  • Avengers, The
  • Barbara
  • Beasts of the Southern Wild
  • Berberian Sound Studio
  • Bernie
  • Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The
  • Better Life, A
  • Beyond the Hills
  • Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
  • Bourne Legacy, The
  • Brave
  • Burn
  • Cabin in the Woods
  • Caesar Must Die
  • Cat in Paris, A
  • Cedar Rapids
  • Central Park Five, The
  • Cheerful Weather for a Wedding
  • Clandestine Childhood
  • Cloud Atlas
  • Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same
  • Collaborator
  • Combat Girls
  • Compliance
  • Cosmopolis
  • Craigslist Joe
  • Damsels in Distress
  • Dark Horse
  • Dark Knight Rises, The
  • Deep Blue Sea, The
  • Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
  • Django Unchained
  • Easy Money
  • Electrick Children
  • End of Watch
  • Everybody in Our Family
  • Eye of the Storm, The
  • Flight
  • Footnote
  • Frankenweenie
  • Gayby
  • Goodbye First Love
  • Hanna
  • Headhunters
  • Hell and Back Again
  • Hitchcock
  • Hobbit, An Unexpected Journey, The
  • Holy Motors
  • Hunger Games, The
  • Hunt, The
  • I Wish
  • Imposter, The
  • Innkeepers, The
  • Intouchables, The
  • Invisible War, The
  • Jeff, Who Lives at Home
  • Keep the Lights On
  • Killer Joe
  • Kon-Tiki
  • Kung Fu Panda 2
  • Laurence Anyways
  • Lawless
  • Les Miserables
  • Life of Pi
  • Lincoln
  • Looper
  • Lunch
  • Madrid 1987
  • Magic Mike
  • Master, The
  • Moonrise Kingdom
  • Natural Selection
  • On the Sea (Sul Mare)
  • Oranges, The
  • Our Children
  • Paperboy, The
  • Perks of Being a Wildflower, The
  • Polisse
  • Prometheus
  • Promised Land
  • Quartet
  • Raid: Redemption, The
  • Rebellion
  • Road, The
  • Royal Affair, A
  • Safety Not Guaranteed
  • Savages
  • Sessions, The
  • Seven Psychopaths
  • Side by Side
  • Silver Linings Playbook
  • Sister
  • Skyfall
  • Snow White and the Hunstman
  • Snowtown Murders, The
  • Something in the Air
  • Take This Waltz
  • Thin Ice
  • To Rome With Love
  • Turn Me On, Damn It
  • Unforgivable
  • We Have A Pope
  • West of Memphis
  • Woman in Black, The
  • Zero Dark Thirty

Movie Reviews 2013

  • 12 Years a Slave
  • 15 Years and One Day
  • 5 Broken Cameras
  • 56 Up
  • Aftermath
  • Aliyah
  • All is Lost
  • American Hustle
  • Arthur Newman
  • Attack, The
  • August: Osage County
  • Bastards
  • Beautiful Creatures
  • Before Midnight
  • Birth of the Living Dead
  • Blancanieves
  • Bling Ring, The
  • Blue Caprice
  • Blue is the Warmest Color
  • Blue Jasmine
  • Broken Circle Breakdown, The
  • Byzantium
  • Camille Claudel 1915
  • Canyons, The
  • Captain Phillips
  • Closed Curtain
  • Company You Keep, The
  • Concussion
  • Congratulations!
  • Conjuring, The
  • Dallas Buyers Club
  • Dark Tourist
  • Dirties, The
  • Dirty Wars
  • Disconnect
  • Don Jon
  • Dorfman in Love
  • East, The
  • Eddie: The Sleepwalking Cannibal
  • Elysium
  • Enough Said
  • Escape From Tomorrow
  • Fifth Estate, The
  • Fire in the Blood
  • Frances Ha
  • Frozen
  • Fruitvale Station
  • Gatekeepers, The
  • German Doctor, The
  • Ginger & Rosa
  • Gloria
  • Gravity
  • Great Beauty, The
  • Great Gatsby
  • Great Passage, The
  • Hannah Arendt
  • Her
  • Hijacking, A
  • History of Future Folk, The
  • Hobbit, The Desolation of Smaug, The
  • How To Survive a Plague
  • I'm So Excited
  • Iceman, The
  • In a World…
  • In the Fog
  • Informant
  • Inside Llewyn Davis
  • Into the House
  • Iron Man 3
  • It's a Disaster
  • Jack, the Giant Killer
  • Kill Your Darlings
  • Kings of Summer, The
  • Lee Daniels' The Buter
  • Let My People Go!
  • Like Someone In Love
  • Lone Survivor
  • Look of Love, The
  • Lore
  • Love is All You Need
  • Machete Kills
  • Man of Steel
  • Monk, The
  • Much Ado About Nothing
  • Mud
  • Museum Hours
  • Nebraska
  • No
  • Now You See Me
  • Oblivion
  • On the Road
  • Only God Forgives
  • Out in the Dark
  • Out of the Furnace
  • Oz, The Great and Powerful
  • Pacific Rim
  • Past, The
  • Patience Stone, The
  • Philomena
  • Place Beyond the Pines
  • Populaire
  • Prince Avalanche
  • Prisoners
  • Rabbi's Cat, The
  • Reality
  • Red 2
  • Room 237
  • Rush
  • Rust and Bone
  • Sal
  • Salinger
  • Saving Mr. Banks
  • Seduced and Abandoned
  • Shanghai Calling
  • Short Term 12
  • Side Effects
  • Sightseers
  • Silence, The
  • Single Shot, A
  • Spectacular Now
  • Spring Breakers
  • Star Trek Into Darkness
  • Stoker
  • Stories We Tell
  • Stranger by the Lake
  • Thanks for Sharing
  • This is the End
  • To the Wonder
  • Tom at the Farm
  • Touch of Sin, A
  • Upstream Color
  • Vic + Flo Saw a Bear
  • War Witch
  • Wasteland
  • Way, Way Back, The
  • We and the I, The
  • We Are What We Are
  • What Maizie Knew
  • White House Down
  • Wolf of Wall Street
  • Wolverine, The
  • Word's End, The
  • World War Z
  • Yossi
  • You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
  • You Will Be My Son

