What’s happening here?? A few of you e-mailed me after yesterday’s review asking about this “Noise” thing. What the hell is noise, Carson? Well my dear reader, let me do my best to explain. Because if there’s one thing that drives me INSANE when reading actions scripts, it’s the over-abundance of noise. In an action […]

Genre: Sci-fi Premise: In the future, there’s a new military weapon called an “APEE,” a human-like combat drone that links up with a soldier. When a soldier and his ape go missing in battle, his brother is sent in to locate the ape in order to find and save his brother. About: You may remember […]

Can the darlings of Hollywood, who have turned everything they’ve touched into gold, add one more gold bar to the vault? Genre: TV Pilot – Half-Hour Single-Camera Comedy Premise: An unpopular computer science professor invents a time machine and goes back to 1776, where he falls in love with a girl and, in the process, […]

Genre: Contained Thriller Premise: When a young woman wakes up in the fortified cellar of a man’s farm house, she must figure out if the mysterious reason why he says she’s there is true or not. About: This was just a regular spec script until JJ Abrams’ company, Bad Robot, decided to adapt it into […]

So here’s the thing. I didn’t love Aaron Sorkin’s “Steve Jobs” when I first read it. But when I saw the movie, a lot of the stuff I didn’t think would work DID work, and it turned out to be one of my favorite movies of the year. The fact that it was kept out […]