Friends, Romans, countrypeople... my plans to write an essay about dumb blondes inspired by James Gunn's Superman has been waylaid (for now) by "my job", so instead, here's a little treat: an essay I wrote about 50 years of Jaws for The Big Issue.
Outside of screenwriting, I don't write a lot of fiction. Well, I would like to, but the thought of writing fiction conjures up feelings of deep embarrassment and woe - I'd rather share the pages of my diary (if I were capable of keeping one for
(Spoilers follow for just about every Jurassic Park/World movie.) There's a dream I've had since I first read Michael Crichton's The Lost World in about three sittings over the Christmas holidays in 1995. I'm in an urban environment (a school, maybe,
Once upon a time, I was a freelance writer. (See above for evidence.) Ten or fifteen years ago, there were numerous opportunities to place culture writing (that is, essays and reflections not pinned to or timed for a glancingly brief window of "relevance" designed to maximise "impact&