Frustrated by First Drafts
WritingAndrew Sherwoodantagonist, character, Dinosaur Script, On Writing, plot, protagonist, reddit, shitty first drafts, Stephen King, u/yourpostasamovie, Writing
Twisting History at The Movies
The Business EndAndrew SherwoodAnthony Mann, Babieca, Charleton Heston, Dune, El Cid, epic, Francisco Franco, hero worship, Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, Sophia Loren, Spanish Civil War, Tizona
Abbas Kiarostami
How Movies WorkAndrew SherwoodA Taste of Cherry, Abbas Kiarostami, Bonus Entry, Cannes Film Festival, Close-Up, Dariush Mehrjui, Koker Trilogy, Life and Nothing More---, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Palme D'Or, Through The Olive Trees
Wheels Within Wheels
ArtAndrew SherwoodArrakis, Arthur C- Clarke, Bene Gesserit, conspiracy theories, Duke Leto, Dune, Fear is the mind-killer, Feng Zhu, Feng Zhu Design, Frank Herbert, General Zod, Kristen Brennan, Lady Jessica, Litany Against Fear, Man of Steel, Paul Atreides, sandworms, screencrush, superhero, Superman
Reductio Ad Villainy
WritingAndrew SherwoodBuzz Lightyear, chaotic evil, Chinatown, David Tennant, good vs evil, hero, Jessica Jones, Kilgrave, The Political Thriller, Toy Story, villain
Strangers on a Train Watching a Movie Together
How Movies WorkAndrew Sherwood1972 Olympics, Black September, Eric Bana, G-I- Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Hays Code, Howard Hawks, Israel and Palestine, Munich, people watching, Saving Private Ryan, Scarface, Schindler's List, Steven Spielberg, terrorism, violence
You Have Meddled With the Primal Forces of Time, Captain Kirk!
How Movies Work, ScienceAndrew SherwoodBack to the Future, Bones McCoy, Captain Kirk, Deep Space 9, Deep Space Nine, DS9, Game of Thrones, grandfather paradox, Network, Spock, Star Trek, The City on the Edge of Forever, The Great Depression, The Next Generation, TNG, Vox
Being Present
How Movies Work, Tech SupportAndrew SherwoodDavid Bordwell, DSLR, Dune, entertainment industry, First Law of Mentat, Frank Herbert, Los Angeles, photography, realism, sunset, teh interwebs
When You Give Yourself Tangerines...
How Movies WorkAndrew Sherwood2-35, CinemaScope, Duplass Brothers, ensemble staging, iPhone, Karren Karagulian, Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Mya Taylor, Rope, Russia House, Sean Baker, Sundance, Tangerine, The Incredibles, transgender, Uncanny Valley
Don't Just Stand There, Do Something!
How Movies Work, Tech SupportAndrew Sherwood16:9, 2-35, 4:3, aspect ratio, CinemaScope, David Bordwell, David Robert Mitchell, ensemble staging, Fritz Lang, It Follows, Poetics of Cinema, snakes and funerals, stand and deliver, walk and talk, widescreen
Yes, But Is It Art?
ArtAndrew SherwoodAmedeo Modigliani, Antiques Roadshow, Brows Held High, Charles Irving, Chartres Cathedral, Citizen Kane, Death of the Author, Elmyr de Hory, F for Fake, Francois Reichenbach, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, H-G- Wells, Henri Matisse, Howard Hughes, Kyle Kallgrin, Leonardo DiCaprio, Marcel Duchamp, Orson Welles, Pablo Picasso, Pas de Deux, Patton Oswalt, Samantha Bee, Stan Breakage, The War of The Worlds
Don't Get Your Hopes Up
Is This The House of Cards You Want To Die On?
How Movies WorkAndrew SherwoodArmando Ianucci, Barack Obama, David Bordwell, Donald Trump, House of Cards, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Katherine Miller, Kevin Spacey, Meredith Blake, Netflix, Patton, Politics, Veep, Vladimir Putin
Oversimplifying Dinosaurs and Science Journalism
ScienceAndrew Sherwoodasteroid, cassowaries, Chixiclub, Chris Vendittia, clade, dinosaurs, evolution, extinction, K-Pg Extinction, Manabu Sakamotoa, Michael J- Bentonb, Permian Extinction, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Yucatan Peninsula
To Have Your Cake And Measure Its Momentum Too
How Movies Work, Science, WritingAndrew Sherwoodatomic bomb, atomic energy, Copenhagen, Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, Leif Tronstad, Micahel Frayn, Nazi Germany, Niels Bohr, Norse Hydro, nuclear weapons, Occupied, Okkupert, quantum physics, The Heavy Water War, Werner Heisenberg, World War II
I, For One, Welcome Our New Eurasian Overlords
How Movies WorkAndrew Sherwood#onscreentexts, Babel, collaborator, conspiracy theories, Crash, David Bordwell, Let The Right One In, network narrative, Norway, Occupied, oil, Russia
#OnScreenTexts
Crossing Hitchcock
How Movies WorkAndrew SherwoodAlfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, Citizen Kane, David Bordwell, Don Siegel, ensemble staging, Evan Puschak, Every Frame a Painting, Figures Traced in Light, His Girl Friday, James Mason, James Stewart, Martin Landau, Memories of Murder, Nerdwriter, North by Northwest, staging, The Big Steal, The Cross, Tom Helmore, Tony Zhou, Vertigo
Jurassic World
How Movies WorkAndrew SherwoodDavid Bordwell, deinonychus, Dinosaur Renaissance, dinosaurs, John Ostrom, Jurassic Park, Jurassic World, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, tyrannosaurus rex, velociraptor, Vincent D'Onofrio
I Just Wanted To Watch a Movie About Gorillas
How Movies WorkAndrew SherwoodBelgium, documentary, King Leopold, M23 Rebellion, Mélanie Gouby, Orlando von Einsiedel, post colonialism, Soco, The Congo, Virunga
