An excerpt from my script review for The Burial (2023) which will be available 11/29/23:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
…doesn’t mean it’ll make for an interesting story.
(Wondered where I was going with that...
Everyone is ready to celebrate Thanksgiving!
At least, if you’re American, you are. I know Canadians have their own festivities. What do the Brits have? Is it Boxing Day? No, that’s Christmas. I...
An excerpt from my script review for Elemental (2023) which will be available 11/21/23:
2.) Plot Stability
It started off well enough.
The idea of these two fire elementals going to Elemental City for a...
An excerpt from my script review for The Mummy by Jon Spaihts which will be available 11/14/23:
2.) Plot Stability
Okay, here’s the major difference…
In the final film, the Mummy is of an Egyptian...
An excerpt from my script review for Die Hard (1988) which will be available 11/06/23:
4.) Dialogue and Description
Here’s where I was most impressed.
We’re constantly arguing to make your description memorable, using subtext...
I like David Gordon Green as a filmmaker, he reminds me a bit of Richard Linklater, where you can’t really nail him down to just one genre.
David Gordon Green goes back and...
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...
Hi all.
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...
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....
An excerpt from my script review for A Nightmare on Elm Street 6 (Unproduced) which will be available 04/27/18:
What Needs Work
...Note - A fun game to play with this script is to...
