Bill Johnson reviews popular movies like Groundhog Day, Lethal Weapon, and Die Hard to set out principles of storytelling.

Many writers new to screenwriting are doing what they think should be done. These reviews take new writers into the foundation of these films, exploring in a step by step fashion how each film told its story in a way that found and satisfied a large audience.

Bill Johnson is author of A Story is a Promise & The Spirit of Storytelling, a popular writing workbook.