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.
An excerpt from my script review for Searching (2018) which will be available 06/03/19:
2.) Plot Stability
From the get go we’re thrown into the “computer style” that plays out like an early 90s...
https://youtu.be/w3ugHP-yZXw
I want to get this out of the way now. I thought this film was terrible. You won’t have to read through page after page of my ranting and raving just to...
Recently I’ve been watching this guy’s Youtube channel where he hoards up on blurays and DVDs. And it got me thinking about my own collection. I used to have a pretty extensive...
An excerpt from my script review for Sicario which will be available 11/02/15:
4.) Dialogue and Description
Dialogue was a real issue for me.
The whole Alejandro voice-over could easily be left out. The...
The Captain tortures himself with what was meant to be a family friendly review. Naturally, things go wrong...
Nine Lives
It’s been a few weeks since I’ve done a review and I thought...
Logline: In 1979, a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast find themselves...
Happy Sunday one and all.
Today we're taking a look at a project, that isn't necessarily bad, but gives us a good example of one thing, the importance of the logline.
Let's take a...
Part 2 of our Super Duper Special Halloween 3 Double Feature!
(Don't miss Part One.)
And now, The Captain's review of this classic, classic film...
https://youtu.be/zKNIqG9J2KU
It’s that time of year again, time to watch Season...
