It's kind of funny that I had originally set out to write screenplays about dark romances with plenty of humor and heartbreak and sell them to the big studios ... but now spend most of my time creating horror movie scenarios for indie production companies. Don't get me wrong, I love it. I'm a huge … Continue reading Working with filmmaker on horror with flavors of House, Poltergeist, and Barbarian

Been watching a lot more foreign films the last few years. And even more in the last year. Here's a great German flick that came out when I was just a lad of 10 but didn't see until this past year. Warning: review contains some vague but not ruinous spoilers. Guten abend, meine kinder! Tonight’s … Continue reading Looking for a weird and wonderful movie? Try SugarBaby (1985)

One step closer to being official! I signed the sales contract giving the rights of The Truffaut Affair screenplay over to BenAliza Productions today. When Matt and me (sounds an awful lot like an awful '80s movie) met last December and began hashing out ideas for a French-New-Wave-themed story set in modern L.A., I could … Continue reading My first screenplay sale is complete!

I don’t have a favorite movie. I don’t even have a favorite hundred movies. I might, if you pressed a fork into my hand and threatened me with a plate of tuna noodle casserole, blech!, whittle it down to—say—five hundred flicks. So, when tasked by our fearless Francophile director Matthew Ben Miller to name my … Continue reading Ben’s top 5 Film Noir and French New Wave movies … sort of

My weird little dark dramedy short film script The Strange Untried has been selected for inclusion at the 2023 Le Festival du Film du Fantasme, also known as France's Fantasy Film Festival. Now in its fourth year, the FFF is an international film festival focused on fantasy and sci-fi. "The Fantasy Film Festival is the … Continue reading ‘The Strange Untried’ selected by Fantasy Film Festival in Paris