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Avengers: Infinity War Shows How to Write a Huge Ensemble Story

Why Marvel’s biggest movie yet is a great example of how to write for a large ensemble of characters.

A female Indiana Jones? Why not? Here’s how to tell a defining character trait apart from a trait that can evolve over time.

10 years after Marvel Studios released Iron Man, here’s how that movie’s success has been duplicated in every MCU film since.

Compare the biggest changes between Jordan Peele’s screenplay for Get Out and his finished film.

How the success of Black Panther changes action movies and lays the groundwork for Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle is satisfying despite its shortcomings. How? Because it gets the three most important aspects of any story right.

From Star Wars to Casablanca, some of Hollywood’s best-loved classics were saved in the edit. Here are three ways editing can make or break a film.

Lady Bird is a movie that does nearly everything right. Here’s why Greta Gerwig’s solo directorial debut works so well.

Molly’s Game is missing three key ingredients that keep the story from being truly satisfying.

From story problems in Blade Runner to the great irony of The Walking Dead, here are my top 10 blog posts that attracted the most readers in 2017.