Horror Month 2025: Week 1

The first week of Horror Month is complete! Here is everything I watched. Feel free to list every horror related movie or series you watched as well, I'm always on the hunt...

What Could Have Been: Vanderbilt’s The Long Walk Adaptation

An excerpt from my script review for The Long Walk (unproduced by James Vanderbilt) which will be available 10/06/25: 2.) Plot Stability Just a reminder, this is for Vanderbilt’s unproduced version and not the...

Horror Month 2025!

It’s that time again, the month of all things spooky, creepy and stinky. Because like every year, I know a majority of the films on this list are going to be real...

Him (2025) – WTF?!…but in a GOOD way!

An excerpt from my script review for Him (aka The Goat) which will be available 09/29/25: 2.) Plot Stability I thoroughly enjoyed this script. Benny is entering Connor’s world, and he feels like he’s by himself, but...

The Sting – Does it still hold up? (…and RIP Robert Redford)

An excerpt from my script review for The Sting (1973) which will be available 09/23/25: 1.) Marketability of the Idea So…this was started yesterday, but mom is visiting from Florida all week. Over the weekend we...

What Could Have Been – Roger Rabbit 2: The Toon Platoon

An excerpt from my script review for Roger Rabbit 2: The Toon Platoon which will be available 09/15/25: 2.) Plot Stability Admittedly I did minimal research before reading this script so as not to persuade my...
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Long Distance (aka Distant) – Implementing Realistic Escalation

An excerpt from my script review for Long Distance which will be available 08/19/25: 2.) Plot Stability The premise of the story is solid. What we’re going to focus on in this section however is...

Top Gun: Maverick – What NOT to do when formatting your script.

An excerpt from my script review for Top Gun: Maverick which will be available 03/20/23: 5.) Format This tip comes from our beloved 3way himself… Be bold after you’re repped. What does that mean? Don’t submit a...

Dune: Part 2 – The Cap’n Weighs In!

If given the option, I never go with IMAX, as it costs a whole hell of a lot more and I hate assigned seating like you’re attending a baseball game or you’re...

Halloween Kills – Welcome back original cast?

If I remember right, I called the 2018 Halloween film the best sequel in the franchise. Aside from Halloween 3 of course. https://writetoreel.com/happy-halloween-2018-the-best-of-all-halloween-sequels This time around I can easily say that Halloween Kills is...

After Yang – Creating good tension for characters.

An excerpt from my script review for After Yang which will be available 05/09/22: 3.) Quality of Characters Here is where we’re going to focus most of our attention. What this script did really well...

Creed III – Fallout VATS for Adonis?

I enjoyed the first two Creed films, mainly because it felt like another continuation of the Rocky series, which I am a big fan of. It was a way to move the...

What Could Have Been: Blade Runner Down

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...

Write to Reals: Crimes of the Future (aka Painkillers)

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...

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