matthew cooper writer – Page 15 – Script writer for hire and UK script consultant

Rounders

14th November 2015 @matcoop 0

I love Rounders, the script had been around for a while and apparently turned down by every studio that read it at least once. It’s […]

Mad Men

7th November 2015 @matcoop 0

Yep, it’s not a film, and it’s all the better for it. Mad Men is about the guys and gals who worked in the advertising […]

Blue Collar

24th October 2015 @matcoop 0

Paul Shrader’s Blue Collar is on the few American films about real life working people. Set in Detroit in the 1970s the film follows three […]

Midnight Run

16th October 2015 @matcoop 0

The buddy movie was big thing back in the 80s and 90s. Good buddy movies have also sprinkled in with various other film genres throughout […]

Way of the Dragon

10th October 2015 @matcoop 0

Yes, a guilty pleasure. Way of the Dragon is my favourite Bruce Lee film. It’s also a film Bruce wrote and directed himself. Set in […]

Rumblefish

3rd October 2015 @matcoop 0

We all love Francis, and I think his career is one of the closest to Welles’ in the modern day. Yet, Welles never gave up […]

McCabe and Mrs. Miller

26th September 2015 @matcoop 0

We’re coming up to October 2015, winter is coming. One of the great films to watch in winter is Robert Altman’s McCabe and Mrs.Miller. It’s […]

To Live and Die in L.A

20th September 2015 @matcoop 0

I had to check I hadn’t written before about To Live and Die in L.A, it’s a film I have a great fondness for and […]

Dirty Harry

19th September 2015 @matcoop 0

Don Siegal could direct. He’d been around Hollywood since the golden age. He could edit too, he could cut and shoot, like Dirty Harry, played […]

Chinatown

13th September 2015 @matcoop 0

Robert Towne wrote Chinatown, The Last Detail, Shampoo, The Parallax View and worked without credit as ghost writer on what could be literally hundreds of […]