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.
Where did we leave off after Parabellum? Does anyone remember?
To recap, John Wick, an unstoppable killing machine, gets shot off a building by his trusted friend Winston played by Ian McShane one...
An excerpt from my script review for In the Heights which will be available 06/28/21:
3.) Quality of Characters
So following along with my initial thought from the last section, we knew where this...
An excerpt from my script review for Green Street Hooligans which will be available 02/21/23:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
Proper. Football.
Now, I’m not here to argue you shouldn’t love American football over “soccer”...
An excerpt from my script review for Fear Street Part One: 1994 which will be available 10/11/21:
3.) Quality of Characters
Generic Baddies.
Holly. Hooded Figure. Nightwing Killer.
First off, all I could think of when...
To familiarize myself with the story so far in this new Halloween trilogy, I went back to check out the other two films. But not just any standard cut, as I was...
An excerpt from my script review for Blade Runner Down which will be available 03/06/23:
2.) Plot Stability
This section was my biggest complaint with the script.
So the whole script revolves around Deckard needing...
An excerpt from Reals' script review for Crimes of the Future which will be available 06/27/22:
Hi All!
Excited today to check out a draft of a long-gestating Cronenberg project: Crimes of the Future!
This is...
An excerpt from 3way's script review for All the Old Knives which will be available 05/04/22:
I think it is worth mentioning that this draft is from 2014, so quite a while ago....
