An excerpt from my script review for Mission: Impossible Fallout which will be available 05/23/22:
5.) Format
What is the acceptable format for scripts?
Lucky for you there’s no exact structure, just some things that are accepted...
Something seemed off with this movie almost from the start. Usually when adapting Stephen King, much like the books, the movies tend to run long. With the runtime being barely 90 minutes,...
An excerpt from my script review for After Yang which will be available 05/09/22:
3.) Quality of Characters
Here is where we’re going to focus most of our attention.
What this script did really well...
An excerpt from 3way's script review for All the Old Knives which will be available 05/04/22:
I think it is worth mentioning that this draft is from 2014, so quite a while ago....
I got distracted by reading all the audience reviews for this film. I wondered why it had a score of 2 out of 5. And the reasons are hilarious.
I’m not going to...
I’m not entirely sure what DC is doing. Hell, I’m not so sure they know what they’re doing either. They seem to have two separate universes going on at the same time....
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.
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If you remember, Roy went on and on about philosophy and great screenwriting last week with his review of The Matrix.
You know he's the smert one, but here's a bit of...
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I wanted to take a break from reviews today, and present an idea that I've been wanting to discuss for some time.
Lately, I've had quite a few more requests on my...
An excerpt from my script review for My Friend Dahmer which will be available 11/13/17:
2.) Plot Stability
Before we take a look at the previous two questions, one thing concerns me with the...
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It's Thursday, and you all know what that means, we're taking a look at a professional script to see how the pros do things right, and occasionally wrong.
This Thursday it's my...
An excerpt from my script review for Contagion which will be available 04/06/20:
2.) Plot Stability
Over the weekend I had an urge to tweet as I feel the US is relying too much...
Script: Buried by Chris Sparling
Logline: Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a...
Script: Training Day by David Ayer
Logline: On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.
King Kong...
Script Link: Forgetting Sarah Marshall by Jason Segel
Logline: Devastated Peter takes a Hawaii vacation in order to deal with recent break-up with his TV star girlfriend, Sarah. Little does he know Sarah's...
