Release: 2018 Starring: Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant Directed by: Marielle Heller Screenplay by: Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty Spoilers? Fer shure. The film is based on a true story, adapted from Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger, by Lee Israel. The protagonist (let’s not call her a hero) is a […]
Spoilers? Kinda sorta. Please go watch the movie. This humorous twist on a whodunit makes me hungry for the prospect of a franchise. The movie, written and directed by Rian Johnson, centers around the death of eccentric mystery novelist Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer). His surviving family members, all entitled, betray one another to varying degrees […]
Becoming a better storyteller by studying 100 movies, 50 screenplays, and 25 books in 2020. The next time I embark on a major project like this, I won’t start a key segment of it with the most complicated example of the form. Lady Bird‘s script is so complex and dense with wonderful examples of what to […]
