An excerpt from my script review for The Invisible Man (2020) which will be available 04/20/26:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
To be clear, I’ve never read the novel by H.G. Wells.
I’ve also never...
An excerpt from my script review for Send Help which will be available 04/14/26:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
Give me the same, only different. – Sam Raimi
Misery meets Castaway was in all the comments on the...
An excerpt from my script review for Roofman which will be available 04/06/26:
5.) Format
This Saturday I had absolutely nothing going on.
Brought the boy home from college Friday afternoon, and he spent all...
An excerpt from my script review for Captain Blood (1994) which will be available 04/01/26:
2.) Plot Stability
My biggest complaint, aside from the similarities in the previous section?
Way too many sea battles.
Listen, I...
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...
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.
On one hand I want to talk about this movie, because I have a lot to say about it. but on the other, I really don’t want to spoil anything for you,...
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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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. (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...
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...
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...
Zack Snyder has managed to garner some good will with me after Justice League, but I know how he can be and how easy it can be to lose that good will.
https://youtu.be/tI1JGPhYBS8
Overindulgent...
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....
