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Homelanders in the Hollywood Reporter

August 15, 2011 Culture

This article in last week’s Hollywood Reporter laid out the team that will be tackling the Homelanders movie: Miles Chapman has been hired to pen Summit’s adaptation of Homelanders, a young-adult book series by Andrew Klavan. Screenwriters Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, best known as the showrunners of TV’s Smallville, are working with Chapman in [...]

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Movie: Bridesmaids

June 1, 2011 Culture

[Possible spoiler - though I think everything here is in the trailer.] So regarding Bridesmaids:  reality check me here.  A bride and her bridesmaids go to a high-class dress shop.  They all get food poisoning and vomit and have diarrhea over everything.  Is that a funny idea?  Am I missing something?  I mean, I get [...]

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“Warlands” Optioned

May 24, 2011 News

Andrew’s first ever romantic comedy screenplay has been optioned. The script, called “Warlands,” deals with a pair of video gamers who fall in love with the same girl gamer. “I never thought I’d write a romantic comedy,” Andrew says, “but I think the story is unique and it had been bothering me for over ten [...]

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DVD: Country Strong

May 18, 2011 Culture

If ever there was a woman who should be seen and not heard it is Gwyneth Paltrow.  I find her stunningly beautiful, but every time she opens her mouth off-screen she sounds awesomely shallow, spoiled rotten and anti-American. In fact, I can’t help wondering if the expatriate actress took this role as an alcoholic country [...]

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Growr!

May 3, 2011 Culture

I always like stuff like this.  Last week, I noted that the good folks at ShoulderHill Entertainment are moving forward with plans to film my horror screenplay Bury The Dead later this year.  SH’s Steven Addair, who plans to direct, sent me this artist’s rendering of one of the script’s ancillary characters: Roseanne Barr has [...]

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Game: Donkey Kong Country Returns

April 14, 2011 Culture

One of the troubles with technological art forms is that the technology sometimes forces the shape of the art.  Alfred Hitchcock used to complain about this in the movies, even though he was always one of the first to experiment with whatever  new technology came along.  He wasn’t convinced that sound improved film (note Vertigo [...]

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Film: “Hereafter”

April 6, 2011 Culture

Great director (Clint Eastwood), attractive cast (led by Matt Damon), talented screenwriter (Peter Morgan), interesting subject (uh, death) – and none of it works.  That’s showbiz. I hate to blame the screenwriter for anything because I know from experience that he has little say in what finally makes it to the screen.  But whoever’s responsible, the [...]

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Lust, Caution

December 10, 2010 Culture

Bad title, good movie.  Really good, in fact.  Compelling, surprising, brutally honest.  Ang Lee directs the insanely appealing Wei Tang in a story of sex and espionage in World War II-era Shanghai. On one level, this is just a modern reworking of Hitchcock’s masterpiece Notorious, but it does go deep into the human psyche and [...]

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Our Fathers: God on “Justified”

June 14, 2010 Culture

“We know that a person is justified not by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ.”  Galatians 2:16 Sigmund Freud believed that God was no more than a projection of our ideal father onto the heavens.  Myself, I think it’s exactly the other way around.  There’s no particular reason I can [...]

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A Couple of Interviews

April 20, 2010 Culture

There are two new and interesting interviews with me online now – interesting to me anyway!  One’s over at PJTV where I spoke with the lovely Danika Quinn about the Tea Party and the way it’s treated by the media. The other interview is about Summit Entertainment’s movie option on The Long Way Home.  That [...]

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