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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRfj1VCg16Y
When Hank said I should do a review of The Revenant, I was a bit puzzled. I already did a review of The Revenant a couple of years ago. It was awesome!...
Justice League is a hilariously bad, Frankensteined together, clusterfuck that needed not only another year to work on the CGI but also a complete rewrite of the script, because this thing makes...
Hi all. It's Wednesday already.
Monday 10/22
127 HOURS by Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy
Logline: A mountain climber becomes trapped under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah and resorts to desperate measures...
An excerpt from my script review for Murder on the Orient Express which will be available 12/04/17:
2.) Plot Stability
Can a novel written in 1934 still be relevant and excite modern day audiences?
3way...
Hi all.
As you'll notice below, Roy and I have made a slight change to our weekly schedule.
We're switching to two reviews a week and one article.
Two reasons for this.
First, the return on...
There are only two Halloween films in the franchise that I love. The original and of course, Season of the Witch, a film I reviewed for horror month a few years back....
My script review for The Hateful Eight which will be available 01/04/15:
Hi all.
Happy New Year!
With that fun little greeting out of the way...
You’re not Quentin Tarantino.
Before we start ANYTHING, that needs to...
