Dying Is Easy. Comedy Is Hard.

I have completed a draft of the “beat sheet” for the unnamed project I’m creating for Glass Cage Productions. It took the entire week I scheduled, and now I understand why so many of my other writing projects failed, or were mired in mediocrity. This was an arduous task. It surprised me because I thought [...]

I kept a browser tab open to Trilane.com for the past year, specifically to their screenplay format reference. I have books, but it’s simpler, when writing online, to use online reference. It seemed like I needed it every day; I didn’t, but it seemed that way. I finally read their front page and, by gosh, [...]

This freeze frame video is punch the world in the face awesome. I think only a FakeGrimlock could be more awesome about it. Watch it.

I think it’d be very cool if “Broad Comedies” referred to a movie with dames and chicks in the cast, but broad refers to the thematic style of humor employed in the storytelling. In fact, it means pretty much any joke, gag, or tom-foolery may be used, so be aware. This is a list of [...]

“Our Idiot Brother” is a movie chock-full of good looking people. I went to see it, in spite of a mediocre review by the local paper, because Paul Rudd is funny, and Zooey Deschanel is beautiful and funny, and Elizabeth Banks is beautiful and funny, and Rashida Jones et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. You [...]

I recently saw “30 Minutes or Less” and what I really liked were the performances. I have been a mad Fred Ward fan ever since “Miami Blues”, and that movie is a good gauge of what “30 Minutes or Less” probably aspired to be. Like “Miami Blues”, “30 Minutes or Less” is anchored by strong [...]

Nothing earth shattering here, but a line to a fine online resource about formatting a screenplay. Trilane.com makes their screenplay formatting reference available here. I have read several books on the subject, and read a number of screenplays, but I still falter every once in a while, and my brain won’t let it go until [...]

I saw Bridesmaids and laughed a lot. It is chock full of funny bits. Ilt opens with fornicating and it was, by far, funnier fornicating than the fornicating in MacGruber. The vomiting was somewhere between “Animal House” and “The Exorcist”.  And the defecating scenes was funnier than the poop-in-your-pants scene in the “Sex and the [...]

“Source Code” was a technology-based movie that successfully ducks every technical aspect of how the laws of nature were manipulated for the good of the story. And that’s just fine with me. I think “The Matrix” lost its soul in trying to explain it in the sequels. “Source Code” was closer to “Groundhog Day”, and [...]