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Who is John Galt?

In the midst of my absence last month, I managed to squeeze in some time to read Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. It was...

posted on: Mar 2, 2010 | author: Mystery Man

If Shakespeare were writing screenplays now, he’d be laughed out of Hollywood. Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet were...

posted on: Feb 27, 2010 | author: Devin Watson

Let me get on my Project Gutenberg soapbox. One of the most under-appreciated opportunities for aspiring...

posted on: Feb 22, 2010 | author: Mystery Man

What is the motivation for our films? How does the Australian film industry maintain its identity in this new age of...

posted on: Feb 19, 2010 | author: Karen Pearlman

On the one hand there are the followers of Syd Field who speak of ‘Inciting Incident’. Then there are the...

posted on: Feb 16, 2010 | author: Karel Segers

I saw Barefoot in the Park the other night. It was okay. But something interesting happened in the Third Act that...

posted on: Feb 15, 2010 | author: Mystery Man

Last Tuesday was Australia Day, so that was my excuse for not publishing my own weekly blog post. This week I was...

posted on: Feb 2, 2010 | author: Karel Segers

I’ve been having some revolutionary thoughts lately. And these are beyond the ordinary musings of a screenwriter,...

posted on: Feb 1, 2010 | author: Mystery Man