matthew cooper script writer

Awaydays

1st May 2016 @matcoop 0

Six films to go, and I should finish this list of 100 films you must see (while avoiding the obvious) before I jet off on […]

Gregory’s Girl

23rd April 2016 @matcoop 0

Films about growing up and being an awkward teen seem to be the domain of US teen films in the 1980s. However, another film from […]

Halloween

9th April 2016 @matcoop 0

With only nine films to go, the task of writing about 100 films you must see (and avoiding the obvious ones) gets that much harder. […]

The Phantom Tollbooth

6th April 2016 @matcoop 0

In this series of 100 blogposts about films you must see I’ve written about comedy movies, dramatic films, horror films, action films and even the […]

The Deadly Spawn

2nd April 2016 @matcoop 0

The Deadly Spawn was made in the early 80s on a very low budget and is essentially a homemade horror movie. I believe the total […]

Se7en aka Seven

31st March 2016 @matcoop 0

Seven is one of the more obvious films to write about, but I just can’t resist talking about this film. It’s got one of the […]

Billy Bathgate

26th March 2016 @matcoop 0

As a script consultant, I’ve turned more than a few books into screenplays. Billy Bathgate from 1991 was a great award winning book, and most […]

Q & A

12th March 2016 @matcoop 0

I once did a three day condensed version of the BBC’s directors course. The BBC director who took the course liked to show clips of […]

Narc

11th March 2016 @matcoop 0

As a script consultant I tend to come across writers that fall into two camps. Those that can do excellent dialogue and those that often […]

Wall Street

8th March 2016 @matcoop 0

Being a professional script consultant sometimes means that you come across scripts that have great potential but that also have inherent problems. Indeed, I’ve written […]