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5 Screenwriting Takeaways: How ‘The Bear’ masters the specificity of kitchen life

July 25, 2022

Working in a restaurant is often a rite of passage for a creative. If you’ve never done booze or meat inventory in a commercial freezer are you even a screenwriter? That’s likely why so many have connected to The Bear. The specificity of the food ser...

5 Script Takeaways: 'Thor: Love and Thunder' Character Descriptions

July 15, 2022

In the first scene of Thor: Love and Thunder, the audience learns that after the death of his daughter, a mortal man discovers his God has seemingly turned his back on his people, if he even cared about them at all. Distraught and betrayed, this man ...

5 Screenwriting Takeaways: How ‘Wolf Hound’ finds a unique angle in the WWII genre

June 17, 2022

Every year, dozens of war-inspired movies hit the theaters and streamers. Some focus on battles like Midway, others look into real-life struggles of a soldier’s life such as Dog, and there are those that take a peek behind the scenes of the conflict ...

5 Screenwriting Takeaways: Adam Sandler’s ‘Hustle’ is full of heart

June 14, 2022

There’s a good chance you watched Hustle this past weekend or thought about it. The movie is getting huge viewership on Netflix and is reviewing super well. That’s no surprise because trends are showing people want feel-good content right now, and th...

5 Screenwriting Takeaways: ‘The Staircase’ keeps the audience on their toes

June 10, 2022

Limited true-crime series seem to be all the rage with new, high-profile stories hitting TV and streamers on a regular basis. These intriguing stranger-than-fiction stories of suburban murder offer audiences a glimpse into how families, investigators...

5 Screenwriting Takeaways: Alex Garland's 'Men' is more than meets the eye

June 8, 2022

Men is the latest outing from filmmaker Alex Garland (Ex Machina, The Beach). The reviews of the film have been all over the board and some less than kind, but Garland has absolutely made a film worth talking about. It’s also worth much more than a s...

5 Screenwriting Takeaways: 'Top Gun: Maverick'

June 3, 2022

After years of struggling to find the right formulas to create new content embracing the nostalgia for the 1980s, there now continues to be a flow of quality films and TV shows based on the intellectual property (IP) of 30-40 years ago. Over the last...

5 Screenwriting Takeaways: ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’

May 27, 2022

Photo courtesy of Marvel Studios Unlike any other movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness has mind-bending, reality-testing plots and twists, but it also takes on a different, more horror-like style. That’s...

5 Screenwriting Takeaways: 'The Flight Attendant' season two

May 23, 2022

Photo courtesy of HBO Max Season one of The Flight Attendant satisfyingly brought Cassie’s story to a conclusion while giving the show a great driving force. Cassie (Kaley Cuoco), who starts out a hot mess, awakens in bed next to a dead guy having no...