100 Movies: #6, Lady Bird

100 Movies: #6, Lady Bird

Becoming a better storyteller by studying 100 movies, 50 screenplays, and 25 books in 2020. To borrow the line from the Joni Mitchell song, I could drink a case of this movie, and I would still be on my feet. It’s charming and irreverent and smart and funny and bittersweet and poignant and perfect. Release: 2017 […]

100 Movies: #5, The Fugitive

100 Movies: #5, The Fugitive

Becoming a better storyteller by studying 100 movies, 50 screenplays, and 25 books in 2020. If I had to pick ten movies to take with me to a desert island (which of course would have electricity and all modern A/V comforts), this would be on the list. Release: 1993 Director: Andrew Davis Starring: Harrison Ford, […]

100 Movies: #3, The Last Jedi

100 Movies: #3, The Last Jedi

Becoming a better storyteller by studying 100 movies, 50 screenplays, and 25 books in 2020. Everyone in my house wanted to see The Rise of Skywalker, out in theaters now. Having forgotten everything that happened in the previous story apart from Mark Hamill sitting on a rock somewhere off the coast of Scotland, it seemed a […]