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 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...
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...
Hi all, and Happy Saturday.
Today we're taking a look at a zombie comedy, which deals mostly in physical comedy. One of the question I asked myself is how "funny" does a...
(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...
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...
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. ...
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...
Need an easy format for a synopsis that will also work when pitching your script? Make sure to demonstrate you understand plot!
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