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Finally! I did something this week that I'm very proud of, even though there are some people who will read this and are able to do this like every month. I finished a screenplay. Yes, I did. It's 90 pages long and it's still in rough draft form. But it has a beginning, a middle and an end. It ...

Thursday night, I was lined up to see "The Dark Knight Rises." I was back in Florida after a week in San DIego for Comic-Con there, and I could not wait to see the conclusion of a trilogy featuring my favorite comic book character. As I left the theater that night, I had no idea that less than 2, ...

Several of my friends expect Bruce Wayne to kick the oxygen habit in "The Dark Knight Rises," the final installment in Christopher Nolan’s trilogy of Batman movies. And when you think about it, it makes sense. "Batman Begins" presents the idea that Bruce needs to transcend mere humanity because ...

When I first met Bryant Griffin, it was in the newsroom at a Tampa Tribune bureau office. I was the editor of one of the Tribune's weekly community papers, and Bryant was a page designer who was very quiet, and unhappy about the fact our newsroom used PCs instead of Macs. The person who introduc ...

First off, I want to profusely thank Michael Hinman for giving me the opportunity to write a weekly column about my first film school experiences at Airlock Alpha. Michael is one of the kindest and most hilarious guys I know, and it’s an honor to get to post on Airlock Alpha. Just like a lot o ...

Beginning next week, Airlock Alpha is welcoming a special guest columnist to our ranks to talk about what we all have to have some interest in, or we wouldn't be here: filmmaking. Adam Barnard is an incoming North Carolina high school senior who was chosen to participate in a couple of classes th ...

This is America, and we almost mold our lives on making money. But usually, we make money because whatever it is we have to offer has become more valuable than when we first obtained it. Yet, I think some of those ideals are lost as the original Galileo shuttlecraft from the original "Star Trek" ...