An excerpt from my script review for The Cabin in the Woods which will be available 12/08/25:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
Have you ever stopped to think that a title works as a...
An excerpt from my script review for The Running Man which will be available 11/19/25:
2.) Plot Stability
With a few minor exceptions, this script follows the 1987 version of the film pretty closely.
One...
An excerpt from my script review for Prey which will be available 11/10/25:
2.) Plot Stability
This came out during that magical time after Covid that the Cap’n and I were so fond of.
Theaters...
I really didn’t think I’d like the first Black Phone movie as much as I did. I don’t know if it was the trailers or the fact it was another Blumhouse film,...
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Coyotes - I was hoping for a bit more humor and a lot more gore. Instead, I got annoyed by the...
While trying to come up with a movie to team up with Hank with, I ran into a YouTube video talking about horror movies no one has seen. Usually I’ve seen every...
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.
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....
An excerpt from my script review for Get Out which will be available 02/27/17:
SPOILERS AHEAD!
2.) Plot Stability
Before I go too far into this, I must state that I DID enjoy this script.
But...
An excerpt from our Weekly Beat article on Amazon Studios which will be available 1/23/15:
...Roy Price is the executive in charge of Amazon Studios and will be overseeing Ted Hope’s development team....
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 The Captain's film review of Bone Tomahawk which will be available 8/25/14:
Back to the film. Oddly enough, a lot of the dialogue I had issue with really worked in...
(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 Allied which will be available 11/29/16:
3.) Quality of Characters
The individual characters were good, but not what I want to focus on here.
For this section let’s...
I was planning on reviewing Sharky’s Machine, the Burt Reynolds directed movie, starring himself. But… I fell asleep during the long stretch of time spent on Burt Reynolds’ character watching a hooker...
