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.
An excerpt from my script review for The Duff which will be available 03/23/15:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
It makes sense that we spend a little time with this topic.
When writing a script,...
(Thanks to our friend in the forums, SolomonKane, for weighing in on this much discussed, yet still unproduced, screenplay!!!)
Smoke and Mirrors
Writers: Lee Batchler and Janet Scott Batchler
Plot/Logline: In 1856, Jean-Pierre Robert-Houdin, inventor...
An excerpt from my script review for Dope which will be available 09/08/15:
4.) Dialogue and Description
Both were filled with (mostly) smart cultural references.
It was surprisingly fun to hear characters say things that...
Hi all.
Today we're taking a look at a drama where the protagonist falls for the man who's taking care of her dead cousin's body, in a discreet manner.
Sound cool? We'll see.
Logline:...
Hi all.
Half and half week next week.
Roy's sticking pro, but I'm in the mood to take a peak at another amateur script. Since I'm writing and digesting everything I can regarding...
You're being offered financial compensation for your writing. Congratulations.
Should the digits in black be the only thing to worry about? (Hint, hint. No.)
https://youtu.be/tZCAVdUnEZ0
An excerpt from my script review for Lights Out which will be available 07/25/16:
2.) Plot Stability
Liked it.
It was well written, and kept moving.
Diana was always after Sophie’s son and daughter, pretty important...
Hi all.
Here's what's on the agenda for this week.
Wednesday 5/23
Mythical by Charles Martin
Two teens find the burnt corpse of a soldier desert that turns out to be a zombie with super powers....
