Currently one of the best writers in town, Taylor Sheridan is back with another spec that’s expected to start a major franchise. Genre: ACTION/CRIME Premise: A former delta force operator is given a unique opportunity by the DEA to take down drug dealers without any oversight. About: Can life get any better for Tyler Sheridan? […]

And if so, what can horror writers in 2019 learn from it? It’s the week of Halloween!!! Woooo-hooo. Any excuse to buy bags of Reeses Peanut Butter Cups is okay by me. This most spooky of spooky holidays got me thinking about the horror genre, specifically what makes a movie scary. There aren’t a whole […]

Genre: Creature Horror Premise: Trapped in a mountain resort by a parasitic fungus that transforms its victims into deadly hosts, a timid CDC epidemiologist must learn to lead the group of mismatched survivors to escape this primordial terror. Why You Should Read: After my last entry on the site, “The Crooked Tree,” was selected for […]

I was SO BORED by yesterday’s script that I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it. Not just about how bad the script was. But the bigger question of: what is it that makes a script boring in the first place? If we could figure that out, we’d all be millionaires. Because the large […]

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. This is the single most important Star Wars trailer of all time. The Star Wars brand was destroyed in the hands of Rian Johnson. Everyone knows it now. Only a few Twitter users on an island try to make the case that it “wasn’t that bad.” […]