Take a look at the contenders for the 2012 Oscar race and it’s clear fans of suspense had much to be thankful for in 2012. With ZERO DARK THIRTY, DJANGO UNCHAINED and ARGO all serious contenders for the top honor, and with DJANGO UNCHAINED and ARGO taking home many of the top awards, the accolades [...]
Category Archive for ‘Film’ 
The Dark in Zero Dark Thirty
Jan 14, 2013 in Film
Spoiler alert: DO NOT read this blog post if you haven’t yet seen Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal’s new film; this post most likely goes into enough detail that you’ll probably come away feeling a little bit like someone ruined the surprise for you. At least, as much as one can feel that way [...]
Year End Review: A Few Thoughts on Jim Thompson and The Grifters
Dec 27, 2012 in eBooks, Film, Guest Posts
With 2013 just around the corner, it’s the perfect time to sit back and reflect on another year of great content and great books. Check back twice daily in the last days of 2012 for a selection of our favorite MulhollandBooks.com posts from the past year! There are those moments in life so powerful and [...]
Not Your Father’s Bond
Dec 11, 2012 in Film, Guest Posts
The new James Bond movie Skyfall has been out in theaters for about a month now, and as pretty much anybody visiting this site must already know, critics are calling it one of the best Bond films in decades. There are, of course, many reasons why the film has been met with the acclaim that [...]
Daughters of Daughters of Eve: An Interview with Megan Abbott
Jul 30, 2012 in Books, Film, Guest Posts, Writing
Laura Lippman: One thing that struck me about DARE ME is that it’s told by an insider, someone inside the group, not an outsider who’s infiltrating it (Mean Girls) or an outsider (pretty much every book I read as a teen). And it struck me that was a bit new for you, too, especially when [...]
Movie Review: Savages
Jul 24, 2012 in Film, Guest Posts
Adapting Don Winslow’s 2010 novel Savages was never going to be easy. The book is both revelation and revolution whose joys come from its distinctive prose as its propulsive plot. Winslow’s novel feels like the culmination of years of experimentation in previous books like The Winter of Frankie Machine, The Death and Life of Bobby [...]
One-Shot Stopping
Jul 11, 2012 in Fiction, Film, Guest Posts, Television, Writing
One of the worst myths created by movies and TV is the one-shot stop. You know how it goes: an action-adventure hero runs into a warehouse filled with bad guys. A gunfight breaks out. The hero runs through a maze of crates and equipment and takes down every bad guy he encounters until he reaches [...]
Don Winslow, Interviewed by Shane Salerno
Jul 06, 2012 in Books, Film, Guest Posts
Today, the film Savages, based on the Don Winslow novel of the same name, opens in theaters. Check out the trailer, if you haven’t already. Directed by Oscar winner Oliver Stone, the film’s screenplay is the product of a collaboration between novelist Don Winslow and screenwriter Shane Salerno. Winslow and Salerno have known each other [...]
The Lowdown on Up Tight
Apr 27, 2012 in Film, Guest Posts
This essay was originally published at Ebony.com By all cultural accounts, 1968 was a hellish year for America. The assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy helped spark the “burn baby burn” sensibility ignited in the streets. It was also during this turbulent period that Paramount Pictures reluctantly agreed to finance Jules Dassin’s remake [...]
The Source Material
Apr 23, 2012 in Film, Guest Posts, Mulholland Authors
I once wrote a screenplay. It was the first one I ever wrote. I had to borrow a feature film script from my landlord in New York, Mr. Lee, because I didn’t even know the format of a screenplay. I had to use the TAB key to indent a million times because I didn’t have [...]
