Characters
As a Script Consultant UK I see a lot of scripts with underwritten characters. Writers often think the problems with their script start and end […]
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The Evil Dead (1981)
Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead from 1981 is a film I revisited last week. I hadn’t seen it in a while (indeed, long enough to […]
Something Wild
Jonathan Demme’s Something Wild from 1986 is one of the best movies of the 1980s. Demme died recently and was working pretty much up to […]
Script consultant UK – just part of the team
As a UK script consultant I’ve worked on a hell of a lot of broadcast TV. As a writer and storyline writer. Often working as […]
Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia
Sam Peckinpah’s Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia was made in 1974 – the year I was born. It’s hard to imagine now how […]
Delivering my first draft
My regular readers will know that I’ve been working on a major project recently to turn three cult novels into a trilogy of screenplays. Well, […]
Horror I have been watching
The Church (1989) is an enjoyable retro horror from the pen of the great Dario Argento, it’s recently been rereleased on glorious BluRay that really […]
Script writer and script consultant habits
As a UK script consultant and script writer for hire I obviously spend a large amount of my time writing. All writers have habits. I’m […]
Matthew Cooper Script consultant UK
I’m back from my holidays and powering on with a couple of new projects and people are continuing to contact me for script reports that […]
Holiday Road
Okay, I’ve been fairly busy the last couple of months on script writing projects that have come to me through this website. As a professional, […]