The Invisible Man – Mine that public domain!

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...

Send Help – The same, only different.

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...

Roofman – Could Channing save it?

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...

What Could Have Been: Captain Blood Reboot (1994)

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...

10 Best Films of 2025 – aka 4th Annual Cagey Awards!!!

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...

Marty Supreme – Was Chalamet stuck in character?

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...
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Free Guy – “Natural” Writing

An excerpt from my script review for Free Guy which will be available 08/23/21: 2.) Plot Stability This was a well written script. Was it the best script I’ve ever read? No. Is it the most...

The Beast of Bedburg – Reals tackles the Grey List!

An excerpt from Reals' script review for The Beast of Bedburg (Grey List 2023) which will be available 03/13/23: Hi All! I’m filling in for Hank today with a script from the new “Grey...

What Could Have Been: Red Palms (Vintage 1993 Action)

An excerpt from my script review for Red Palms (Unproduced Action script) which will be available 07/17/24: 2.) Plot Stability My biggest issue here was that it took too long to get Tommy and...

All the Old Knives – A 3way take!

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....

Write to Reals – Cub (2014)

An excerpt from Reals' script review for Cub which will be available 05/09/21: What Worked The Page Count - At 89 pages the script knows how to get in and get out. We are already...

Dune (2021) – Bad classification of a Good project?

An excerpt from my script review for Dune which will be available 10/25/21: 1.) Marketability of the Idea One of the mistakes I think a lot of people make is thinking Dune will be...

Write to Reals: Lou (2022)

An excerpt from Reals' script review for Lou which will be available 10/23/22: What Needed Work The Page Length - This comes in at 115 pages (114 plus the title page) which made me hesitate....

Oxygen – Cool example of Contained

An excerpt from my script review for Oxygen which will be available 05/12/21: 2.) Plot Stability It was a cool little story. The thing to remember about contained plots is… Make mountains out of mole hills. I...

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