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Screen Writing Archive
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Babylon A.D.
Posted on September 12, 2008 | 4 CommentsI popped along to see the new Vin Diesel film this week – Babylon A.D., a futuristic thriller. I was expecting a bit of decent crap; and instead was blown... -
TX: It Came From Outer Space
Posted on August 29, 2008 | 2 CommentsThis week has turned into something of a perfect storm for me – one of those freak moments when many events coincide to create a whole larger than the parts... -
Watchmen in Peril
Posted on August 19, 2008 | No CommentsBrian Ruckley has written a delightful blog featuring the Bart Simpson blackboard about the forthcoming movie version of the classic graphic novel The Watchmen. Like Brian and many others, I... -
On Movies to Watch
Posted on August 4, 2008 | No CommentsI’ve just come across an interesting new site, recommended by SF Crowsnest; it’s called SF Diplomat and it has some very good in depth articles on SF and movies. And... -
On the Dark Knight
Posted on August 1, 2008 | No CommentsWas it worth the wait? Does it justify the hype? Hell yes! I loved Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight (which as well as directing, he co-wrote with his brother Jonathan). ... -
On Albion
Posted on July 25, 2008 | 2 CommentsI recently read Albion, the graphic novel by Alan & Leah Moore about the long-forgotten superheroes of British comics – characters like the Spider, and the Claw, and Captain Hurricane,... -
On Iron Man
Posted on June 10, 2008 | No CommentsI’ve just seen the movie of Iron Man, which is just as good as everyone told me it was. Jon Favreau, the director, is an actor who did a wonderful... -
All Cannes-ed Out
Posted on May 25, 2008 | No CommentsI’m now back in the real world, after 5 days in Cannes, networking, partying and, well, more networking, and more partying. I’m not in fact the world’s greatest networker, but... -
On Going to the Cannes Film Festival
Posted on May 15, 2008 | No CommentsLast year many of my friends went to the Cannes Film Festival – lucky devils – while I stayed behind. This year, I’m glad to say, luck is on my... -
Festivals Galore
Posted on March 19, 2008 | 3 CommentsI’m off to Eastercon this weekend, for what promises to be a fabulous convention. Two of my favourite writers – Neil Gaiman and Tanith Lee – are Guests of Honour... -
On Heroes
Posted on March 9, 2008 | 4 CommentsI recently attended the last in this year’s SPARKS workshops up in Yorkshire. It’s been six months of intensive work with 3 bunches of writers. My lot were developing TV... -
On Jumper
Posted on March 5, 2008 | 2 CommentsGreat film! See it. Imagine if you could travel anywhere, whenever you wanted. It’s that simple really. A science fiction extrapolation of the back-packer’s wanderlust. You can travel to London,... -
On Cloverfield
Posted on February 15, 2008 | No CommentsWas the hype worth it? Is Cloverfield as scary as its trailer? (I was blown away when I first saw those wild hand-held camera images culminating in the head of the... -
On I Am Legend
Posted on January 10, 2008 | 9 CommentsI saw I Am Legend last night. The reviews have been mixed, and I’ve read comments criticising the implausibility of the premise – if Will Smith is the only person... -
On Beowulf, 3D
Posted on November 19, 2007 | 1 CommentMany years ago I studied Anglo Saxon as a module at University, and could actually read and speak a few snippets of that of that long dead, resonant, rhythmic, repetitive, blood-drenched-battle... -
On the Writers’ Strike
Posted on November 16, 2007 | No CommentsThe Writers Guild of America are currently on strike…in Britain, there are many screenwriters so starved of work that the idea of going on strike actually seems comical. And very... -
More on Imaginary Worlds
Posted on November 2, 2007 | 3 CommentsLast night’s Writer’s Guild forum on fantasy and science fiction writing proved a great success. We had a full house of interested writers, many of them non-Guild members (there was... -
Q & A
Posted on October 30, 2007 | 2 CommentsI recently did a Q & A for the Book Swede – great fun. If you fancy reading it, then click here. -
On Hebden Bridge
Posted on October 19, 2007 | No CommentsI spent last weekend in Hebden Bridge, a startlingly beautiful town in Yorkshire with mill chimneys and clock towers and horribly, horribly steep hills. I was teaching on a workshop... -
More Action Women
Posted on September 27, 2007 | No CommentsI wrote a little while ago about why women are still getting short-changed in action movies…and now to competely confute and contradict me, along come two movies with female action...