Hollywood can feel like a Template Movie Making Machine, and I am proudly and ashamedly part of it. Sometimes I’ll see a headline in the news and I can see myself three years in the …
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movie making machine
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actions > words
It truly doesn’t matter how long I’ve been a working writer, I still have days where I feel like I need to go back to How to Write Good school and learn my colors and …
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Pandemic Premiere
Since it became abundantly clear that the Pandemic was not going anywhere anytime soon, Hollyweird decided they would send the concept of the Movie Premiere to the viewer’s home, by providing secret viewing links and …
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CHRISTMAS QUAKE
Early this morning, North Carolina had its first earthquake in 94 years, a magnitude 5.1. Thankfully no reports of injuries, just some lost bags of flour and bottles of Sunkist at grocery stores, some disturbed …
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The Secret: Dare to Stream
Last Friday night, quietly, secretly, pandemically, my first ever movie — an adaptation of the self-help book The Secret — started streaming on itunes and Amazon Prime. Many movies that were scheduled for theatrical releases …
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What the World Needs Now
Is love sweet love and also MORE BEAUTIFUL BLACK INDIE FILMS like this one, Miss Juneteenth, which I watched last night (ON AMAZON PRIME PLZ DO THE SAME.) It’s takes place in what the writer …
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Oscars so Icelandic
My favorite moment from last night OTHER than Parasite winning three awards INCLUDING best film becoming the FIRST foreign film to win best picture in the 92 YEARS of the Academy’s HISTORY and other random …
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YES, IT HOLDS UP
I confess that at least once a month, if not weekly, I think about the 90’s movie, Junior, in which Arnold Schwarzenegger CARRIES A BABY TO TERM. When I think about it, I’m usually wondering, …
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Private Life
I’ve been avoiding this movie on Netflix for MONTHS. It’s about a couple struggling to have a baby by really any means necessary: IUI, IVF, egg donation, adoption, baby theft. It gets deep into the …
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I WROTE THIS (?)
I truly don’t understand how I’ve made it through any previous Christmases without this Hallmark movie. I discovered it last night, because November. It’s Romeo and Juliet, but the feuding families are NEIGHBORING CHRISTMAS TREE …