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Movie Reviews I review the following movies and their story structure:
The following are columns originally written for Screentalk, the International Magazine of Screenwriting.
A review of Mulholland Drive that explores how this complex story was built on a foundation of simple ideas. A review of the structure of Memento and how going back in time can advance a story.
A review of The Sweet Hereafter, The Five Senses, and Last Night that explores how stripping characters of a familar world can set a story into motion.
A review of You Can Count on Me.
A review of Mystery Science Theater's Pod People and the effect of obscurity.
A review of A Simple Plan.
A review of the Sixth Sense and Stir of Echoes.
A review of After Life, a Japanese film about the choices that need to be made at death before proceeding to an after life.
Notes on The Limey, One Fine Day, Pitch Black and other movies to explore how story ideas are embedded in the action.
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