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.
Happy 4th one and all!
Sorry this is WAYYY late, but with getting stuff done for the holiday today, and fireworks last night, things are a bit busy.
Plus most of you probably won't...
This week the Captain weighs in on SPLIT.
Will M Night Shyamalan return to his roots or give us another dud?
Enjoy...
I guess this pretty much goes without saying, but…
SPOILERS AHEAD!
https://youtu.be/84TouqfIsiI
Do not read this...
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales is not a terrible film. It is however completely uninspiring, but at film 5 in the series, how can it be? Johnny Depp...
Not many know this, but Violent Night is actually a sequel to the film The Northman. I am not joking; this is one hundred percent a proven fact.
I have proof, damn it!...
An excerpt from my script review for Seventh Son which will be available 2/16/15:
2.) Plot Stability
The script was vastly superior to the film.
The version I read is in no way perfect, but...
An excerpt from my script review for Turner and Hooch which will be available 08/30/16:
3.) Quality of Characters
If you’re writing any sort of buddy movie, male and female alike, it’s important to...
Hi all.
Here's what's on the agenda for this week.
Something NEW (which I believe Roy will be talking more about tomorrow) is scripts will no longer be linked to on other sites, especially...
An excerpt from my script review for Nightcrawler which will be available 11/04/14:
Want the full review? Follow this link to the Nightcrawler Script Review.
3.) Quality of Characters
Lou's awful.
Not written awful, of...
