Mesrine (2008)
Mesrine was at two-part film. I’m writing about it here as one piece of work. It’s widely available as BluRay or DVD in the two […]
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Beat Street (1984) – thoughts of a Script Consultant UK
As a script writer for hire and UK script consultant I try and write about and highlight films that have great scripts, or original ideas. Some of […]
The Escape Artist (1982) – thoughts of a Script Consultant UK
As a script writer for hire and UK script consultant I’ve written a ton of blogposts about films that I love. Amongst these films, there aren’t many […]
Hire a professional script writer – without using an agent
As an award winning script writer for hire and UK script consultant with over 20 years’ experience in film and TV, I’m often expected to have […]
Phantom Thread (2017)
Phantom Thread, well what can I say? This is probably the best film I’ve seen since Dan Day Lewis and Paul Thomas Anderson got together […]
Robby Muller (1940-2018)
As a UK script consultant and script writer for hire, I of course, watch a hell of a lot of movies, and I have done so, since I […]
Dillinger (1973)
Well, there isn’t a wasted frame in Dillinger, the first proper film directed by John Milius, one of the original movie brats (and apparently the […]
Emmerdale: 4 March 2002
Here’s a full episode of Emmerdale that I wrote back in 2002. It’s being hosted by a fan on YouTube and I came across it […]
Lies We Tell (2017)
Lies We Tell was a project that is set fairly locally to me and I briefly worked on the script (alongside my wife Alison Pennells) […]
The Deer Hunter (1978)
I don’t think I’ve blogged about The Deer Hunter before. I watched it again for the first time in a long while last night and […]