When being a first-time filmmaker there is nearly constant pressure to make your project ambitious as to stand out in the crowd. It has to be the most clever, the most interesting, and the most unique if it ever has a chance of being noticed by a studio. What that tends to lead to though [...]

In just the last year I have been introduced to well-crafted murder mysteries, with classics like Murder on the Orient Express and Then There Were None, and taken to them like a fish to water. These films combined with my constant searches for good murder documentaries have had the idea of mysteries as well as murder at [...]

One of the most interesting things a filmmaker can do for their project, as well as the audience, is creating a unique world for the story and characters to inhabit. This can be anything from just one small change that has a greater impact on the world as a whole, introducing an assassin robot to [...]

The murder mystery has been a long-lasting genre that has interested and intrigued audiences from the hard-boiled detective dramas to the slasher genre of the 90s and the 2000s. The Scream franchise, in particular, reignited the popularity of the murder mystery and spawned countless imitators like the well known I know What You Did Last Summer and lesser [...]

There can be movies that set out with an idea in mind that get muddle along the way or just don't know how to see their concept through. Nowadays there is a surplus of movies to feel like there are movies for every type of person, but with so many voices in the world, there [...]