An excerpt from my script review for The Invisible Man (2020) which will be available 04/20/26:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
To be clear, I’ve never read the novel by H.G. Wells.
I’ve also never...
An excerpt from my script review for Send Help which will be available 04/14/26:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
Give me the same, only different. – Sam Raimi
Misery meets Castaway was in all the comments on the...
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!
(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...
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.
Amateur Script: b>Vampire Prison by Peggy
Logline: In a soon to be closed decrepit, island prison off the coast of Seattle an ancient vampire buried for a hundred years is awakened. Can a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
