An excerpt from my script review for A Minecraft Movie which will be available 02/24/26:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
Minecraft.
My kids played it. You or your kids probably played it.
I tried playing it...
God, what is that smell? Did you shit yourself? Something is in the air. Oh wait, I know what it is. It’s love. Love is in the air again and it smells...
An excerpt from my script review for Superman (2025) which will be available 02/09/26:
2.) Plot Stability
The thing I liked about this, and Matt Reeves The Batman, is that we’re moving away from including...
The Captain's List is in!!!
25. The Phoenician Scheme – It was reminding me a lot of Wes Anderson’s older films, before he got heavy into making films that seem more like plays. But I’d...
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...
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.
This year has kind of been a bust for movies. And some movies I thought I’d love ended up being giant disappointments. You’ll eventually see those films on my Worst of 2021...
An excerpt from my script review for Spiderhead which will be available 07/25/22:
What Worked
Steve Abnesti - I liked Abnesti as a villain, because he was really charismatic, but you could tell something was...
An excerpt from Reals' script review for Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery which will be available 01/01/23:
What Worked
The Puzzle Box - It is an interesting opening and a fun way to introduce...
An excerpt from Reals' script review for Christopher McQuarrie's early draft of The Wolverine which will be available 07/07/24:
What Worked
Some Good Description - Even though this is too long, I like what the...
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 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...
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...
