‘And then’ is no way to tell a story

We should think about what we need to do to make our goals become a natural consequence of our daily actions.

There are a lot of ways moviemakers try to cover up lazy or unimaginative storytelling — and I put an emphasis on the word “try.”

As a parent, there are times when you will be forced to do self-loathingly unconscionable things out of love for your children. For example, because young children clearly have low standards for what constitutes good moviemaki…