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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
Thor Ragnarok indeed Ragna-Rocks! I saw at least 5 reviews already using that tagline, and I really wanted to be the 6th.
Ragnarok not only is the best Thor film, it might...
An excerpt from The Captain's film review for Victor Frankenstein which will be available 12/03/15:
I like Max Landis… I think. Let me rephrase that. I think I like his work. Him personally,...
An excerpt from my script review for Nocturnal Animals which will be available 11/21/16:
4.) Dialogue and Description
Overdescription – Excessive detail about a character, scene, or action that bogs down a reader as...
Our beloved 3way had some time on his hands, and wanted to weigh in on the Blood List's 2018 Fresh Blood script When Horror Met Sally:
It’s billed as a horror/dark comedy.
Logline: After...
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...
Hi all.
Here's what's on the agenda for next week.
Monday 8/13
The Matrix Reloaded by Andy and Lana Wachowski
Logline: Neo and the rebel leaders estimate that they have 72 hours until 250,000 probes discover...
I was at a loss as to what I should review this week. There wasn’t anything showing in theaters I really cared about seeing, or anything I doubt you’d care to read...
