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Showing posts with label j.j. abrams. Show all posts
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Friday, December 20, 2019

THE RISE OF SKYWALKER tries to give us everything we want, not everything we need

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So just so everyone's clear here - this is NOT a spoiler free review. I'm going to be reacting to the biggest surprises of THE RISE ...
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Monday, April 23, 2018

Breaking down the pilot of ALIAS

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A while back I did a series of live-tweets of pilot episodes, with the intent of breaking these pilots down and showing the elements that ar...
Monday, December 21, 2015

A spoiler-filled reflection on STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS

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Obligatory warning - this post is going to discuss all the major plot points from THE FORCE AWAKENS. This is your spoiler warning right here...
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Friday, December 18, 2015

A spoiler-free review of THE FORCE AWAKENS

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A note about this review - I have endeavored to keep this as spoiler-free as possible. I'll have another post next week dealing with mor...
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Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Interview with film and TV writer Jeffrey Lieber - Part 3: The early genesis of Lost

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Parts 1 and 2 - How did you get an agent? and First sales and going into TV. If you look up Jeff Lieber's credits, it will probably le...
Monday, May 20, 2013

How STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS gives us the Kirk we deserve

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It's no accident that the opening sequence of Star Trek Into Darkness involves Captain Kirk doing something he's done time and agai...
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Thursday, May 16, 2013

An open letter to the assholes who can't stop spoiling STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS

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Warning to all who venture into the comments - despite this post explicitly indicating a desire for people to stop spoiling the film, intern...
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Bitter embarrasses himself begging Steven Spielberg for a job via YouTube

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It's been a while since we had a new video on this site, and what better way to kick things off with a fad that's sweeping the natio...
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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Webshow - "I hate flash-forward openings!"

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The puppet is back again, this time ranting about one of those thing that I almost always hate to see in the early pages of a script.
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Monday, August 20, 2012

Free advice for the makers of the "Female Expendables"

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Last Friday it was announced that producer Adi Shankar has hired Dutch Southern to write a script that's being described as a "Fema...
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Thursday, July 26, 2012

Walk before you run

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Hina asks: "Say you come up with a highly stylized world that has genuine merchandising capacity, is highly commercial and possesses...
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Thursday, February 16, 2012

Revenge - when it's okay to show us the climax first

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Major spoilers for last night's Revenge in this entry, so if it's still on your DVR, you're going to want to skip this. Figure...
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Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Plot holes vs. nitpicks - Ferris Bueller's dog and weak screenwriting

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UPDATE: Again, I swear Scott and I don't plan these sort of tag-team bits (except for when we do) but he's got a GITS post today on ...
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Thursday, January 14, 2010

Using time travel - lessons from J.J. Abrams' Star Trek

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In two earlier posts this week, we've covered the most basic approaches to time travel, so why not confuse the hell out of everyone and ...
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