An excerpt from my script review for Star Wars First Draft which will be available 05/04/26:
2.) Plot Stability
When he was trying to launch this new universe, I knew George Lucas had trouble,...
Hi all.
No review today. Instead I wanted to take a bit of time and discuss something that’s been kicking around upstairs for yours truly, and mentioned more frequently in some of the...
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...
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An excerpt from my script review for Arkansas which will be available 08/03/20:
3.) Quality of Characters
Easily the highlight of this script.
“What is the most interesting way your character can say that?”
The above...
Since the Captain is doing a review of John Wick 3 this week (which is freaking great, by the way!) I thought that I might review another action-like piece. OK, full disclosure, this isn't...
An excerpt from my script review for The Green Knight which will be available 08/02/21:
4.) Dialogue and Description
No notes on the dialogue, because there wasn’t much of it.
When the boss asked me...
I was damn well convinced this was a David S. Goyer film. It had all the trappings of one without actually being one. If that makes any sense.
He’s hard to explain, David...
An excerpt from my script review for Unfriended which will be available 11/28/22:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
First off…never click links in unknown emails or texts!
That’s the main lesson from this review!
(He says as...
An excerpt from my script review for Those Who Wish Me Dead which will be available 05/17/21:
3.) Quality of Characters
Hannah.
She had this self destructive streak that seems to go beyond her tragic...
It's that time of year again! I'm of course referring to HORROR MONTH! A whole month where I watch noting but horror movies, review horror movies and... I guess that's about...
I really didn’t think I’d like the first Black Phone movie as much as I did. I don’t know if it was the trailers or the fact it was another Blumhouse film,...
