Best Films of 2025 – aka 4th Annual Cagey Awards!!!

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...

Marty Supreme – Was Chalamet stuck in character?

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...

The Lost Boys – Gratuitous Sax Done Right.

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...

Sinners – Two brothers walk into a vampire bar…

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...

A Minecraft Movie – Are Fads a Risky Bet?

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...

F Valentine’s Day – What does it remind YOU of?

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...
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28 Years Later – Masterpiece or Garbage?

I’ve been debating if I should review this movie. I have pretty mixed feelings on it, and it seems I’m not alone. People are either loving it, so much so they are...

Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich -The Cap’n may have just saved you time and money!

Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich is so bad, that it has forced me to come up with a brand new rating. Before, the worst rating I give a film was a SKIP...

The Founder – Come for the hero, stay for the villain.

An excerpt from my script review for The FOunder which will be available 01/23/16: 3.) Quality of Characters It’s interesting that Ray transforms from our “down on his luck” hero to the villain of...

The Sublime Freedom

Hi all. Today we're taking a look at The Sublime Freedom by Antony Davies. If you remember, Mr. Davies was a coauthor on the Return Fire script we reviewed last week. (Sorry about...

Write to Reals: Black Widow – Unproduced David Hayter Script Review

An excerpt from Reals' script review for Black Widow (Unproduced David Hayter) which will be available 8/25/14: New Section - How I Would Have Structured It! Here is a new section of my review...

Dunkirk – Unconventional Storytelling that Works

In the US, I don’t think the events of Dunkirk are very well known. Before this film I’ve never even heard of Dunkirk, much less what took place there. The only time...

Down Range – Amateur Monday Review

Here's the script review for our FIRST Amateur Monday winner, Down Range: Hi all. Our first ever Amateur Monday Contest ended Friday. Votes were tallied. And the winner is… Down Range by our...

The Spectre Behind Sony’s Spy Story

An excerpt from our new Weekly Beat section brought to us by ScreenBeats, here's Part One of the Sony Hack which will be available 12/26/14: What follows is the first course to a...

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