The Handmaid’s Tale was high concept. It’s premise especially intriguing. Especially to someone with a close circle of proactive feminists who all had something to say about it. But that wasn’t what I was thinking when I stood in Waterstones contemplating my purchase. At the time Hulu had just announced a TV adaptation of The […]
Read More Adapting for Screen – The Handmaid’s Tale, Part 1We all have that friend who likes to get things done as quickly and efficiently as possible. Instead of cutting corners they’re cutting to the core of the problem. That friend is probably a screenwriter. Or, at least, they should be. If you’re anything like me, when you come to write a screenplay your head […]
Read More How to Efficiently Establish Character – Don’t BreatheSpoilers ahead. No seriously don’t read on if you’d rather be surprised. Or unless you actually listen to the rabid fan base who say it’s shit. The critics are right for once. Shockingly! Oh wait, wasn’t that paragraph meant to be a simple disclaimer? Sorry. Ahem. Major Spoilers Ahead. Now let’s jump onto something more […]
Read More What’s Wrong With Star Wars: The Last Jedi? Answer: The FansWarning: Spoilers (River Song voice) Yesterday I saw Blade Runner 2049 with my Dad. He bought a senior ticket, one and a half quid off. Apparently there are benefits to being sixty. We went to an IMAX screening and its aim of being an EXPERIENCE are wholeheartedly achieved. Finally, a cinema EXPERIENCE that lives up to […]
Read More Do Androids Eat Electric Sheep? Who Cares, Blade Runner 2049 is BrilliantIt was all too much. My body produced an overcharge of geek endorphins and to avoid betraying my cool exterior, I simply looked away and composed myself. That was just the first ten seconds. The trailer for the next X-Files season was released during the cast and crew panel at last weeks New York Comic […]
Read More The X-Files Season 11 Trailer: A J.D. ReactionIsn’t it great how easy it is to forget our past mistakes? No matter how spectacular our pitiful, brainless screw ups and questionable judgement that results in years of bitterness and regret are, we can simply pluck it out of existence and move forward with our past errors fluttering away in some alternative universe. Isn’t […]
Read More Scrap That! Start Over: Rebooting Halloween and The TerminatorThe first I ever heard of Prevenge was when attending a talk with Alice Lowe at the York Aesthetica Film Festival last November. While discussing her body of work, she went on to talk about her latest project that was going around the festival circuit. If the premise of a pregnant woman who goes on […]
Read More Prevenge ReviewDexter Morgan might just be the world’s most-loved serial killer; blood-spatter analyst for Miami Metro Homicide by day, and a killer by night – but only a killer of killers. What makes Dexter so fascinatingly different is that he has a code to follow for his victims – they must be, without a doubt, murderers […]
Read More Dexter Morgan: The Moral and Well-Loved Serial KillerIt’s hard to believe that Buffy the Vampire Slayer started 20 Years ago today. The brainchild of Joss Whedon, after the mediocre original movie in 1992, it must have been difficult for any of the cast and crew to imagine just how much of a phenomenon it would become. I have many happy memories of […]
Read More Buffy at 20: 5 Ways It Impacted Popular CultureChoo! Choo! So, Prime Suspect is now the latest to get off the Nostalgia Train. To be fair a prequel to one of the best and most influential crime dramas in history does sound intriguing on paper. Jane Tennison is an icon, and with Lynda La Plante having returned to the world with a prequel […]
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The Writer's Block 