My hometown of Bay City, Michigan, has wrapped its annual Hell’s Half Mile Film & Music Festival (HHM) after four fun days—Sept. 21-24. Hell's Half Mile was named one of the coolest film festivals in the world by Movie Maker earlier this summer. [article] Though I couldn't be there in person this year, I was … Continue reading Bay City, Michigan’s Hell’s Half Mile Film Fest a haven for indie auteurs

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