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...
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...
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...
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.
I got a long list to get through, so no stalling. These are just some of the worst films I’ve seen in 2021. Exempt are almost every Bruce Willis stinker I managed...
Thank you for coming! Thanks for being here! We have got one hell of a show tonight! Welcome to the first ever and probably the last Golden Cagey Awards! The Cagey’s as...
If you’re looking for a horror comedy this month, Amazon Prime has you covered.
https://youtu.be/vNm3VPPKEQI
After watching the trailer for this teen 80’s time traveling slasher, I was not amused. The humor did not...
An excerpt from my script review for The Good Nurse which will be available 12/12/22:
2.) Plot Stability
The overall question I had with the plot, initially, was how could this happen?
Death after death...
An excerpt from my script review for First Blood which will be available 04/30/24:
3.) Quality of Characters
Will Teasle.
Nothing in this script happens without him.
Think about that…we don’t get to see just how...
An excerpt from my script review for Nightmare Alley which will be available 01/10/22:
3.) Quality of Characters
Stan’s an antihero.
We get that once he sets Pete up.
(A fact I feel was pretty glossed...
(And don't forget to check out Week 1!)
Coming Home In The Dark – New Zealand based horror film and not Australia like I thought. Still, I enjoyed it, but found myself not...
An excerpt from Reals' Fresh Blood 2022 script review for The Lock-In which will be available 12/04/22:
What Worked
The White Space - There's was lots of white space and the read went very quickly,...
