Writers Jim Cooper, Jeff Dixon & Director Leo Riley Talk Gateway Horror Animated TV Series “Curses!”
Creators Jim Cooper and Jeff Dixon never set out to make an animated horror show for kids. “Curses! sort of happened because we’re both dads and our local kids went to elementary school together. We met dropping the kids off at school and found out we were both writers,” says Jim Cooper known for his […]
“A Con Movie in Reverse” Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka on Apple’s ‘Sharper’
Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka met in the graduate program at Columbia Film School. Gatewood recalls, “We weren’t friends. We didn’t hang out, but we had our first screenwriting class together and we liked each others’ writing.” “We started to talk and found we had uncanny similarities in terms of taste, what movies we liked, […]
“Sisters Behaving Very Badly” Sharon Horgan On ‘Bad Sisters’
This article contains mild spoilers. Audiences can be assured of comedy that’s dark, gritty, and uproariously hilarious if it’s created by Sharon Horgan (Catastrophe, Shining Vale). Her latest offering Bad Sisters is no different – five sisters each with a motive to kill, a dead brother-in-law, and two “insurance detectives” determined to proved malicious intent […]
“Do A Little Good” Sean Anders & John Morris On A ‘Spirited’ Reimagining Of Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’
A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens was an originally published as a novella in 1843. It is one of the most enduring, heart-warming stories of the Christmas spirit that has touched generations. It was originally inspired when Dickens visited an orphanage in London, England and was aghast […]
“Not A Film About Deafness” Siân Heder Talks ‘CODA’
CODA (Children Of Deaf Adults) began its creative life as a French film called La Famille Bélier (The Bélier Family) in 2014. Several years later, writer/ director Siân Heder (Orange Is The New Black, Little America) reimagined it into CODA – a story of the Rossi family who are deaf except for their daughter Ruby […]
