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Remastered ‘The Last Days’ gets Netflix release and new witnesses to history
It feels like an important time for the re-release of The Last Days, an Oscar®-winning documentary about Hungarian Holocaust survivors. Steven Spielberg produced the project under the USC Shoah Foundation, which he founded in 1994. The Last Days was ...
Stealing Chaplin' is homage to both noir and madcap comedy
Stealing Chaplin is a fun homage to noir, crime comedy, and the general debauchery and strangeness that Vegas conjures. It’s inspired by a true story; back in 1978, two men dug up the corpse of Charlie Chaplin, convinced they’d be able to secure a co...
5 Screenwriting Takeaways: Netflix's 'Halston' embraces fashion, friendship and excess
Halston is the flashy new fashion bio series apparently taking many liberties with designer Roy Halston Frowick’s life. According to his niece, Lesley Frowick, no member of his family has endorsed the show. After watching the trailer, Frowick stresse...
5 Screenwriting Takeaways: HBO Max’s ‘Hacks’ is a darkly funny showbiz story
Hacks is a bit meta, but that’s okay. On the surface, it’s about a young female comedy writer who got cancelled on Twitter and is too stubborn to think she can still learn about comedy until she meets an older female stand-up who needs help remaining...
Finding You' feels like a classic destination romance with some fun twists
Finding You originally stemmed from the 2011 novel There You’ll Find Me by Jenny B. Jones. Director Brian Baugh fell in love with the book after one of the film's executive producers brought him the novel. Baugh said he and the EP were both super exc...
5 Screenwriting Takeaways: 'The Mitchells vs. the Machines' deals in the familiar while creating something wholly unique
The Mitchells vs the Machines has proved a hit for Netflix and is already being dubbed by some critics as the best animated feature of the year. So how did the movie by writer and first-time director Michael Rianda (Gravity Falls), along with co-writ...
The Water Man' creates unique mythology with heart
Director David Oyelowo and screenwriter Emma Needell bring '80s-feeling nostalgia and childhood mythology to screen in the crowd-pleasing and family friendly, The Water Man. The film is a feel-good movie with enough twists and turns to keep kids and ...
The Outside Story' is more than another break-up movie
At first glance, The Outside Story feels like a break-up movie. Charles (played by empathetic Brian Tyree Henry) works as an editor, cutting together in memoriam videos for people who aren’t dead yet. He is feeling sad not just because of the job, bu...
5 Screenwriting Takeaways: ‘Shiva Baby’ is an excellent study in suspense
A sugar daddy, his sugar baby, family politics, a newborn, and an ex-girlfriend walk into a shiva... That’s the loose premise of Shiva Baby; a thrill-ride of uncomfortable delight that started as a short film by writer-director Emily Seligman, availa...