Craig Thomas

The Great British Bake Off is dead. Long live The Great British Bake Off.

If there's one Tom Cruise movie you have to see this year, it's American Made.

Is it time for Jeremy Corbyn to throw in the towel?

Sometimes, writing is hard. Not hard in the same way digging a ditch is hard, or keeping a polite demeanour whilst an obnoxious customer harangues you for merely existing is hard, but it is hard. Sometimes it feels like an endless slog, or…

Currently in the middle of its second season, the USA Network has confirmed that Mr. Robot has been renewed for a third season. Focusing on troubled computer genius Elliot Alderson (played by Rami Malek) and Anonymous-inspired hacktivist…

Everyone has to start somewhere, right? Even Usain Bolt had to learn to walk before he could run, so why would screenwriting be any different? It isn't. The road to better writing contains many pitfalls of various shapes and sizes, which…

For those who's thirst for all things Harry Potter has not been sufficiently quenched by the release of Cursed Child, here is the Olympics trailer for Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them. Taking the action to 1920s-era New York City, it…

Screenwriting books are a lot like self-help books. Once you've read one, you've read them all. But a lot of screenwriters are like people who read self-help books; always looking for “the one”. They didn't learn anything substantial from…

The latest series of Red Dwarf will start on 22nd September, at 9pm, on the Dave TV channel. The new outing from the boys from the Dwarf will be third instalment since the classic sitcom was revived by the channel, after the first eight…

It's hard to believe the final Resident movie is nearly upon us. It's just as hard to believe they actually made six of them in the first place. Arriving five years after the previous, it might require the not-so-avid fans having a RE…

The first teaser trailer for Crisis in Six Scenes, the upcoming Amazon show from Woody Allen has appeared online. The show, which will be Allen's first foray into TV, is set in the 1960s, and is a classic slice of his particular brand of…

Following the six-episode “mini-event” that aired aired earlier this year, Fox is apparently in “significant talks” with stars David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, and creator, Chris Carter to make further episodes. Despite the mixed reception…

Punk legends NOFX have announced the release date, artwork, and the first song, from their upcoming album, First Ditch Effort. With a release date set for October 7th, this will be the band's first full-length release since 2012's…

So, the new Ghostbusters film has released its version of the original theme song, and like everything else about this reboot, it doesn't fail to disappoint. Loosely based on the Ray Parker Jr. song for the original movie, this “cover” (for…

The problem with writing is that nearly everyone can do it. Add this to the fact that most people have seen a lot of movies, and it is easy to think that because of these two things you can easily write a better screenplay than most of the…

It isn't unusual for a studio to hire different screenwriters to carry out additional works on scripts both before and during filming. Indeed, the process is actually quite common. Often, the person doing the rewrite will get a credit…

Another year, another Woody Allen film, another comment about a return to form. Although he has been busy working on an as yet untitled TV project for Netflix (his first foray into TV), this first trailer suggests this might be one of his…

Welcome to Earth, again. 20th Century Fox have dropped the second trailer for Independence Day: Resurgence and it is exactly what you were expecting. Plenty of iconic buildings are destroyed (“they like to go for the landmarks”, quips Jeff…

The second redband trailer for Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates has dropped and boy, is it blue. Very NSFW, it expands upon on the first redband trailer, which sees chaotic bachelor brothers Mick and Dave (Adam DeVine and Zac Efron,…

Following the success of Birdman and Spotlight, Michael Keaton returns as the man who made McDonald's what it is today (for better or worse). For those who don't know the story, it might come as a surprise that Keaton is not called…