Kurt Vonnegut wrote some great stories, some which bored me to tears in college as professors pleaded that it was the best stuff ever. While…
This “found footage” / buddy teen / superhero origins Chronicle movie effectively packages the issues of friendship, identity, and personal responsibility into an entertaining thrill-ride. …
I wanted to like Blue Like Jazz (BLJ). I want to like every movie I pay to see, and since so many Christians lose their…
While not among the best of the Pixar canon, Brave is a tightly (and familiarly) structured work that panders to the worst Scottish stereotypes while…
(UPDATED from 2005)… The buzz is out: there’s a Christian movie market, and Hollywood is selling. Many are now seeking to cash in on the…
In the wake of the original Invisible Children video, I wrote a thriller called Rock Star Rescue, the story of Ugandan children who kidnap a…
As of this post, Act of Valor, the movie about Seal Team 7 tracking down Jihadi-terrorists, has a Rotten Tomato score of 29%. Comparatively, Green…
Did you see it? I mean is was… Wow! And like Loki was eww… While Nick Fury was like hmmm… “Bring me everyone” But Thor…
Yup, another technology blog. And it’s not that I’m complaining about technology. It’s just that creating a comprehensive arena for your characters to live in…
Secret Service guy is it? What are the stakes? Who cares? While Snow’s awaiting “status” in the lock up, the President’s daughter Emilie enters with…
Yes. Whew, that was easy. Wait, are we talking about the phrase, or that storytelling crutch and addiction I talked about the other day? I’ve…
Based on private comments in response to my Courageous analysis, it may be necessary to define the term “Jesus-porn.” Let me say at the outset,…
The latest, and most watchable of the Sherwood Baptist’s movies, revolves around men desiring to be better fathers. It’s not a great film, but it…
Why am I blogging this? This isn’t about screenwriting! But it is. We imagine, and it becomes reality… Some day. Sometimes things exist only in…
I love spy movies. I can’t understand why anyone wouldn’t. And this is John le Carré! The spy master’s big story on the big screen.…