Featured Image Courtesy of Netflix ★★★★☆ Nostalgia is the currency of popular television these days. From Mad Men to The Wonder Years , TV shows playing with themes of the past have been staples of the small screen. Now that decades like the ’90s are considered “vintage,” it only makes sense that they are memorialized […]
In a refreshing twist it seems that Beau DeMayo, the head writer on the upcoming ‘X-Men ’97’ show, insisted that the writers working on the show understood and respected the source material. Disney and Hollywood have run into a lot of issues with fans frustrated by changes to legacy franchises in the last few years. […]
Director of Legal Research and Writing Cecilia A. Silver teaches a class of Introduction to Legal Analysis and Writing, a course that all new J.D. students take in their first seven weeks of Yale Law School. It’s a short course with lofty goals. That’s in the syllabus description for Introduction to Legal Analysis and Writing, […]
An excerpt from the following first appeared in Lit Hub’s The Craft of Writing newsletter. I’ve been using dream materials in my poems since I first began writing poetry in the late sixties. I’ve taken words, images, narratives, parts of narratives from my own dreams and repeated them, transformed them, commented on, and sung them. […]
Ed Sheeran opened up about losing out on a James Bond theme song to another famous musician: Billie Eilish. The “Shape of You” singer revealed the disappointment he felt after beginning to write the theme song for the 2021 Bond film “No Time to Die,” which ultimately went to Eilish. Sheeran revealed that when original […]
AT HIGH POINT MARKET — During the pandemic shutdown, millions of people transformed a bedroom or corner of the family room into a working home office. Two and a half years later, many employees have adopted a permanent, or perhaps hybrid, work schedule, prompting renewed attention to the home office category and desks that function […]
Novelists, bloggers, and beginners alike are invited to attend the Southwest Michigan Writers’ Conference , this Saturday, October 22nd, at the Niles District Library beginning at 10 a.m. This all-day event is a joint effort between six area libraries, where presenters will break down the steps to successful writing and publishing, “to empower local writers.” […]
The late Christopher Hitchens, remembered as an intellectual and influential journalist possessed of a quick mind and capacity for cynical derision, is still quoted, “Everyone has a book in them and that, in most cases, is where it should stay.” Wildly successful novelist Jody Picoult, known for building a dramatic storyline around moral dilemma, reportedly […]
Several months ago, we at Knight Edge Media had heard from a source on set that several of the episodes of Netflix’s upcoming live-action adaption of Avatar: The Last Airbender had been written by Emily Kim . However, we could not verify with a second source, thus citing the story as a rumor. Kim is […]
James Cameron worked for a year on an Avatar: The Way of Water script, which he ended up throwing away. With an impressive slate of films behind him including Titanic, The Terminator, Aliens, and Avatar, Cameron has four sequels to Avatar in the works. The Oscar-winning director created the highest-grossing movie of all time with […]
