Tag: screenplay

The Writers Guild of America have announced their nominees for 2018. Incredibly, The Favourite was completely shut out. I kid of course, because of the…

The appetiser with Gosford Park is carving out an immediate set of finely-tuned, immaculately-drawn characters. Academy Award winner Julian Fellowes ought to still be held…

This week at Filmotomy we are celebrating Paul Thomas Anderson and the brilliant films he’s made over the last 20 years. I myself have been…

The battle of the Oscars an astonishing 21 years ago might tell us just how much the awards race has changed. I mean, heading into…

While those of us Oscar predictors are scrambling our brains trying to figure out what will win Best Picture, another category that we still can’t…

We’ve all seen Christopher Nolan’s second feature Memento – at least you better had. Following his no-budget debut named, well, Following, Nolan teamed up with…

Just when we perhaps thought that Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri was slipping down the ranks somewhat in the awards race, the film goes and picks…

There were some expected inclusions like Get Out, Lady Bird, Call Me By Your Name, and The Shape Of Water. But there were also some slight…

With the weight of Dunkirk‘s award season run seemingly on the shoulders of Christopher Nolan as Best Director, I wanted to bring his chances for…

It occurred to me while watching ADDIcted, written and directed by Dan Jenski, that there are not many films these days that deal with the…

I knew a little about the true story of Christa Worthington, a fashion writer who was involved in a coastal affair, before being brutally murdered….

For this exercise, I’m choosing films where the tone, pace and look are intended to enhance the spirit to the person being portrayed. They have the feel of a time or place as well as convey the essence the subject, be it crazy, pathetic, heroic, or creative. Based on artistic merit of the film and NOT the person portrayed –or doing the portraying, although most of these performances are career highs – here are ten biopics worthy of acclaim. Five for him and five for her. And filmmakers – please take a chance and give us another classic biopic of a woman. 1928 was oh-so-long ago. And make certain a woman will direct it, as well. Thanks

To begin with I think The Social Network is a masterpiece. It’s a film that I really love, and ever since I first saw it…

  One of the benefits of film festivals like NZIFF is that cinephiles have the opportunity to sample some very different fare from what is…