
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,...
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,...
No filmmaker pulls the rug from beneath you quite like Michael Sarnoski. The Milwaukee-born writer-director's two movies to date—2021’s Pig and brand new spectacle A...
We’ve all been there: you’re writing a new screenplay that you know, on paper, boasts a great story… but for some reason, that script just...
If Eric Roth has proved anything over his five decades in the film industry, it’s that there’s nothing he can’t write. Heartwarming comedy-dramas? No problem...
No conversation about the greatest horrors of the century so far is complete without mention of Spanish masterpiece The Orphanage. Directed by JA Bayona and...
What does Spider-Man have in common with the velociraptors of Jurassic Park, IMF super-spy Ethan Hunt, and the world’s most famous fedora-wearing archeologist, Indiana Jones?...
Hossein Amini fell in love with storytelling because, when his world turned upside down as a kid, creating his own worlds on the page gave...
Everything Everywhere All At Once, written and directed by The Daniels (aka Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert), is both a film about the unpredictable nature...
Pixar movies are invariably masterclasses in warm, inclusive storytelling and Turning Red is no different. The animation studio’s 25th feature, written by playwright Julia Cho...
Is there anything scarier than being stuck on a spaceship with a blood-thirsty Xenomorph hunting you? Jon Spaiths can think of one thing perhaps more...