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...
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...
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 The Captain's film review of Sicario which will be available 11/12/15:
The only reason Kate was even asked to join this operation was so she could sign off on a...
It's the Captain's FAVORITE time of year! This is part 1 of a four part review set for October where he'll review his favorite genre...HORROR!
https://youtu.be/e4pUyWRFfj4
Horror month officially begins! And what better...
An excerpt from my script review for Black Mass which will be available 09/24/15:
4.) Dialogue and Description
It was refreshing to see the amount of white space on the pages compared to the...
An excerpt from The Captina's film review of The Gift which will be available 11/16/15:
The Gift stars Jason Bateman as Simon. Simon is an asshole. But you don’t really get the full...
Have you written a great script and wondering what to do with it?
Here are some tips on how to query your writing successfully and steps to sell your script.
https://youtu.be/jz8tU1Cqm-c
Want more helpful screenwriting...
For some dumb reason I skipped both films when they were out in theaters. I have no idea why. The first film I waited because it was pretty much an unknown. Plus...
While I was on vacation, trying to find my own Crystal Lake, two of your favorite reviewers both watched the same film, JASON X.
With The Captain being a horror fan, and 3way...
An excerpt from The Captain's film review for The Martian which will be available 10/09/15:
What can I say, this film is great. It is Apollo 13 meets Cast Away. Is there a...
