An excerpt from my script review for Weapons which will be available 01/20/26:
3.) Quality of Characters
Before we go too far into this…
Maddie’s voice over in the beginning.
She opens the story, but then...
An excerpt from my script review for Anaconda which will be available 01/13/26:
2.) Plot Stability
This felt very Jaws like, in that there’s a lot of eerie shit going on and we don’t...
An excerpt from my script review for KPop Demon Hunters which will be available 12/31/25:
https://youtu.be/LW9QJIT_T-A
Summer 2025. New Smyrna Beach, FL.
Now if you remember the previous family summer vacation we witnessed the glory...
An excerpt from my script review for Is This Thing On? which will be available 12/22/25:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
I forget exactly where I read it, but this is loosely based on...
An excerpt from my script review for The Cabin in the Woods which will be available 12/08/25:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
Have you ever stopped to think that a title works as a...
An excerpt from my script review for The Running Man which will be available 11/19/25:
2.) Plot Stability
With a few minor exceptions, this script follows the 1987 version of the film pretty closely.
One...
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.
An excerpt from my script review for Crawl which will be available 07/22/19:
2.) Plot
Stability
Initially, as the
gator was chasing Haley around, I’m thinking, “There’s only so much ‘cat and
mouse’ you can do under...
I never expected going into Matrix Resurrections that I’d be watching and reviewing possibly the worst film of 2021.
This movie should have stayed dead.
In preparation for the new Matrix movie, I finally...
It looks like 2023 was the year for bad movies. And it was the year of movies that people loved and for some reason I hated. But really that could be said...
An excerpt from my script review for Midsommar which will be available 07/08/19:
4.) Dialogue and Description
The dialogue was dreadful.
So. Many. Filler. Words.
If this is your first review with us, let me elaborate. “Filler” refers...
An excerpt from my script review for Finch which will be available 12/29/21:
2.) Plot Stability
Hitting your beats.
Save the Cat is probably the most read book about screenwriting.
In it Blake Snyder discussed how most...
Hey All!
Since we have all been slacking a bit on the Horror Month this year, I thought I would go ahead and get a jump on starting the discussion for our final...
An excerpt from Reals' script review for Unfriended 2014 which will be available 06/12/22:
Filling in for Hank this week (and posting a little early as a treat for all you readers!) and...
An excerpt from my script review for Nobody which will be available 04/19/21:
2.) Plot Stability
First of all, my single complaint was that the Russian Mobster angle felt kind of cliché.
Thinking of those two previous...
