Lukas and Charlie are back (sorry for the gap) and we interview director MICHAEL LEHMANN (Heathers, The Woman in the House Across the...

Jean-Luc Godard has died at the age of 91. The New York Times obituary has a pretty good rundown of his remarkable life and movies. I was...

Continued from yesterday. QUICK GUIDE: Secret of Screenwriting 1, 2 and 3. Misc. Tips 1, 2, 3, 4. Above: Reddit/screenwriting. Very...

QUICK GUIDE: Secret of Screenwriting 1, 2 and 3. Misc. Tips 1, 2, 3, 4. Some more notes from my own experience in this crazy field....

Above: a random Aliens page by the master, James Cameron. QUICK GUIDE: Secret of Screenwriting 1, 2 and 3. Misc. Tips 1, 2, 3, 4. ACTION...

Above: a page of Outland CD liner notes. See below for context... QUICK GUIDE: Secret of Screenwriting 1, 2 and 3. Misc. Tips 1, 2, 3, 4....

I had a column here about paying for reads on scripts in progress. I just deleted it because I felt it was too grumpy. Sorry folks! But I...

“There’s no happiness in showbiz. There’s only relief.” My friend said that to me, and I’m pretty sure he got it from somewhere else, but...

Recently I posted an essay about the appeal of Star Trek. I’m glad it was generally well received. At the time, I got a question—how...

I remember an incident in gym class some time in elementary school. Good ol’ West Tisbury Elementary—and Pat Schofield, a nice woman who...

I was barely even aware that the new Game of Thrones prequel was coming out already. I watched the premiere of House of the Dragon last...

Above is a random page—and I mean random, I just went to anyplace in the pdf—of Tony Gilroy’s script to The Bourne Supremacy. I DID NOT...

QUICK GUIDE: Secret of Screenwriting 1, 2 and 3. Misc. Tips 1, 2, 3, 4. When we left off, we were talking about coming up with a great...

QUICK GUIDE: Secret of Screenwriting 1, 2 and 3. Misc. Tips 1, 2, 3, 4. THE ACTUAL METHOD (TO WRITING AN UNDENIABLE SCREENPLAY) If you...

QUICK GUIDE: Secret of Screenwriting 1, 2 and 3. Misc. Tips 1, 2, 3, 4. I am a writer and filmmaker who has spent a lot of time and money...

This is sort of funny. My wife and I have been watching Outlander. We affectionately call it “Hunky and Chickie.” Good show. There seems...

This week Charlie and I talked to Ashley Scott Meyers, whose website is called SellingYourScreenplay.com. Guess what it’s about! He...

Charlie Vignola and I are continuing our YouTube interview series—which I know I need to get set up as an audio-only podcast, forgive me....

Above: A featured fish—it neither swims nor flies! Yes, there is a secret to loglines, and it is this: have your logline express a...

We all read the bizarre news yesterday that Warner Bros. has decided to completely scrap a nearly finished Batgirl film that cost some...