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...
An excerpt from my script review for Prey which will be available 11/10/25:
2.) Plot Stability
This came out during that magical time after Covid that the Cap’n and I were so fond of.
Theaters...
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 Cry Macho which will be available 09/27/21:
3.) Quality of Characters
Remember when he talked to the chair?
https://youtu.be/MsndkdlXyS4
That’s what I get called back to anytime I read/watch...
An excerpt from Reals' script review for The Last Voyage of the Demeter which will be available 08/14/23:
What WorkedClemens - I liked Clemens as our main character - we don’t spend too much...
An excerpt from my script review for 28 Days Later which will be available 07/16/25:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
Tying into the Capn’s review of the 28 Years Later, thought it would be cool to...
An excerpt from my script review for The Water Man which will be available 05/24/21:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
Blood List. Hit List.
Gaining notoriety via one of these lists is a good way to...
An excerpt from my script review for Shutter Island (2010) which will be available 03/12/24:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
We’re constantly telling you to consider writing a contained horror.
Why? Because it’s one of...
An excerpt from my pilot script review for The Morning Show which will be available 01/09/23:
2.) Plot Stability
Granted we don’t review a lot of scripts for TV projects, and I don’t claim...
Here's the first installment of 2023 for The Capn's most beloved time of year...
Slotherhouse – This might partly be my fault, as I never bothered looking at what this was rated. You have...
An excerpt from my script review for X-Men: Days of Future Past which will be available 06/12/24:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
The Littlest and I started watching X-Men ’97 a few weeks ago and really...
