An excerpt from my script review for Road House which will be available 03/25/24:
2.) Plot Stability
Okay, before we get into the original, did anyone watch the remake?
Don’t let me ruin it for...
If given the option, I never go with IMAX, as it costs a whole hell of a lot more and I hate assigned seating like you’re attending a baseball game or you’re...
An excerpt from my script review for Shutter Island (2010) which will be available 03/12/24:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
We’re constantly telling you to consider writing a contained horror.
Why? Because it’s one of...
An excerpt from my script review for No One Lives (2012) which will be available 03/05/24:
3.) Quality of Characters
Emma and Driver.
We’re presented with this really weird dynamic, which is good, but it’s...
An excerpt from my script review for What Could Have Been: Captain Nemo origin story which will be available 02/19/24:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
Did you know Disney+ was rebooting 20,000 Leagues Under the...
It looks like 2023 was the year for bad movies. And it was the year of movies that people loved and for some reason I hated. But really that could be said...
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.
My script review for our September 2015 Amateur Winner, Black Swarm reviewed 09/28/15:
Hi all.
Winner of our September Amateur Monday Contest has been chosen, and for those of you who haven’t already checked...
Hi all.
Happy Day of Independence! (Day late on the blog, our apologies.)
To all our French readers out there, thank you. And to our English ones…things worked out for the best, right?
The Neon...
An excerpt from my script review for The Accountant which will be available 10/19/16:
3.) Quality of Characters
Two things here.
First, the second scene of the script presents YOUNG BOY and LITTLE BROTHER.
We’re not...
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I can’t remember the first John Woo film I ever saw, was it one of his early English language Hollywood films like Hard Target or one of his many Chinese films, usually...
An excerpt from my script review for Logan Lucky which will be available 08/21/17:
3.) Quality of Characters
Build a network of support for your characters.
Whether blood relations or not, this genre needs to...
An excerpt from my script review for the new TV series Yellowstone which will be available 07/09/18:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
Yellowstone National Park.
Drive in through the eastern entrance and you’ll find yourself...
An excerpt from my script review for Tusk which will be available 10/06/14:
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6.) What I liked...
The idea of Kevin Smith...
An excerpt from my script review for Jurassic Park 4 which will be available 6/22/15:
2.) Plot Stability
To say that this script is “dead’ isn’t entirely true.
Jurassic Park 4 reads like Jurassic World...