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...
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American Ultra – Stoners Only?

An excerpt from The Captain's movie review for American Ultra which will be available 8/30/15. Will it be funny enough for his tastes? Mike and Phoebe (Kristen Stewart’s character) are madly in love. They...

The Neon Demon – Cap’n Takes a Piss

I think it was Chris Matthews who said this about Sarah Palin when she first got introduced to the world. If you like this type of thing, then this is the type...

Top 10 WORST Films of 2019 – The Captain’s List!

I had a plan for my top 10 list this year, but that plan fell apart, mostly because it relied on how bad Cats really was. The issue with that however, is...

Terminator Genisys – Why is Skynet so Stupid?

An excerpt from my script review for Terminator Genisys which will be available 07/20/15: 2.) Plot Stability This script checked all the boxes, plot-wise, but I can’t shake the feeling we’ve seen this all...

The Descendants – Script Review

Hi all. This one's long overdue, I know. Let's get right into it. Will this script be a gem of a sale that everyone's talking about, or a diamond in the rough left for the...

Hunter Review (Predator)

Hi all. Thanks to one of our forum regulars, CEMartin2 (some of you may remember his Mythical project), for bringing back the reader review for Thursday. Today he's taking our 9 questions structure and...

Wonder Woman – Better than Marvel?

As much of a fan as I am of the Fast and Furious films, I don't remember Gal Gadot being in them. Of course when she did those films, no one has...

IT – Not Everyone’s a Fan

Is it too much to ask for a horror film to be scary these days? Seeing as Annabelle: Creation is the only other horror film out in theaters right now, maybe it...

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