2017 – Kodak Super 8
The year 2016 will go down as sad one for many people, with the deaths of many much loved celebrities, Brexit, the continuing Tory rule […]
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Eyes Wide Shut
As a script writer for hire I’m a big fan of Stanley Kubrick, I’ve read all the books, watched all the films multiple times and […]
The Monster Squad
Fred Dekker’s The Monster Squad from 1987 is hard to get hold of now. I eventually got my hands a Far Eastern copy and decided […]
The Way Back
Peter Weir’s The Way Back is good movie to have handy for Christmas. It’s a tough and long adventure movie about fugitives escaping from the […]
Work in progress
I’ve written briefly about what I’m working on at the moment, as a script writer for hire I get all kinds of jobs coming in, […]
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
As I’m on 50s sci-fi kick, let’s have a quick chat about Invasion of the Body Snatchers – directed by Don Siegel with panache, pace […]
20 Million Miles to Earth
Now we’re getting to real genius, despite the film business being filled with very, very clever people (and some real bozos) real genius is hard […]
The Hunger
Tony Scott’s The Hunger from 1983 is a stylish and delicious vampire tale that’s vastly underrated. Like his brother Ridley, the late Tony Scott was […]
In the Heat of the Night
In the Heat of the Night from 1967 is an Oscar winning film from director Norman Jewison. A murder mystery with a subplot about racial […]
The Day of the Jackal
As a script writer for hire I spend a fair amount of time doing different things, beyond actually writing scripts. One of these is research; […]