The Invisible Man – Mine that public domain!

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...

Send Help – The same, only different.

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...

Roofman – Could Channing save it?

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...

What Could Have Been: Captain Blood Reboot (1994)

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...

10 Best Films of 2025 – aka 4th Annual Cagey Awards!!!

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...

Marty Supreme – Was Chalamet stuck in character?

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...
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PECK

Hi all. Welcome to another Saturday Edition of Hank Unleashed. Today's script take's us down to the Florida Everglades in search of the ivory-billed woodpecker. Interestingly enough, doing a bit of research, I found out...

3 Days on Santorini

Hi all. Hope you're all enjoying your Saturday, with the kids watching cartoons, and spilling milk out of their cereal bowls. (Or maybe you're the "kid" doing that as you read this.) Today...

Judgement Date Script Review

Script: Judgement Date by Ed Love Logline: When a wrongly convicted death row inmate gets a chance at freedom on the live comeback TV show of a disgraced Idol judge, he gradually turns...

Overhaul – Script Review

Hi all. I know we said we'd be switching to pro scripts, but as I promised Sly I'd get this done, I didn't want to leave him hanging. After reading it, I'm glad I...

Guzikowski’s Friday the 13th (Reboot) – Canceled or just in need of a Retool?

An excerpt from my script review for Guzikowski's Friday the 13th which will be available 03/14/17: 1.) Marketability of the Idea As some of you know, from time to time we take a look at...

Leveraging Our Notes with Agents and Producers

Hi all. Today we have a guest writer sharing with us his experience of what he did after receiving our notes, our friend from the forums, Michael Jennings. Simply put, he received a positive...

Marketing Your Script

Hi all. I was at a loss for what to write about today, and then it was suggested that I talk about marketing a script. (Thanks again to Fejumas for the idea.) This...

Sunday Spotlight – The Playground Part 3

Hi all, and Happy First of July. Wow summer's flying by, especially when you're doing two and sometimes 3 reviews per week. Here we are on part three of our little experiment, known as...

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