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.
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...
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...
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
In preparation for Sunday Spotlight Part 3 coming up this weekend, we wanted to take a look at what should be happening by the beginning of Act 3.
Let's take a look at...
Nothing says, "Happy Thanksgiving" like a new video!
Do you have a great idea you're ready to get started on? Is there enough "meat" on the project's bones to go from FADE IN...
Hi all.
Good morning and happy Saturday.
I'm going to get this out of the way early. As you know, our author today, Randall Hahn, wrote a gem of a script called Gideon,...
An excerpt from Reals' script review for Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City which will be available 04/27/25:
What Worked
The Woman on the Road - This, I believe, is a scene from the game Resident...
Every year for horror month since I’ve been reviewing movies for the site, I always like to showcase at least one older film that people either love or hate. This year I...
