Author Archives: Richard

The Heart of “The Hunger Games”

In my thinking, the adaptations that do the best job are the ones that don’t necessarily stick to every detail that was in the book, and don’t necessarily toss out everything that isn’t purely cinematic, but rather twist and trim in the service of a different ideal: being as faithful as the movie can be to the heart and soul of the book. Or, put another way, to the message that the book is trying to impart. Continue reading

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Oh, the traffic conditions you’ll see!

It takes a lot to cause traffic on the 134. And by “it takes a lot”, I mean there are many and varied ways that traffic happens on this damn road. Continue reading

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Incoming

Been a busy couple of weeks here at MoonHill Productions. Colleen and Junie have been busy building a documentary feature film as well as budgeting out our own next project. I’ve been writing two scripts and taking the first steps … Continue reading

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Reprinted Post: A Doctor on Transvaginal Ultrasounds

Where Is The Physician Outrage?

Right. Here.

I’m speaking, of course, about the required-transvaginal-ultrasound thing that seems to be the flavor-of-the-month in politics. Continue reading

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More UnCleverness

As a bit of a follow-up to my post the other week about dialogue (and, really, the post last week about Characterization), I’d like to point everyone over to a great piece over on io9 written by Charlie Jane Anders: … Continue reading

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