Category: Script Reviews

Knives Out – Structure Amateurs Shouldn’t Emulate

An excerpt from my script review for Knives Out which will be available 12/02/19: 4.) Dialogue and Description We’re going to skip past the description since it was decent enough to get the job...

21 Bridges – More than just dirty cops to clean up.

An excerpt from my script review for 21 Bridges which will be available 11/25/19: 4.) Dialogue and Description The dialogue was forced NYC dialect with all the slang and abbreviations. In addition to that, it was hard to...

Write to Reals – The Apology (Fresh Blood 2019)

An excerpt from Reals' script review for The Apology which will be available 11/18/19: The story is about a retired schoolteacher who has spent 30 years searching for her missing daughter, only to...

Ford v Ferrari – Dealing with Technical Action Sequences

An excerpt from my script review for Ford v Ferrari which will be available 11/20/19: 4.) Dialogue and Description What do you do if you have a “technical” style of action/description that doesn’t read...

Doctor Sleep – Understand Your Medium

An excerpt from my script review for Doctor Sleep which will be available 11/12/19: 3.) Quality of Characters Understand the medium you’re working in. When writing a novel you can take all the time in...

Harriet – Dialogue that makes you truly consider where we’ve come from.

An excerpt from my script review for Harriet which will be available 11/04/19: 4.) Dialogue and Description The description was fine, but what hit me was some of the dialogue. Page 72: HARRIET & SLAVES (OVER)So...

Write to Reals: Countdown (2019) – What it did Right!

An excerpt from Reals' script review for Countdown which will be available 10/28/19: What Worked The Length - It is good that this was only a 95 page script. For a horror, typically you should...

The Lighthouse – The HORROR…of masturbation.

An excerpt from my script review for The Lighthouse which will be available 10/28/19: 5.) Format A bit to cover here. First… NOTE: This film must be photographed on black and white 35mm negative. Aspect ratio: 1.19:1 Audio mix: Mono Please…please…please don’t...