Analyse movies minute-by-minute with our new series TIMECODES. Blending film criticism with creative nonfiction, each book focuses on a single film from beginning to end.

First books out now! Gerry by Nicholas Rombes and BlacKkKlansman by Alex Zamalin:
www.bloomsbury.com/series/timec...

Thinking more about this. So far every Trump pick has been a real piece of work — incompetent, corrupt and/or sexual abuser. This isn't because Trump is a bad judge of character, it's because that's what he wants — incompetence and moral turpitude guarantee loyalty 1/

Hey, Blue Place, wanna hear me talk about unconventional narrative structure for an hour?

Sure you do:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHNC...

Mike Huckabee has been named ambassador to Israel.

All those Gaza protest votes really paid off.🙄

We know that we're getting a kakistocracy — rule by the worst. But is there also a Greek term for rule by weirdos? www.theguardian.com/media/2019/f...

So, new place, here's a bit of what I do - a 7min doc in which migrant workers from Burma, living and working in Mae Sot (Thai border city), talk about love and migration:

vimeo.com/388870549

This time he’s changed. He promised he won’t beat me.

Good news: Twitter is collapsing.

And this chart doesn't even show the last two weeks—which have seen the largest exodus in site history.

There are reports from Newsweek and others that Twitter may merge with Truth Social.

If that happens, the last collapse of Twitter may happen almost overnight.

NEW: Supreme Court REJECTS Mark Meadows' petition to review lower court decision denying his motion to move his Georgia election subversion case to federal court. Case will proceed in Fulton County.

Reminder: President cannot not pardon in this case. www.democracydocket.com/cases/georgi...

So, to those who don't know me, I'm a writer, filmmaker and researcher in screenwriting studies.

I've written a book which identifies and seeks to challenge the misinformation about screenwriting practice spread by self-styled "gurus".

It's out in Feb: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/beyond-th...

Rereading “Let This Radicalize You” by @prisonculture.bsky.social and I’m hanging on to this paragraph right here…

New art challenge:

Draw for an hour a day INSTEAD OF doomscrolling on socials for an hour a day.

Who's in?

for anyone trying to extricate yourself from the clutches of Amazon: bookstores make more than a third of their money between now & New Year’s, & most bookstores ship nationwide 💌

So what's it like over here then?

Let's see:

Here's a video-essay I made for the 2023 Artistic Research conference at Kristiania University College in Oslo.

It's about how the conventions of screenwriting emerged & why it's important for screenwriters to challenge them.

vimeo.com/809785712/aa...

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