Sex In A Submarine

The adventures of a professional screenwriter and sometimes film festival jurist, slogging through the trenches of Hollywood, writing movies that you have never heard of, and getting no respect.
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Friday, May 29, 2026

Fridays With Hitchcock: Hitch Techniques by Jeffrey Michael Bays

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Years ago "Hitchcock Whisperer" Jeffrey Michael Bays contacted me about being one of the "talking heads" in his new seri...
Thursday, May 28, 2026

Thriller Thursday: The Big Blackout

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The Big Blackout The spider web fills the screen, it's Boris Karloff's THRILLER! Season: 1, Episode: 12. Airdate: 12/6/...
Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Scene Of The Week: DIRTY HARRY

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This week’s scene is one of my favorites, and it does a great job of introducing the protagonist... using *visual* exposition rather than th...
Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Trailer Tuesday: PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE

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Directed by: Brian DePalma. Written by: Brian DePalma, music & lyrics by Paul Williams. Starring: William Finley, Jessica Harper, G...
Friday, May 22, 2026

Fridays With Hitchcock: William Friedkin on VERTIGO

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We lost a great filmmaker when Billy Friedkin passed away in August. From THE EXORCIST to FRENCH CONNECTION to SORCERER to TO LIVE AND DIE I...
Thursday, May 21, 2026

THRILLER Thursday: Pigeons From Hell

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Pigeons From Hell The spider web fills the screen, it's Boris Karloff's THRILLER! Season: 1, Episode: 36. Airdate: June...
Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Film Courage Plus: Subtext In Dialogue.

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FILM COURAGE did a series of interviews with me, around 36 (or more) segments total. That's almost a year's worth of material! So wh...
Tuesday, May 19, 2026

Trailer Tuesday: EDDIE PRESLEY (1992)

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Mentioned on Monday Night's double bill of the late Jeff Burr's films... EDDIE PRESLEY (1992) Directed by: Jeff Burr Written by...
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Friday, May 15, 2026

Fridays With Hitchcock: HITCH 20: The Perfect Crime. (s2e3)

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This is a great new documentary series called HITCH 20 that I have been a "guest expert" on (season 1). The series looks at the 20...
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I've written 19 films that were carelessly slapped onto celluloid: 3 for HBO, 2 for Showtime, 2 for USA Net, and a whole bunch of CineMax Originals (which is what happens when an HBO movie goes really, really wrong). I've been on some film festival juries, including Raindance in London (four times - once with Mike Figgis and Saffron Burrows, once with Lennie James and Edgar Wright). Roger Ebert talked about me with Gene Siskel on his 1997 "If We Picked The Winners" Oscar show. I'm quoted a few times in Bordwell's great book "The Way Hollywood tells It". My USA Net flick HARD EVIDENCE was released on video the same day as the Julia Roberts' film Something To Talk About and out-rented it in the USA. I've also written a whole bunch of theatrical projects that never got made (I got paid) and was stupid enough to actually *turn down* the job of adapting Dan Brown's ANGELS & DEMONS. On the personal side - I'm single and fat and 6 foot 4 inches tall. Like dogs, hate cats.
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