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 November Man which will be available 9/1/14:
3.) Quality of Characters
After what had to be missing plot, there were missing character relationships.
Devereaux and Mason had the...
I could never really get into rape revenge movies. Though I’d hate to see what the diehard rape revenge film fan would even look like. The only rape revenge film I actually...
Upgrade stars Logan Marshall-Green, not Tom Hardy as some have mistakenly believed. And no, this is not the Venom movie. Logan Marshall-Green has the unfortunate fate of looking almost identical to Tom...
Atomic Blonde is not a bad film. However it doesn’t live up to what the trailer promised. Sure, this film has plenty of action in it. Even if it isn’t warranted. The...
Every so often a film like this comes along, celebrating the craft of practical horror effects. And I couldn’t be happier with the results.
Back in 2011 there was a remake of The...
It is starting to look like live action adaptations of anime are about at the same level as videogame adaptations. Meaning they're all fucking terrible!
I think I went down the list of...
Hi all, and a new week with more links. We're cutting down to 4 scripts a week (which should be a nice balance) as Roy especially is putting so much free...
Giving your script a contained setting makes it more marketable.
Wondering why? Are you stuck on ways to brainstorm contained script ideas?
Not to worry, we're here to help.
https://youtu.be/WpT6D5w2c5o
