Golly! You could link and read all day and you still won’t get all the way through the pile of online treasures offered by Mystery Man on Film and his weekly (?) collection of Screenwriting News & Links. From WGA strike news to downloadable screenplays to behind-the-scenes insight, MMOF manages to cover a wide and [...]

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 [...]

I was pretty much going to leave Michael Bay and his idiotic Transformers movie alone for a while after getting it off my chest yesterday, but now I come across Transformers: The Abridged Script at the wonderfully acerbic The Editing Room blog where movies are boiled down to their most sarcastic essentials and reprinted in [...]

The relatively media-shy Writers Guild of America, working together with Premiere magazine, has announced the completion of their list of 101 Greatest Screenplays. In a third-act twist that even Jenny McCarthy might have seen coming, Casablanca, The Godfather, Chinatown, Citizen Kane and All About Eve are the list’s top five choices.
Hey, we’re all for giving [...]