An excerpt from my script review for Roofman which will be available 04/06/26:
5.) Format
This Saturday I had absolutely nothing going on.
Brought the boy home from college Friday afternoon, and he spent all...
An excerpt from my script review for Captain Blood (1994) which will be available 04/01/26:
2.) Plot Stability
My biggest complaint, aside from the similarities in the previous section?
Way too many sea battles.
Listen, I...
Here's the Captain's Top 10 Films of 2025!
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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...
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 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...
An excerpt from Reals' script review for I.S.S. which will be available 01/28/24:
What Worked
The First Page - I like they way this opens - with a bit of text reading:
Right now aboard the...
Week three here for free!
Don’t forget, each week I’ll give a quick rundown of what I watched and thought of them, usually on Sunday is when I post those. But if you...
An excerpt from my script review for Elysium which will be available 05/19/25:
3.) Quality of Characters
Wow…I was really surprised that this script wasn’t reviewed before…
Going back through the thread for it, there’s...
An excerpt from my script review for Deadpool and Wolverine which will be available 12/10/24:
2.) Plot Stability
It’s said that the line is blurred on where Ryan Reynolds ends and Deadpool begins.
Although both...
Do I really want to end the year with an Aquaman review? Or depending on how quickly I can get this out, starting the new year off with an Aquaman review.
Either way,...
An excerpt from my script review for Die Hard (1988) which will be available 11/06/23:
4.) Dialogue and Description
Here’s where I was most impressed.
We’re constantly arguing to make your description memorable, using subtext...
An excerpt from my script review for Species which will be available 11/05/24:
2.) Plot StabilityTwo major issues here I wanted to discuss.The first is what I referred to as I read as...
