So I finished Netflix’s Into the Night and I can honestly say it’s the best TV show of the year so far. I haven’t encountered a show with this level of urgency in a long time. The closest I can think of is Netflix’s Black Summer. But what makes Into the Night so much better […]

This screenplay battle regarding the movie, “Yesterday,” has become an international story. Today, I review the original draft that led to the drama! Genre: Drama/Fantasy Premise: When a struggling musician realizes that he’s the only person on the planet to remember the Beatles, he starts passing the band’s songs off as his own. Only, they […]

Genre: Comedy/Horror Premise: (from Black List) Twenty years after a failed exorcism, a meek young woman becomes unlikely friends with the foul-mouthed demon that possessed her as a child. About: This one’s got a couple of big pillars holding it up. Buzzy indie production house A24 and none other than JJ’s Bad Robot. Megan Amran, […]

Is Into the Night the next Lost? Genre: Sci-Fi (TV show) Premise: (from IMDB) When a mysterious cosmic disaster strikes Earth, survivors on an overnight flight from Brussels race to find refuge and escape the sun’s rays. About: This show premiered on Netflix last week and I’d been hearing whispers that it was good. It’s […]

Today’s script is like an R-rated Princess Bride set in 16th Century Rome with a little Mission Impossible built in to boot. Genre: Action/Comedy/Period Logline: In 16th-century Rome, astronomical badass Nicolaus Copernicus seeks papal approval for his radical new theory about the universe, but after he’s framed for the Pope’s kidnapping, he’ll risk his life […]