
Strange Darling writer-director J.T. Mollner loves an early twist. Why wait till the end of the movie to pull the rug out from underneath your...
Al Horner is a London-based journalist, screenwriter and presenter. His work has appeared in The Guardian, Empire Magazine, GQ, BBC, Little White Lies, TIME Magazine and more.
Strange Darling writer-director J.T. Mollner loves an early twist. Why wait till the end of the movie to pull the rug out from underneath your...
Ever gone through a life event that was completely different from how it’s depicted in the movies? Your next great idea for a screenplay might...
Is your latest screenplay being held back by a protagonist who’s too perfect? That was the case for Bob Gale, writer of the Back To...
Over the last decade, an unanswerable question has sparked ferocious debate not just in Hollywood, but throughout literature and other creative disciplines: Is it OK...
This summer marks 20 years since The Terminal, a heartwarming drama about an Eastern European man stuck in New York's John F. Kennedy Airport following...
If the protagonist of your latest screenplay is feeling a little one-dimensional, here’s a trick that might lend them some more intrigue: give them a...
A theatrical round of applause please, readers, for a microgenre of cinema we don’t talk about often: films about the staging of a play. In...
Searching for your next great idea for a screenplay? Try taking a movie or TV series you love and throwing it into a completely different...
Leslye Headland, writer of 'The Acolyte' has a saying she finds useful when embarking upon a new screenplay: “The first draft is a dangerous neighborhood....
The simpler your character’s motivation, the more complex the plot around them can be. That’s the storytelling philosophy that helped legendary screenwriter Eric Roth pen,...