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...
An excerpt from my script review for Sinners which will be available 03/03/26:
2.) Plot Stability
The script opens a bit differently from the film.
Here we’re presented with a burned man running from a...
An excerpt from my script review for A Minecraft Movie which will be available 02/24/26:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
Minecraft.
My kids played it. You or your kids probably played it.
I tried playing it...
God, what is that smell? Did you shit yourself? Something is in the air. Oh wait, I know what it is. It’s love. Love is in the air again and it smells...
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.
Michael Bay, he really hasn’t grown much as a director, has he? Like me wrapping presents. I do it every year, yet I never seem to get any better at it.
Not growing...
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...
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...
Hi all.
Our first ever contest is now closed for Public Entries.
Best of luck to the entrants, and STAY TUNED for the winners!
$100 entry fee (also includes detailed notes from Hank).
10 spots total,...
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...
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 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...
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...
