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 […]
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 […]
Becoming a better fiction writer by studying 100 movies, 50 screenplays, and 25 books in 2020. It’s hard to distill a single writing lesson from a novel as beloved and complex as Little Women (yes, children’s literature is complex). Further complicating the task is the need to also write about the 2019 film adaptation by Greta […]
