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...
Write to Reel

Providing a step in the write direction

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.

Join our established screenwriting community

Dedicated to expanding the skills of all interested screenwriters

Most Popular

Horror Month 2021: Week 4

This is the final week of Horror Month, but don't forget to check out the earlier installments like Week 3. It's the final week for #HorrorMonth and I actually have a few recommends...

Insomnia – Give your thriller detective things to do!

An excerpt from my script review for Insomnia (2002) which will be available 10/17/22: 2.) Plot Stability The tone is set pretty early on. We’re given a sexy little scene of a woman’s body being...

Wonka – So you wanna write a musical…

An excerpt from my script review for Wonka which will be available 01/08/24: 4.) Dialogue and Description Here’s where we’re going to spend most of our time. Pitching a spec script is quite the challenge. Pitching...

Equalizer 3 – The Final Installment?

I don’t remember much about Equalizer 2 only that I enjoyed it, and it had Pedro Pascal as the main villain. That came out 5 years ago. So, about a year less...

Shutter Island – NOT the kind of contained we mean.

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...

The Fly – Old School Love Triangle

An excerpt from my script review for The Fly which will be available 11/07/22: 3.) Quality of Characters Good character connections. Veronica. A Lois Lane type, if you will. She’s a smart reporter that’s out to...

John Wick: Chapter 4 – Why do we like this franchise?

An excerpt from my script review for John Wick: Chapter 4 which will be available 12/18/23: 1.) Marketability of the Idea John.  Wick. Those two words right there are enough explanation for this section if...

Write to Reals – McQuarrie’s The Wolverine

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...

Movie Reviews