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...
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...
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 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T which will be available 05/13/24:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
According to the initial post, this was the only project ever...
An excerpt from my script review for The Burial (2023) which will be available 11/29/23:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
…doesn’t mean it’ll make for an interesting story.
(Wondered where I was going with that...
An excerpt from my script review for They Cloned Tyrone which will be available 07/19/23:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
This is one of those “list scripts” in that it was on the Blacklist...
Slayers – Let this be a warning to you, if you start a movie and see 10 different production companies that produced it pop up on the screen, just turn the movie off immediately....
(And don't forget to check out Week 1 here!)
Pet Sematary: Bloodlines – I kind of had high hopes for this one, as I am a fan of the Pet Sematary films, or at...
I was very excited to see The Wretched, a new horror take on Rear Window, about a teenage boy facing off with a thousand year-old witch who is posing as “The Woman” next door....
An excerpt from my script review for The Whale which will be available 12/27/22:
2.) Plot Stability
Was this the overwhelmingly best story I’ve read all year?
No.
However, I do feel like the project was more than...
An excerpt from my script review for Cobweb which will be available 09/18/23:
2.) Plot Stability
“The same, only different.”
Arguably one of the most overused and generic statements we’re given (in one form or...
