Hi guys, I figured I should go ahead and create an archive page for my podcast ( I’ve already archived the ten episodes I guest-co-hosted th...

Hey guys, I just hid Thursday’s post to call more attention to this one, because Harvey Jerkwater just posted his very-cool version of my m...

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...

Not a universally beloved movie, nor one with a huge cultural impact, but one of my favorites...   The Ultimate Story Checklist: The Fig...

A modern masterpiece. The Ultimate Story Checklist: The Babadook Rulebook Casefile: Jennifer Kent vs. the Naysayers Straying from the ...

Just one more week to go, folks! Also next week: A new podcast! The Ultimate Story Checklist: Sunset Boulevard Straying From the Party ...

This was the first movie whose coverage I archived, but now I’ve archived the archive! The Ultimate Story Checklist: Star Wars   How St...

This is another one where some interesting questions were cut from the checklist in the course of updating it from version 5 to version 6,...

A perfect movie... The Ultimate Story Checklist: Silence of the Lambs Straying From the Party Line # 2: The Strands of the Movie Never...

I would have thought that I did more posts about this movie, but it looks like I just did three... The Ultimate Story Checklist: Sideway...

I just discovered that this one never made it into the sidebar, so this one will be new for many of you. The Ultimate Story Checklist: R...

I usually take the summer off starting around now, but I should finish up these revised checklists first, so let’s keep going! It’s nice t...

The Ultimate Story Checklist: Iron Man Straying From the Party Line # 9: Iron Man Rulebook Casefile: Exchange of a Symbolic Object in ...

This is another one from the early days where I was sort of transitioning from writing about Underrated Movies to spotlighting classics fo...

One of the first movies I spent a lot of time on.  In regards to the third piece below, I’ve now seen Up many times with my daughter, and...

Dear God, that opening credits song is awful... The Ultimate Story Checklist: Groundhog Day Straying from the Party Line #11: Groundho...

I had a lot to say about this movie... The Ultimate Story Checklist: Frozen Straying from the Party Line: Anna’s Two Longstanding Probl...

Out of all the movies I’ve done, this is probably the most forgotten. It was from the early days of the checklists when the idea was more ...

I think we had a lot of really good discussions about this movie in the comments.  Updated to the sixth and final version of the Checklist...

A fun series that I ’ ve rarely referred back to.  Some of this ended up in the Tone section of the book, in a very transformed way.  Th...