Why, spicy pretzel balls, of course!
So hi there. I know I’ve been gone from these parts for a while, but I figured I might squeeze in some time here and there to post movie items of interest. For now, these will likely just be pictures, videos and links with little to no commentary. Mostly. Stay [...]

I am, and forever will be, a shameless fanboy dork when it comes to the first two Terminator movies. They signify much of what’s great about movie-making, representing a confident and dynamic blend of story, character, action, special effects, drama – truly all of the stuff that makes movies so transporting. And it’s easy to [...]

Picking up from yesterday, I’m contributing to the movie exposition study currently ongoing over at the fine screenwriting blog Mystery Man on Film all this month. Mystery Man has issued a challenge to his readers to submit examples from movies of 1) bad exposition, 2) good non-verbal exposition and 3) good verbal exposition. I’ve already [...]

The splendid screenwriting blog Mystery Man on Film is hosting a study of movie exposition – or “the plot dump” as he delightfully calls it – all this month. That “dump”, of course, is the part of the movie in which characters have to tell us exactly what’s going on and thereby set up the [...]