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.
One of my favorite graphic novels is the comic A God Somewhere. It’s about an average beach bum who is a bit Jesus freaky, but nothing too troublesome, that is until an...
****Entries now OPEN on the forums!
Hi all.
Okay, so the contest rules have been sorted out.
1.)What are the prizes?
We’re rewarding both the 1st and 2nd place winners.
1st Place – Script listing on InkTip,...
An excerpt from my script analysis for Focus which will be available 03/02/15:
4.) Dialogue and Description
First up, the dialogue. As you might discern from the title, I wasn't a fan.
I was reminded...
With blockbusters like Spider-Man: Homecoming, War for the Planet of the Apes, Dunkirk, Atomic Blonde and The Emoji Movie coming this out month, July is looking to be quite the theater going...
The Captain takes a look at Jem and the Holograms. Here's a bit of what he thought, and fyi, he's angry:
But seriously, how do you adapt this?
I mean, at one...
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...
Hi all.
Next week we start our new schedule. With that in mind we want to get these links out early hoping that you can follow along with us next week.
Monday 7/23
Eons...
In case you’re wondering, I’m going to try to be as spoiler free as possible during this review. There’s only one big twist in this film and I don’t want to give...
