100 movies in 2020: # 14, Inception Everybody makes a big fuss about Christopher Nolan. I’m the last person alive who hasn’t seen the Dark Knight films (see my earlier posts about superhero flicks in general) so I didn’t know anything about Nolan other than a serious cult attends him. I’m generally skeptical whenever a […]
As with The Last Jedi, I hoped to like this movie. Also as with The Last Jedi, Skywalker thwarted those hopes. Release: 2019 Director: J. J. Abrams Starring: Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, John Boyega, etc. Screenplay: Chris Terrio, J. J. Abrams Spoilers? None. I’ll stop just short of saying there’s no […]
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 […]
