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Not to be COMPLETELY outdone by Script Doctor Eric’s Best (and Worst) Movies of 2011 list, our very own TV Script Doctor Joey put together a decent-sized collection of films she saw in 2011. If you know Joey, you know that Harry Potter is number one. But the rest? Read on and see! -Eric Joey’s [...]
Awards season is my favorite time of year for three reasons: 1. Most of the best movies are released – I wish they would spread the “good” films more throughout the year, but now I sure look forward to the holidays. Ah, the holidays: eating food, seeing my family, and convincing my family to go [...]
From the start of 2011 to today, January 31, 2012, I kept a running list of all the new movies I watched, ranking them as the year progressed. This is that list. To make it on the list, a film had to be released in the U.S. in 2011, either in theaters or on DVD. [...]
As screenwriters, it’s always a good idea to keep up with the newly released films, if for no other reason, so you don’t write a movie that just came out in the theater. Plus, there is much to learn from watching movies (and reading screenplays and, ahem, actually writing). As I stated a few weeks [...]
I love Tuesdays in January. Waking up on Oscar Nominations Day (OND)* is like waking up on a Hollywood-created Christmas: A few pleasant surprises, a ton of predictable results, and some big dissappointments. For this year’s OND** the most pleasant surprise is Demián Bichir, whose subtle performance in A BETTER LIFE blew me away, and [...]