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.
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...
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...
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...
An excerpt from my script review for The Big Short which will be available 12/21/15:
4.) Dialogue and Description
Breaking the 4th wall in a story is generally frowned upon, especially if it’s not...
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.
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...
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...
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
