Looking forward to 2018
We’re approaching New Year’s Eve and I thought I’d pen a little blogpost looking back at 2017. As a script writer for hire I’ve had more […]
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Jim and Andy: The Great Beyond (2017)
You’ve got to love a bit of method actor madness, and Jim and Andy: The Great Beyond is a great new documentary that looks at […]
The Ice Harvest
With Christmas just around the corner my thoughts turn to The Ice Harvest from 2005. When I saw this the first time I wasn’t entirely […]
White of the Eye (1987)
Donald Cammell had a bit of a messed up career, and an awful death (he shot himself, but lived for a further 45 minutes […]
Characters
As a Script Consultant UK I see a lot of scripts with underwritten characters. Writers often think the problems with their script start and end […]
Working on projects in the USA
As a UK script consultant I’m really busy at the moment with two very interesting (and fun) projects. Both scripts I’m working on (or about […]
Something Wild
Jonathan Demme’s Something Wild from 1986 is one of the best movies of the 1980s. Demme died recently and was working pretty much up to […]
Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia
Sam Peckinpah’s Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia was made in 1974 – the year I was born. It’s hard to imagine now how […]
Horror I have been watching
The Church (1989) is an enjoyable retro horror from the pen of the great Dario Argento, it’s recently been rereleased on glorious BluRay that really […]
Spending three weeks in the 90s
I’ve been a script writer for hire since the 1990s. My first short film was shown on Channel 4 in 1994; I was commissioned by […]