Category Archives: film

Daybreakers – Broken Story Comments Off

Daybreakers: What went wrong?
Last night some friends and I went to see the new movie Daybreakers. Honestly, I’m a little sick of vampires, but I wanted to see what they did with it.
Daybreakers is the vision of the Spierig brothers. With the 1940s style costuming and vampire friendly environment you feel like you’re seeing [...]

Edward Scissorhands – still the best Christmas movie ever Comments Off

OK, so technically, it’s probably not considered a Christmas movie, but I put it in my catalog of fun things to watch around Christmas time.
Here’s the original trailer:

Here’s some making of clips about the film’s birth:

Part 2

An excellent interview with the screenwriter Caroline Thompson:
http://library.creativecow.net/articles/olague_robert/caroline_thompson.php
I couldn’t find the original script, but I did find a [...]

[writing] When it’s all over we still have cake Comments Off

I finished reading the second out of nine research books last night. Research is probably one of my favorite parts of writing. I’ve written two other novels and I have to be honest and say that the research on those works was minimal. I know not every story requires research. I’m [...]