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...
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...
Here's the Captain's Top 10 Films of 2025!
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4th Annual Golden Cagey Awards!
Nicholas Cage is here again, celebrating another year of The Golden Cagey Awards. And once...
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...
An excerpt from my script review for The Lost Boys (1987) which will be available 03/09/26:
4.) Dialogue and Description
So…my biggest complaint with the script…
Page 14:
A loud rock group performs.
Talk about underselling it!!!
This...
An excerpt from my script review for Sinners which will be available 03/03/26:
2.) Plot Stability
The script opens a bit differently from the film.
Here we’re presented with a burned man running from a...
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 The Wendigo (1970) which will be available 09/12/22:
5.) Format
This script had a lot going for it, but here’s where I want to spend the bulk...
An excerpt from Reals' script review for The Wolfman (Dark Universe) which will be available 01/23/23:
What Needs Work
So Many Camera Directions - Just on Page 1, we have everything from: CLOSE ON, to...
An excerpt from my script review for Marlowe (2022) which will be available 02/27/23:
2.) Plot Stability
The importance to starting STRONG!
Now, we’re not ol’ Billy Monahan with the success of writing The Departed under our...
Here it is...
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Dark Harvest – This was the one I was most excited for after watching the trailer. Which could only mean one thing: it was...
An excerpt from my script review for Spider-Man: No Way Home which will be available 01/31/22:
2.) Plot Stability
First and foremost, let me start by saying I enjoyed this film.
All the “fan service”...
An excerpt from my script review for The Bokeriders which will be available 07/01/24:
2.) Plot Stability
At best, this felt like episode one of a documentary miniseries that we’ll never see the rest...
While trying to come up with a movie to team up with Hank with, I ran into a YouTube video talking about horror movies no one has seen. Usually I’ve seen every...
An excerpt from Reals' script review for Memory (2022) which will be available 07/11/22:
What Worked
The Opening - I really like this opening, where a gangster is killed when he visits his elderly mother...
