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.
I was at a crossroads this week as to which film I should review. Netflix had The Dirt, the bio picture about the 80’s hair metal band Mötley Crüe. I was never...
DEADLINE December 15, 2014!!!
Hi all.
Some of you have asked for opportunities for a shot at a free membership, and we've listened.
For the rest of this month, and sometime mid-December, we'll be hosting...
The Captain weighs in on the film portion of The Witch:
https://youtu.be/iQXmlf3Sefg
The Witch! Burn the witch! Or I guess I should call it Vitch since it seems to be spelled with two V’s....
Hi all. (Does that annoy anyone yet? I wanted to go with "hello, hello" but that's already taken.)
Here's the schedule for this week. Walker's gracing I with another reader...
This is Part 1 of this year's Halloween Double Feature. Here, we're taking a look at the script.
(Then check out The Captain's movie review in Part 2.)
Hi all.
Halloween is once again...
What is an ellipsis in screenwriting terms? How is it used and how often should you use it?
Check out our quick informative video.
https://youtu.be/ISeWdwFkVf0
From the writer of the 1998 Godzilla film and the director of Geostorm, now brings you Bad Samaritan, a fun little thriller that I quite enjoyed.
David Tennant plays Cale Erendreich, now...
Hi all.
Here's what's on the agenda for next week.
Monday 10/1
V for Vendetta by Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski
Logline: A shadowy freedom fighter known only as "V" uses terrorist tactics to fight against...
