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.
I’m still trying to decide if I liked this movie or not. I love Chris Pratt. He’s one of those actors I noticed going back all the way to Everwood. He has...
An excerpt from my script review for Birdman which will be available 11/17/14:
3.) Quality of Characters
Matt vs. Riggan
Found it very interesting how they were more or less two peas in the same...
Hi all, and Happy New Year!
Is this the year you break into the screenwriting industry?
Do any of your resolutions include the following:
A.) Complete your first script
B.) Land an agent or manager
C.) Option...
An excerpt from my script review for Boltneck which will be available 03/03/2020:
Boltneck was a masterpiece!
https://youtu.be/uxbQATBAXf8
Did you ever wonder what Boltneck was exactly? Wonder no more!
3.) Quality of
Characters
More than a decade
ago the...
Hi all.
It's two weeks in a row that I've been lucky enough to start Wednesday with fast moving scripts.
This week it's:
The Days Never Know by Taylor McCleve
Logline - With their ten-year high...
An excerpt from Reals' script review for Killers of the Flower Moon which will be available 12/11/23:
What Worked
An Important Subject - The treatment of the Osage people and how their tribe was attacked...
The Captain gives his thoughts on Max Landis's directorial debut! Will he like it?
https://youtu.be/ihoO3T0MUxk
I’m gay for this movie! I loved it. But I know there are some who will hate it....
This week the Captain takes a look at something he admits he's not a fanboy of...Star Wars.
Will he be able to stomach the newest installment of the franchise?
Rogue One: A Star Wars...