Movie Reviews 2014

  • '71
  • 7 Boxes
  • 9 Month Stretch
  • Adult World
  • After the Dark
  • Amazing Catfish, The
  • Amazing Spider-Man 2, The
  • American Sniper
  • Babadook, The
  • Bad Words
  • Begin Again
  • Best Offer, The
  • Big Eyes
  • Big Hero 6
  • Bird People
  • Birdman
  • Blue Room, The
  • Blue Ruin
  • Borgman
  • Boyhood
  • Calvary
  • Captain America: The Winter Soldier
  • Cheap Thrills
  • Child's Pose
  • Chinese Puzzle
  • Citizenfour
  • Clouds of Silas Maria, The
  • Coherence
  • Cold Comes the Night
  • Cold in July
  • Copenhagen
  • Dance of Reality, The
  • Date and Switch
  • Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
  • Dear White People
  • Diplomacy
  • Dog, The
  • Dormant Beauty
  • Double, The
  • Drop, The
  • Edge of Tomorrow
  • Empty Hours, The
  • Enemy
  • Equalizer, The
  • Ernest & Celestine
  • Fading Gigolo
  • Fault in Our Stars, The
  • Force Majeure
  • Foxcatcher
  • Frank
  • Gabrielle
  • Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
  • Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, A
  • God Help the Girl
  • Godzilla
  • Gone Girl
  • Grand Budapest Hotel, The
  • Guardians of the Galaxy
  • Guest, The
  • Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, The
  • Homesman, The
  • Horns
  • How I Came to Hate Math
  • Human Capital
  • Hunger Games: Mockingjay-Part I, The
  • Ida
  • Ilo Ilo
  • Imitation Game, The
  • Immigrant, The
  • In Bloom
  • In Fear
  • In Secret
  • Inherent Vice
  • Interstellar
  • Interview, The
  • Into the Woods
  • Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
  • Jealousy
  • Jersey Boys
  • Joe
  • Judge, The
  • Junk
  • Land Ho
  • Last of Robin Hood, The
  • Last Sentence, The
  • Lego Movie, The
  • Leviathan
  • Life Itself
  • Life of Crime
  • Lilting
  • Links, The
  • Listen Up Philip
  • Locke
  • Love is Strange
  • Lucky Bastard
  • Lucky Them
  • Lucy
  • Lunchbox, The
  • Magic in the Moonlight
  • Maleficent
  • Maps to the Stars
  • Me, Myself and Mum
  • Mea Culpa
  • Miss Julie
  • Missing Picture, The
  • Moment, The
  • Monuments Men, The
  • Most Wanted Man, A
  • Mr. Turner
  • My Old Lady
  • Neighbors
  • Night Moves
  • Nightcrawler
  • Noah
  • Not My Type
  • Nymphomaniac: Vol. 1
  • Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
  • Obvious Child
  • Omar
  • On My Way
  • Only Lovers Left Alive
  • Palo Alto
  • Policeman
  • Pride
  • Priest's Children, The
  • Rosewater
  • Rover, The
  • Saint Laurent
  • Selma
  • Signal, The
  • Skeleton Twins, The
  • Snowpiercer
  • St. Vincent
  • Starred Up
  • Still Alice
  • Tale of the Princess Kaguya, The
  • Theory of Everything, The
  • This Is Where I Leave You
  • To Be Takei
  • Trapped
  • Turning Tide
  • Tusk
  • Two Days, One Night
  • Two Faces of January, The
  • Unbroken
  • Under the Skin
  • Venus in Fur
  • Violette
  • Viva la liberta
  • Way He Looks, The
  • We Are the Best!
  • Whiplash
  • Wild
  • Wild Tales
  • Wind Rises, The
  • Words and Music
  • X-Men: Days of Future Past
  • Young & Beautiful

