An excerpt from my script review for The Invisible Man (2020) which will be available 04/20/26:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
To be clear, I’ve never read the novel by H.G. Wells.
I’ve also never...
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...
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.
Script: Green Lantern by Greg Berlanti, Michael Green, Marc Guggenheim & Michael Goldenberg
Logline: A test pilot is granted an alien ring that bestows him with otherworldly powers, as well as membership...
Hi all.
When I first heard about this film, I was interested. The story of the Iran Hostage Crisis hits a personal note with me in that my birthday shares that same...
Hank here.
Headed back to Amazon Studios to check out another script that they seem to be excited about.
Today's pick is Touching Blue (which I thought was about someone jumping high and touching...
Hi all and welcome to your weekend. (Thanks for spending a bit of it with us.)
Today's project is a vampire comedy filled with sarcasm and critique of the genre.
Draculette by Ervin...
An excerpt from my script review for If I Stay which will be available 8/25/14:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
It's based on a book.
That little factoid alone will generate reads with folks in...
My love of Mandy is no secret. In fact, I just recently bought yet another official Mandy t-shirt, making my number now up to 3 Mandy shirts. And if I had the...
An excerpt from my script review for The Equalizer Script which will be available 9/29/14:
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1.) Marketability of the Idea
It's a...
An excerpt from our article Tips to Novelize Your Scripts which will be available 09/21/15:
What are the benefits of converting your screenplay to a novel?
The first benefit is that it will get...
