The Invisible Man – Mine that public domain!

An excerpt from my script review for The Invisible Man (2020) which will be available 04/20/26: 1.) Marketability of the Idea To be clear, I’ve never read the novel by H.G. Wells. I’ve also never...

Send Help – The same, only different.

An excerpt from my script review for Send Help which will be available 04/14/26: 1.) Marketability of the Idea Give me the same, only different. – Sam Raimi Misery meets Castaway was in all the comments on the...

Roofman – Could Channing save it?

An excerpt from my script review for Roofman which will be available 04/06/26: 5.) Format This Saturday I had absolutely nothing going on. Brought the boy home from college Friday afternoon, and he spent all...

What Could Have Been: Captain Blood Reboot (1994)

An excerpt from my script review for Captain Blood (1994) which will be available 04/01/26: 2.) Plot Stability My biggest complaint, aside from the similarities in the previous section? Way too many sea battles. Listen, I...

10 Best Films of 2025 – aka 4th Annual Cagey Awards!!!

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...

Marty Supreme – Was Chalamet stuck in character?

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...
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Barbie – Do’s and Don’ts in Dialogue and Description

An excerpt from my script review for Barbie which will be available 01/01/24: 4.) Dialogue and Description The dialogue was fine, especially because of things like the above point. For instance on page 8 where...

Matrix Reloaded Script Review

Hi all. If you remember, Roy went on and on about philosophy and great screenwriting last week with his review of The Matrix. You know he's the smert one, but here's a bit of...

Hanks Thoughts – Walking Dead Season 3

Hi all. Okay, so the wife and I didn't want to watch The Walking Dead initially, since we're BIG BABIES and get frightened easy. Due to lack of the DVR being empty...

Buried – Script Review

Script: Buried by Chris Sparling Logline: Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a...

Inherit the Viper – Have we seen this before?

An excerpt from my script review for Inherit the Viper which will be available 03/16/20: 3.) Quality of Characters If you’ve seen Ozark and Ruth Langmore, you’ve more or less seen Josie and the Conley clan. Damn...

Where to Mine Ideas for Your Contained Thriller

Hi all. I wanted to take a break from reviews today, and present an idea that I've been wanting to discuss for some time. Lately, I've had quite a few more requests on my...

WallyWorld

Hank here. Tip of the day: An "isle" is what we all hope to buy once we sell our scripts for millions of dollars, while an "aisle" is where we buy the Ramen Noodles...

Agent 47 – Why Skip Woods is Awesome

An excerpt from The Captain's review of the Hitman: Agent 47 film which will be available 9/20/15: I hate Skip Woods. I’ve never met him, I don’t know who he is, but just...

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