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.
An excerpt from my script review for Straight Outta Compton which will be available 8/20/15:
4.) Dialogue and Description
The dialogue was decent, in that it felt like the “street dialect” was captured for...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Spoiler warning!!!
Right out of the gate with this one, super guys and super gals. I’m not even going to try and side talk my way around some things that go down in...
