The Lost Boys – Gratuitous Sax Done Right.

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...

Sinners – Two brothers walk into a vampire bar…

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...

A Minecraft Movie – Are Fads a Risky Bet?

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...

F Valentine’s Day – What does it remind YOU of?

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...

Superman – Skip the Origin Story!

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 25 Worst Films of 2025

The Captain's List is in!!! 25. The Phoenician Scheme â€“ 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...
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Write to Reals – A Nightmare on Elm Street 6 (Unproduced) Stephen Lebowitz: Worth the read?

An excerpt from my script review for A Nightmare on Elm Street 6 (Unproduced) which will be available 04/27/18: What Needs Work ...​​​​​​Note - A fun game to play with this script is to...

Please…Pardon Our Database Error.

Hi all. For those few of you smart enough to stumble onto the front end of the site here, I wanted to let you know what's going on. Our forums are down for a...

Rebel Moon: Part One – A Child of Fire

Here we are again, another Netflix original Zack Snyder film. The last time we found ourselves in this predicament, it was with Army of the Dead, a film he shot with an...

Tridecagon

Hi all, and Happy Saturday. Hank here. Today we take a look at Tridecagon by BS Kalsi. Logline: It's a story of how a good, happy-go-lucky young man turns evil. A more appropriate version...

The Irishman – OK, boomer…

I love mobster movies and no one makes a mobster movie the way Martin Scorsese can make a mobster movie. He unfortunately hasn’t made a mob movie since The Departed, which finally...

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga – Not as Bad as you think?

It has been almost 10 long years since Fury Road was magnificently released into theaters. Usually when sequels take this long to come out, it feels a little too late for it....

The Bad News First

Well, Hank's at it again. This time we're headed down to sunny Florida (I sounded that out as Flor-REE-duh as I typed it) and to the beaches of Miami. A group of...

Blood and Fire

Hank here. This is my first REQUESTED review from Amazon Studios which I'm excited about. *Sidenote* Thanks to Lauri for taking my review in stride, and sorry I misspelled your name. Today's review is of...

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