Yes, I’m trying out Connect Care Commit instead of Believe Care Invest, just to see how it feels! I can’t decide. Why Richard might be h...

It’s interesting that this movie didn’t do as well on the structure section as you’d think... The Ultimate Story Checklist: The Fugitive...

Here’s an old New Yorker cartoon I’ve never fogotten: Just as we only ever seem to find “staunch Republicans”, another two words that al...

The Fugitive doesn’t plant its clues early on. In fact, it reverses the traditional set-up and pay-off structure. Every time Kimble gets ...

Let’s add another genre convention that The Fugitive refuses to deliver: the false conviction isn’t calculated to make our blood boil. ...

I’ve said before that audiences expect a genre movie to meet most of the pre-established genre expectations, but defy a few of them . The...

Sorry I'm running late, but you’ll get four posts next week! When I first gave my rules about not allowing your hero to be an everym...

Hi guys! So no, I’m not just going to keep churning out these checklists forever. I have big plans for this blog, and we’ll talk about tho...