Someone once said that the key to becoming successful in life is mastering the ability to delay instant gratification for long-term benefit. In other words, if someone handed you 100 bucks, would you spend it all right now? Buy that video game you’ve been jonezing to play? Celebrate with a wild night out of drinking? […]

Genre: Drama/Comedy Premise: (from Black List) An autistic kid tries to do normal college things — making friends, figuring out if girls like him, getting over his mom’s death — while seeing life in his own “musical” way. About: Today’s script finished on last year’s Black List. Augustus Schiff grew up in Los Angeles, went […]

Genre: Action/Sci-Fi/Period Premise: When an alien predator arrives on earth in 1719, it sets its sights on the great warriors of the Comanche nation, only to learn that one of them, a young woman, might be more than he can handle. About: This movie comes from Dan Trachtenberg, who I’ve been a fan of all […]

Genre: Action/Crime/Comedy Premise: An assassin gets stuck on a Japanese bullet train with several other assassins, all of whom get mixed up in an intense plan by an evil mastermind named The White Death who’s determined to kill them all. About: The David Leitch directed Brad Pitt starrer, Bullet Train (!) racked up 30 million […]

I’m not going to lie. I’m fascinated by Jordan Peele’s “Nope.” Now that I’ve had some time to reflect on the film, I better appreciate what Peele has done. He swung for the fences in an industry that locks you in a batting cage. There’s something big and crazy and mystical about this movie that […]