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When this happened with my last script it got picked up by a top producer and an amazing director. Here’s to lightening striking twice 🤞🏻 https://blcklst.com/projects/149594

First you’ll need to find an appropriate glass. A straight short tumbler. Put ice in it. Eyeball measure one part Kahlua to one part vodka, then pour in two parts light cream (milk is also suitable). Stir. You now have a White Russian. Every time The Dude makes himself a White Russian, make yourself one … Continue reading A  Short Guide to Watching The Big Lebowski

We’ve been on a Jimmy Stewart fix in this house recently, watching Rear Window, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Winchester ’73, Destry Rides Again (one of his best in my opinion), tonight’s film: Mr Smith Goes to Washington, and soon, as with every Christmas, It’s A Wonderful Life. He had a certain way with … Continue reading Jimmy Stewart Rides Again

This has made my day! I just got a really excellent evaluation on The Black List for a screenplay I wrote called Runts. (I’ve shared the final part of the evaluation in the second image). A previous evaluation described the script as being “stunningly executed”. The crazy thing is, I wasn’t sure about this one. … Continue reading 8 On The Black List!

A parcel arrived today. A parcel I was not expecting. Inside… was a gunbelt. It is such an unbelievable and unexpected gift! It’s amazing!! It was sent by friend and novelist Angela C Nurse, who writes very popular Scotland based detective mysteries, and had belonged to her late father. I know it has great sentimental … Continue reading An Unexpected Gunslinging Gift

While I was between jobs, about a year and a half ago, I wrote a feature-length script in four weeks. This week, I read it for the first time since then. It’s a hell of a lot better than I remember. It needs a couple of new scenes and a slightly different ending, but I’ve … Continue reading Writing Runts

I was looking back over a book I had abandoned writing a few years ago, and was surprised by the final few paragraphs, which had nothing to do with the novel. They were instead my reflections on hearing the news about my dad’s diagnosis, which would take his life shortly after, and how death is … Continue reading The Slightly Morbid Reason I Write

I’m currently writing a pilot episode for a tv show (an original idea that nobody knows about yet), and I needed to get more inside the head of the main character than I was. He is Fletcher Madoc, an internationally renowned sceptic and debunker of conspiracy theories and myths. On the wall of Fletcher’s office … Continue reading Prop Up Your Writing

I picked up Logan’s Run on Blu-ray in HMV Brighton today. I first saw this film in 1997 on a double bill with Fahrenheit 451 on BBC 2’s Moviedrome, introduced by Mark Cousins. I was thirteen then and I haven’t seen the film since but I remember it vividly. I’m nervous to watch it again … Continue reading Logan’s Run – Moviedrome, BBC 2 – 1997

I came to Martin Amis via Christopher Hitchens. There is something poignant about them both dying of the same thing (esophageal cancer). I’m sure they’re chuckling about it in the afterlife that neither of them believed in (although Amis was agnostic – “We’re about eight Einsteins away from getting any kind of handle on the … Continue reading RIP Martin Amis