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M*A*S*H Quiz
M*A*S*H is one of the best television series of all time and was one of the first shows to cross comedy with drama, mixing hilarious hi-jinx with the horrors of war. The series lasted eleven years, eight more than the actual Korean War in which it was set, and most of those years it was […]
2012 Razzies – Now with Winners!
Originally published on February 26, 2012. This year’s Academy Awards are upon us, but amid all the razzle-dazzle of awards season is one event that’s less that auspicious: The Golden Raspberry Award. Originally started in 1981, the Razzies celebrates the worst films of the year. Typically, Hollywood ignores this ignominious honor, though Sandra Bullock did […]
Outlining a Screenplay
This article originally appeared on Screenwriters Daily March 25, 2012. A phenomenal idea just struck the creative center of your brain, and you know that it will make an amazing movie. You must write the script for this masterpiece, but the question is how do you develop that fleeting concept into a well-structured screenplay? The […]
10 Great Minor Characters on Futurama
As with The Simpsons, the first animated comedy created by Matt Groening, Futurama populates its universe (in this case, literally) with a variety of unique and entertaining characters. The principals–Fry, Leela, Bender, et al–are strong enough to please the rabid fans, and certain recurring characters like Robot Santa, Robot Devil, and Lrrr of the planet […]
Tim Burton Quiz
Tim Burton has one of the most distinctive visual styles of any filmmaker who ever sat behind a camera. He is credited with creating a gothic style in cinema (thereby establishing himself as the default hero to goth teens everywhere). His films mix humor with horror in an usual twisted and macabre manner, whether it’s […]
Structure: The Framework of a Screenplay
This article originally appeared on Screenwriters Daily March 18, 2012. The most basic structure of telling a story is to have a beginning, middle, and end. Screenwriting is a bit more complicated than this as not only do you have to tell a good story with interesting characters, but you have to adhere to a […]
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Best Spam Messages on FilmVerse
One of the banes of our modern existence is spam in our email inbox, but what I’ve learned since maintaining FilmVerse is that spammers also target the comment section of blogs. Of course, we all had knowledge of this in an academic way thanks to all the Captchas that we have to wade through any […]