An excerpt from my script review for Send Help which will be available 04/14/26:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
Give me the same, only different. – Sam Raimi
Misery meets Castaway was in all the comments on the...
An excerpt from my script review for Roofman which will be available 04/06/26:
5.) Format
This Saturday I had absolutely nothing going on.
Brought the boy home from college Friday afternoon, and he spent all...
An excerpt from my script review for Captain Blood (1994) which will be available 04/01/26:
2.) Plot Stability
My biggest complaint, aside from the similarities in the previous section?
Way too many sea battles.
Listen, I...
Here's the Captain's Top 10 Films of 2025!
(With a few Nic Cage special mentions.)
4th Annual Golden Cagey Awards!
Nicholas Cage is here again, celebrating another year of The Golden Cagey Awards. And once...
An excerpt from my script review for Marty Supreme which will be available 03/17/26:
3.) Quality of Characters
So why didn’t I care about the story?
Marty’s a prick, plain and simple.
We’re told, as amateur...
An excerpt from my script review for The Lost Boys (1987) which will be available 03/09/26:
4.) Dialogue and Description
So…my biggest complaint with the script…
Page 14:
A loud rock group performs.
Talk about underselling it!!!
This...
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.
An excerpt from my script review for Triple 9 which will be available 8/25/14:
3.) Quality of Characters
If your story has a large list of characters, remember to serve them to your reader...
Go ahead, say what you will about Mel Gibson as a person. I’m willing to look past all of that and focus on one thing and one thing only. The man is...
Let’s face it, no one cares about Greg Sestero. He isn’t a terrible actor I’d say, just a very bland one. People aren’t clambering over one another to see a film with...
Hi all.
Hopefully you've had a chance to see the new Top Ten list, over to the right in the sidebar or on our forums.
Anyway, here's what we're planning for next week.
Monday 9/3
Forgetting...
An excerpt from my script review for Bright which will be available 01/01/18:
4.) Dialogue and Description
In typical Landis fashion, the description was entertaining.
However, there are parts to emulate, and parts to avoid...
I know this isn’t exactly a horror film, but it is about a monster going around eating people, so I say it counts.
One thing I can say about the film right...
An excerpt from my script review for Ghost in the Shell which will be available 04/03/17:
2.) Plot Stability
Being perfectly blunt, I fell asleep 3 times while reading this…in the middle of the...
An excerpt from my script review for Nautica which will be available 2/23/15:
2.) Plot Stability
Very sound plot.
Like I mentioned above, I was kept on my toes the entire time trying to figure...
