where the wild things are – review

Where The Wild Things Are – a disappointing imbalance of dramatic and thematic intent.
I knew going in. I’d heard the reports, seen the reviews, and I knew.
“It’s awfully dark,” they’d say. “It’s not a kid’s movie.”
“But it’s a kid’s book,” I’d say. “It’s about a boy who imagines a land with friendly monsters. How can [...]

Julie Brown signs on to indie script “Rocket Summer”

It’s official… Miss Julie Brown is attached to the Rocket Summer project in the role of Mercy!
Rocket Summer is great, I love it and would love to be in it!
- Julie Brown
Julie and I worked together a few years ago on the film Fat Rose and Squeaky (where I was Art Director), and I couldn’t [...]

the auto-chronicled narrative conceit

The following is excerpted from my Paranormal Activity review… it’s a portion of the post that I find myself referring to and wanted the passage in its own post for reference.
THE LIMITATIONS OF AUTO-CHRONICLING

The “auto-chronicled narrative conceit” has its innate issues. It creates a single camera situation shooting in real time (Blair Witch circumvented this [...]

Positive feedback on the Faeries script feels so good

Although our screenplay “Faeries” didn’t win at Shriekfest, we still got to see the judge’s notes… those kind folks who put so much time into reading all those screenplays. We’re feeling pretty good about what they had to say…
A lively, unusual slasher movie that delivers plenty of gore, and introduces a new set of monsters [...]

birth of a genre? cowboys and aliens

“Cowboys and Aliens” to mix the sci-fi and western genres
Cowboys and Aliens is a film concept that’s been booted around the industry for a decade or more (since 1997 to be precise), and finally looks to be on the way to production with Robert Downey Jr. in front of the camera, and Ironman director John [...]