An excerpt from my script review for Heretic which will be available 11/18/24:
2.) Plot Stability
Having run long in my complaints in the first section, I’m going to try and be more focused...
An excerpt from my script review for Twisters which will be available 11/11/24:
3.) Quality of Characters
There is one character that returns, that I forgot to mention.
The Twister.
This time it even brings along...
What makes a Christmas movie, a Christmas movie? It has long been debated if classics like Die Hard is a Christmas movie. It is. And the same goes to The Nightmare Before...
An excerpt from my script review for Species which will be available 11/05/24:
2.) Plot StabilityTwo major issues here I wanted to discuss.The first is what I referred to as I read as...
From Dusk till Dawn is not only one of my favorite Quentin Tarantino scripts but is hands down Robert Rodriguez’s best work. That isn’t to say this is the best thing QT...
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It’s that magical time of year again when the Cap’n and I do our Halloween Double Feature!
This year we decided on a classic…
1.) Marketability of the Idea
It’s a vampire story.
Two bank...
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.
This makes the third film based on Stephen King’s work I’ve seen this year. Five if you count his shows The Mist and Mr. Mercedes. As for his films, IT, you already...
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We stumbled onto a good list of "don'ts" when pitching your script, but a lot of you have asked what you should do.
When I initially started out, I read a book...
Let’s start horror month off early with Haunt, a feature now on VOD and in (a few) theaters that was written and directed by the creators of A Quiet Place and produced by Eli Roth....
Logline: In 1979, a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast find themselves...
An excerpt from my script review for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri which will be available 11/20/17:
4.) Dialogue and Description
ANGELA
Oh why are you never on my side,
Robbie?
ROBBIE
I’m always on your side when...
I decided to take a look at the pilot script for “From” currently airing on EPIX. We don’t review a lot of pilot scripts here (more on that later) so it felt...
An excerpt from my script review for 1917 which will be available 01/06/20:
3.) Quality of Characters
Before we dive into things for this section, it needs to be stated, I enjoyed this script....