Movie reviews 2015

  • 3 Hearts
  • 33, The
  • 45 Years
  • About Elly
  • All the Wilderness
  • Aloha
  • Ameican Ultra
  • Amy
  • Anomalisa
  • Ant-Man
  • Appropriate Behavior
  • Assassin, The
  • Atlit
  • Avengers: Age of Ultron
  • Beloved Sisters
  • Big Short, The
  • Black Mass
  • Black Sea
  • Black Souls
  • Breathe
  • Bridge of Spies
  • Brilliant Young Mind, A
  • Brooklyn
  • Carol
  • Child 44
  • Cinderella
  • Coming Home
  • Connection, The
  • Cop Car
  • Creed
  • Crimson Peak
  • Cupcakes
  • Danish Girl, The
  • Diary of a Teenage Girl
  • Dope
  • Eden
  • End of the Tour, The
  • Ex Machina
  • Faults
  • Final Girls, The
  • Focus
  • Furious 7
  • Gift, The
  • Goodnight Mommy
  • Grandma
  • Hateful Eight, The
  • He Never Died
  • Hitchcock/Truffaut
  • Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2, The
  • I'll See You In My Dreams
  • In the Name of My Daughter
  • In the Shadow of Women
  • Inside Out
  • Irrational Man
  • It Follows
  • Jurassic World
  • Kingsman: The Secret Service
  • Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter
  • L'Affaire SK1
  • Labyrinth of Lies
  • Last Hammer Blow, The
  • Legend
  • Little Accidents
  • Lobster, The
  • Loft, The
  • Love & Mercy
  • Macbeth
  • Mad Max: Fury Road
  • Mafia Only Kills in Summer, The
  • Magic Mike XXL
  • Man From Reno
  • Martian, The
  • Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
  • Minions
  • Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
  • Mistress America
  • Mommy
  • Most Violent Year, A
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  • My Friend Victoria
  • New Girlfriend, The
  • Night Before, The
  • Night Owls
  • Overnight, The
  • Paddington
  • Pawn Sacrifice
  • Peanuts Movie, The
  • Phoenix
  • Predestination
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  • Queen of Earth
  • Revenant, The
  • Room
  • Run All Night
  • Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The
  • Shaun the Sheep Movie
  • She's Funny That Way
  • Sicario
  • Son of a Gun
  • Song of the Sea
  • Southpaw
  • Spectre
  • Spotlight
  • Spy
  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens
  • Steve Jobs
  • Straight Outta Compton
  • Suffragette
  • Tangerine
  • Ted 2
  • Theeb
  • Timbuktu
  • Trainwreck
  • Tribe, The
  • True Story
  • Trumbo
  • Truth
  • Unfriended
  • Welcome to me
  • What Happened, Miss Simone?
  • What We Do in the Shadows
  • While We're Young
  • Winter Sleep
  • Wolf at the Door, A
  • Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet, The
  • Youth

Movie Reviews 2016

  • 10 Cloverfield Lane
  • 20th Century Women
  • Absolutely Fabulous: the Movie
  • Aferim!
  • Allied
  • Anthropoid
  • Aquarius
  • Arrival
  • Bigger Splash, A
  • Café Society
  • Captain America: Civil War
  • Carnage Park
  • Certain Women
  • Christine
  • Closet Monster
  • Commune, The
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  • Conjuring 2, The
  • De Palma
  • Deadpool
  • Deepwater Horizon
  • Demolition
  • Denial
  • Doctor Strange
  • Don't Breathe
  • Don't Think Twice
  • Elle
  • Embrace of the Serpent
  • Everybody Wants Some!!
  • Eye in the Sky
  • Fantastic Beasts…
  • Fences
  • Finding Dory
  • Finest Hours, The
  • Florence Foster Jenkins
  • Genius
  • Green Room
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  • Hello, My Name is Doris
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  • Zootopia

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  • Beguiled, The
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OBSERVATIONS ON SCREENWRITING/FILMMAKING

