To anyone wishing to break into the screenwriting business, Chad and Carey Hayes have one major piece of advice: READ SCRIPTS! Find something you like and identify with, and figure out why it works
Darwin's saving grace is that it embeds the political arguments about right-to-die within a personal story.
I have a confession to make: I’m not generally fond of yarn bombing. But the film Yarn, featuring four fiber artists and narrated by Barbara Kingsolver, is making me rethink that stance.
From Here to Eternity is a bit of a soap-opera, but at its center is a character who has to stand firm in the face of immense social pressure--pressure that escalates to physical torture and threatens not only his peace of mind, but his life.
In short, you might buy the DVD because you want to see some fights scenes, but you get treated to some character depth too.
There's a pervasive sameness to movies these days. Sure there are pockets of exception: festivals and awards season. Summer is starting earlier and earlier. May is not even over and we've already had three comic book movies, with a fourth opening next week. In such a climate, live theater offers an increasingly attractive alternative. And given that more and more movie theaters are raising prices and studios are needlessly rendering two-star action movies into 3D in order to charge a premium, the cost differential isn't always that great.
"For me," he said, "it is above all a moral standpoint from which to view the world. Afterwards it becomes an aesthetic standpoint, but the point of departure is definitely moral."
A formula film about mathematical geniuses is buoyed by strong performances from Dev Patel and Jeremy Irons.
Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonze get mentioned a lot in reviews of Stranger Than Fiction, particularly considering they had nothing to do with it.
The world of Henry Gamble's Birthday Party is not one I've ever lived in, but it is one I've caught enough glimpses of the believe exists in some only slightly less grotesque form.
