An excerpt from my script review for The Cabin in the Woods which will be available 12/08/25:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
Have you ever stopped to think that a title works as a...
An excerpt from my script review for The Running Man which will be available 11/19/25:
2.) Plot Stability
With a few minor exceptions, this script follows the 1987 version of the film pretty closely.
One...
An excerpt from my script review for Prey which will be available 11/10/25:
2.) Plot Stability
This came out during that magical time after Covid that the Cap’n and I were so fond of.
Theaters...
I really didn’t think I’d like the first Black Phone movie as much as I did. I don’t know if it was the trailers or the fact it was another Blumhouse film,...
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Coyotes - I was hoping for a bit more humor and a lot more gore. Instead, I got annoyed by the...
While trying to come up with a movie to team up with Hank with, I ran into a YouTube video talking about horror movies no one has seen. Usually I’ve seen every...
We break scripts down the Monday after its opening weekend. Read detailed reviews and see what current writers selling scripts are doing right, and sometimes wrong.
I mentioned in my last review that I started getting into anime again and the anime that did it was Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters on Netflix. The plot got me. Godzilla...
An excerpt from my script review for ARRIVAL which will be available 11/14/16:
3.) Quality of Characters
Louise is completely unbelievable.
A woman can’t be an intelligent linguistics professor? Certainly she can.
She can’t then...
An excerpt from my script review for Manchester by the Sea which will be available 12/06/16:
5.) Format
.00025% of the human population has a disorder with their Corpus Callosum, the part of the...
An excerpt from my script review for Ex Machina which will be available 4/27/15:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
Contained sci-fi thriller.
I love it.
This might be partial, coming from yours truly, because one of...
An excerpt from Reals' script review for Drive Away Dykes by Ethan Coen and Tricia Coen which will be available 04/13/18:
What We Can Learn
1.) I always encourage finding your own voice...
Part 2, and the one we've all REALLY been waiting for. The Captain defends his choices for THE WORST films of 2016.
Spoofs. Sequels NOBODY wanted. Generic horror. Oscar...
An excerpt from my script review for IT (2017) which will be available 09/11/17:
4.) Dialogue and Description
With horror, it’s important to build in TENSION.
More importantly, to do so while delivering the opposite...
An excerpt from my script review for Sicario 2: Soldado which will be available 07/02/18:
2.) Plot Stability
Could the Sicario series be the new Taken?
I’m not talking about stealing the plot, but just...