  • BAD TIMING: an essay on the passing of time in screenplays
  • DIRECTORS: CAN'T LIVE WITH THEM, CAN'T KILL THEM-Part I
  • DIRECTORS: CAN’T LIVE WITH THEM, CAN’T KILL THEM-Part II
  • EARLIERLY WRITTEN POSTS HAVE BEEN REMOVED TO BE PUBLISHED IN E-BOOK FORM. MORE INFORMATION IS IN THIS POST.
  • GOD DARNIT, MR. LAMARR, YOU USE YOUR TONGUE PRETTIER THAN A TWENTY DOLLAR WHORE: some reflections on how to write effective dialog
  • I OBJECTIVE: HOW TO DEVELOP CRITICAL TASTE IN FILM
  • OH MY GOD, THEY’RE CO-DEPENDENT: What’s More Important, Structure or Character, in Writing a Screenplay
  • ONE SIZE DOES NOT FIT ALL: Variations on Structural Engineering When It Comes To Screenplays, Parts I-V
  • STRUCTURALLY UNSOUND?: Some random thoughts on screenplay structure
  • THE FUTURE IS NOW: A PRETENTIOUS ESSAY FOR SCREENWRITERS and what they need to do to get their careers going
  • THE OBJECTIVITY OF SUBJECTIVITY: A Defense of Making “Best of…” Lists
  • THE RULES OF THE SCREENWRITING GAME: Truth or clichés in a couple of screenwriting tropes
  • YOU WANT ME TO READ WHAAAAAAT? A Snob’s Guide to Alternative Sources for Structure in Plotting for Screenplay and TV Writing, Part I: Stories of an Epic Nature
  • YOU WANT ME TO READ WHAAAAAAT? A Snob’s Guide to Alternative Sources for Structure in Plotting for Screenplay and TV Writing, Part II: Romantic Comedies
  • YOU WANT ME TO READ WHAAAAAAT? A Snob’s Guide to Alternative Sources for Structure in Plotting for Screenplay and TV Writing, Part III: Night Time Soaps
  • YOU WANT ME TO READ WHAAAAAAT? A Snob’s Guide to Alternative Sources for Structure in Plotting for Screenplay and TV Writing, Part V: Philosophical Depth

OTHER WRITING

  • Log Lines of Full Length Plays
  • Loglines for One Act Plays
  • Loglines of Monologue Plays
  • Poems in the Common Verse
  • POETRY

Podcasts

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RANDOM THOUGHTS

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RANTINGS AND RAVINGS OF A SCREENPLAY READER

  • EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SCREENWRITING CONTESTS* BUT WEREN’T AFRAID TO ASK
  • EXPOSITION: YOU CAN'T WRITE WITH IT, YOU CAN'T WRITE WITHOUT IT
  • Interview with Ann Kimbrough on Screenwriters Beat
  • Interview with Hilliard Guess on Screenwriters Rant Room
  • Interview with Jasper Cole on On the Set with Jasper Cole
  • Interview with Jesse Ikeman on Craft Truck
  • It's Time to Get Into the Spirit of the Zeitgeist
  • Loglines and Titles and Bears, Oh My!
  • RANTINGS AND RAVINGS… NOW PUBLISHED ON AMAZON
  • SUBTEXT: THAT PASSIVE/AGGRESSIVE FRIEND YOU HATE, BUT CAN’T DROP

SCREENPLAY CONSULTATION PHILOSOPHY, FEES and TESTIMONIALS

  • CONSULTATION PHILOSOPHY, FEES and TESTIMONIALS
  • Sample Coverage A
  • Sample Coverage B

SCREENWRITING

  • I KNOW
  • Loglines
  • Resume
  • The First 19 Pages of my Screenplay: The Dead Letter Office
  • The First Ten Pages of My Screenplay The Last Tree Standing Mote
  • They Only Come Out at Night

SUCH STUFF I AM. A NOVEL.

  • CHAPTER 1: I FLEE

THE HOWIES or best films of the year

  • 100 Greatest Films of All Time
  • 2017 Howies
  • 2019 Howies
  • A Complete of The Howies from 2008 to the present
  • The 2018 Howies
  • The Howies 2014
  • The Howies 2015
  • The Howies 2016
  • The Ten Best WTF Films of the New Millenium

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF SCREENWRITING

  • THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF SCREENWRITING

WHAT I LEARNED READING FOR CONTESTS THIS YEAR

  • COMMON CLICHES, STALE STORYLINES AND MAJOR MISTAKES
  • EARLIERLY WRITTEN POSTS HAVE BEEN REMOVED TO BE PUBLISHED IN E-BOOK FORM. MORE INFORMATION IS IN THIS POST.

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