Movie News and Links: 01-28-10

Here are some interesting movie-related stories and links I’ve discovered for January 28, 2010: Popular Mechanics has picked their top sci-fi, military and environmental films at Sundance 2010.  It’s pilot season in the television world, and...

Real Life Pandora “Plant”

This is cool Apparently fiction is sometimes as strange as truth. Check out this undersea “plant” (soft coral?) that has the same defense mechanism as the disappearing plant on Pandora, from James Cameron’s little indie film, Avatar. Via...
Top Four!

Top Four!

Writing feature screenplays is hard work. Every now and again I find a great excus — er… exercise, that allows me to focus on something else for a while.1 So when Julie Gray, of the popular web site JustEffing.com, held a one page scene competition, it...
Cracked Movie Articles

Cracked Movie Articles

The good folks at Cracked.com have some hilarious and surprisingly insightful articles about movies. Here are some of my faves: 6 Insane Fan Theories That Actually Make Great Movies Better 5 Gaping Plot Holes Hollywood Knows You Won’t Notice 5 Things Hollywood...