MAVERICK STORYTELLING: Agenda Driven Scripts

2019 GRADE D-F MOVIES / MAVERICK STORYTELLING: Agenda Driven Scripts / STAR WARS

MAVERICK REVIEW: Rise of Skywalker (Spoilers!)

I didn’t rush to see The Rise of Skywalker, even though I’m a die-hard Star Wars fan. Through sources and leaks, I pretty much knew the entire storyline and it wasn’t a film I was too excited to see. I did not enter this movie with an unbiased attitude, I […]

MAVERICK STORYTELLING: Agenda Driven Scripts / STAR WARS

THE REAL-LIFE TRAGEDY OF STAR WARS

Star Wars has been a favorite story of mine since I was a kid. Throughout elementary school, I was engulfed by its merchandise. My bedsheets to my lunch box were all Star Wars. I even had their action figures. I was in it, knee-deep. My mom bought me storybooks with […]

2019 GRADE A MOVIES / MAVERICK REVIEWS / MAVERICK STORYTELLING: Agenda Driven Scripts

MAVERICK REVIEW: Richard Jewell (spoilers)

Richard Jewell is the true-life story about an unlikely hero who saved hundreds, possibly thousands of lives, from a bomb that detonated in at Centennial Olympic Park, during the 1997 Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. The media immediately turned Richard Jewell into a folk hero, but that didn’t last very long. […]

2019 GRADE A MOVIES / MAVERICK STORYTELLING: Agenda Driven Scripts

MAVERICK REVIEW: “Us” (spoilers – with warning 1st)

Us is the second theatrical movie to be directed by Jordan Peele, and I have to admit, he produced, wrote, and directed a great movie – once again. Overall, the movie gets a solid A from me despite a LOAD of missteps in the screenplay that I’ll identify later. The […]

MAVERICK REVIEWS / MAVERICK STORYTELLING: Agenda Driven Scripts

MAVERICK SCRIPT REVIEW: Captain Marvel – Agenda Driven? (Spoilers)

I’ll be the first to tell you that it is virtually impossible to pen any script, or to tell any story, without forming a bias. Storytelling by default has a slant, not to mention, an agenda, and there’s really no getting around it. It’s just the nature of the beast. […]