Tag: Movies
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#ScreenPit sends screenwriters, Twitter into a fabulous frenzy!
by G. Robert Frazier Regular readers of this blog will recall my earlier entry touting my love of #Screenwriting Twitter. Yesterday, there was an abundance of love – and a bit of drama — over on the platform: Hundreds of writers pushing their screenplays upon an unsuspecting world! In case…
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Nashville Film Fest a fun, great learning experience
By G. Robert Frazier The Nashville Film Festival concluded its most recent run Saturday after 10 days of movies, informational panels about the film industry, and parties celebrating the creative minds behind the films and scripts entered in the event. As a script reader for the screenwriting competition, I earned…
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REVIEW: Latest Star Wars movie excites, but aggravates too
NOTE TO READERS: If you have been living under a rock and haven’t seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens yet, don’t read any farther! by G. Robert Frazier Star Wars: The Force Awakens has finally played itself out to hordes of fans and left many giddy with excitement and others…
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Around the Web: Bond, Star Trek franchises endure with new movies, books, series
by G. Robert Frazier Every day I scour the web for interesting articles about writing, reading, and other fascinating stories. I occasionally share those in this space, just because I’m such a cool guy. Today’s roundup consists of two movie franchises with huge fan bases, and no, I’m not talking…
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Horror world loses iconic director Wes Craven
Wes Craven, 1939-2015 Wes Craven, the man who gave us Freddy Krueger in A Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream and The Hills Have Eyes has died. He was 76. I believe the cinema is one of our principal forms of art. It is an incredibly powerful way to tell uplifitng…
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Review: Ant-Man’s silly fun works for fan boys, kids only
I’m apparently not the comic book fan boy geek I used to be. Otherwise, I should have loved Ant-Man, the latest Marvel super-hero opus gracing your local Cineplex. But, for all of its efforts, I was bored, annoyed, and just plain uninspired by the film. Oddly, it’s getting pretty decent…
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G. Robert Frazier’s Best of List
With the Grammys behind us and the Oscars ahead, I thought I’d present my own Best of… roundup as well. Consider this, though, more of a people’s choice awards list. I haven’t seen all the Oscar contenders so I can’t rate the high-brow emotional stuff, and I’m not into pop…
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Magnificent movie dialogue to remember
As a practicing screenwriter, I’ve found myself paying a lot more attention to dialogue that sparkles in TV and movies. I have to say that the following exchange of dialogue from Maleficent is one of the most chillingly effective exchanges among all the big movies released so far this year: Princess…
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