One of my favorite movies from Quentin Tarantino has to be “Inglourious Basterds”. It was released almost 10 years ago (!!!) and still feels just as fresh today as it did back then. For me, it’s probably his best written screenplay (although “Pulp Fiction” still remains as my favorite Tarantino flick). There is sooo much to dive into…

  Hey everyone! Like many of you, I went to see “The Last Jedi” and really really liked it! In fact, it’s my favorite Star Wars movie since “The Empire Strikes Back”. I loved how it defied expectations, introduced so many new elements and pushed the older elements in new directions. From a writing standpoint, the movie is…

As I’m sure many of you know, there’s a new movie opening up this weekend that’s not called “Ferdinand”. Yes, I’m referring to “The Last Jedi”, which is Episode 8/VIII in the main Star Wars line of movies. It’s kind of a big deal and I probably don’t have to explain what it is. In celebration of…

  Welcome to another video in the Write Like series! Since yesterday saw the arrival of the first trailer for “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom”, I thought we would celebrate by releasing a video lesson from the first “Jurassic World” movie. In this lesson, I talk about a tactic the writers use to make us scared…

Justice League was the culmination of several of DC’s movies that led into their big team-up. We had already seen Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman on the big screen but now we got to get a great look at Aquaman, the Flash and Cyborg. These last three characters were essentially introduced in this film, which is…

Thor: Ragnarok has been smashing the box office all around the world for several weeks now. I really loved the film and found that it exceeded my already-high expectations. In fact, I think just about every one of my friends loved it after watching it. It’s a fun, fast ride at the theater and I can’t…

Hey everyone! Fine day today, right? Maybe? Hopefully? I think it is (so far at least). A while back, I launched the first screenwriting course of my Write Like series, which focused on the Jurassic World movie. The idea is to break down movies to find out how the writing contributed to the movie’s success…

Hi everyone! I have been making films and screenwriting for a long time. A LONG time. Recently, I figured I could help turn my experience into courses on screenwriting. Perhaps other writers out there can enroll in this course and learn things I wish I knew years ago. But I didn’t want to make “just…