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...
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...
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.
(And check out Week 2 first!)
Slumber Party Massacre – This one was surprisingly not that bad. It’s a SyFy original movie, so of course I was expecting the worst, but I ended...
An excerpt from my script review for The Mummy by Jon Spaihts which will be available 11/14/23:
2.) Plot Stability
Okay, here’s the major difference…
In the final film, the Mummy is of an Egyptian...
An excerpt from my script review for Elemental (2023) which will be available 11/21/23:
2.) Plot Stability
It started off well enough.
The idea of these two fire elementals going to Elemental City for a...
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...
Vesper – Not exactly a horror film, more dystopian sci-fi. But it does have some horror elements to it that were pretty good. The film in general was actually pretty good. Mutated plant...
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...
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 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...
