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...
An excerpt from my script review for Superman (2025) which will be available 02/09/26:
2.) Plot Stability
The thing I liked about this, and Matt Reeves The Batman, is that we’re moving away from including...
The Captain's List is in!!!
25. The Phoenician Scheme – It was reminding me a lot of Wes Anderson’s older films, before he got heavy into making films that seem more like plays. But I’d...
An excerpt from my script review for Weapons which will be available 01/20/26:
3.) Quality of Characters
Before we go too far into this…
Maddie’s voice over in the beginning.
She opens the story, but then...
An excerpt from my script review for Anaconda which will be available 01/13/26:
2.) Plot Stability
This felt very Jaws like, in that there’s a lot of eerie shit going on and we don’t...
An excerpt from my script review for KPop Demon Hunters which will be available 12/31/25:
https://youtu.be/LW9QJIT_T-A
Summer 2025. New Smyrna Beach, FL.
Now if you remember the previous family summer vacation we witnessed the glory...
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 Dumb and Dumber To which will be available 11/29/14:
2.) Plot Stability
This script read like Blake Snyder's dream for a comedy.
Catalyst (Page 15) - Harry...
An excerpt from The Captain's film review of Pixels which will be available 8/16/15:
He called the shit poop!
The short this is based on is great, everyone check it out if you haven’t...
Hi all, and welcome to another week.
Hope no one has a case of the Mondays.
Today we're taking a look at one of those types of scripts with a twist that gets Roy...
Need an easy format for a synopsis that will also work when pitching your script? Make sure to demonstrate you understand plot!
No need to fear, we're here to help.
https://youtu.be/A8NGqvYm0Pg
(Here's Part 2 of this year's Halloween Double Feature, and don't miss Part 1's Script Review.)
Dog will hunt!
Lick my plate, you dog dick!
You just had to learn about sex. S-C-E-X!
The...
I’m finding it really hard to come up with anything negative to say about this film. I mean, there’s a few nitpicks I could have and sure, I had my hesitations beforehand...
An excerpt from my script review for American Ultra which will be available 8/24/15:
4.) Dialogue and Description
Here we go!
The description is BY FAR the best part of this script.
Funny. Playful. ...
Hi all.
Two quick bits of housekeeping before we get to the links for this week.
First, starting Monday July 23 Roy and I have decided to switch to a Monday through Friday script...
