The next film in DK Canada’s informative and entertaining The Movie Book is this beautifully shot Chinese film starring Li Gong. Set in the 1920s, Songlian (Li) elects to become the fourth mistress of a wealthy lord, Chen Zuoqian (Jingwu Ma). She soon finds herself enmeshed in the rules of the household, and the scheming…
Tag: plotting
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993) – The Forsaken, and Dramatis Personae
Station log: stardate 46925.1 The Forsaken, written by Don Carlos Dunaway and Michael Piller from a story by Jim Trombella, first aired on 23 May 1993, and sees Lwaxana Troi (Majel Barrett) arriving on the station. She and another number of Federation ambassadors have arrived to have a look at the wormhole as well as…
2014 Toronto Screenwriting Conference
Wow. Sue and I were fortunate enough to be able to cover the Toronto Screenwriting Conference last year (and learned tons to apply to our own creative writing) and were delighted to be invited back again this year to sit in on it again. With the amazing guest line-up and the fact that everything we…
The Mind Reels 