Halloween Double Feature 2025 (Part 2): Cherry Falls – Editing From Hell?

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...

Halloween Double Feature 2025 (Part 1): Cherry Falls – The greatest slasher you’ve never heard of?

Hi all. Happy Halloween!!! It’s the last day of the month that our beloved Cap’n looks forward to all year long…which also means it’s time for another Halloween Double Feature!!! 1.) Marketability of the Idea The...

Happy Death Day – Should YOU give up on screenwriting?

An excerpt from my script review for Happy Death Day which will be available 10/27/25: 1.) Marketability of the Idea Groundhog Day, but it’s horror. The main character is brutally murdered each day and every...

Horror Month 2025: Week 3

Feel free to check out Week 2 and make sure to follow along on Twitter: http://x.com/CPeachfuzz The Strangers: Chapter 2 â€“ I did not enjoy the first half, I’m referring to these as first half and second...

Horror Month 2025: Week 2

Feel free to check out Week 1 and make sure to follow along on Twitter: http://x.com/CPeachfuzz Kill Me Again â€“ I initially really loved the plot to this movie, serial killer trapped in a time...

Horror Month 2025: Week 1

The first week of Horror Month is complete! Here is everything I watched. Feel free to list every horror related movie or series you watched as well, I'm always on the hunt...
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Red Sparrow – The Captain weighs in on the “thriller” factor

Red Sparrow is an erotic spy thriller where nothing in it works. Going into it I was either expecting La Femme Nikita or Atomic Blonde. What I got was neither. At least...

War Dogs – Don’t Get Lost in Backstory!

An excerpt from my script review for War Dogs which will be available 8/22/16: 2.) Plot Stability Better title? How to be a douchebag Jewish Stereotype. Unsure how the end product turned out, but this script...

Script Links 8-20-12

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...

La La Land – Possible to enjoy a musical script without the score?

An excerpt from my script review for La La Land which will be available 01/16/17: 5.) Format So you want to sell your musical? Make sure to write the music first. Sure you’ll probably rewrite the...

Happy Halloween (2018) – The Best of All Halloween Sequels?

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....

Saving Mr. Banks – Spoon Full of Snobby Author

An excerpt from my script review for Saving Mr. Banks which will be available 02/22/16: 2.) Plot Stability There are two storylines. The primary being Walt Disney trying to convince Pamela Travers that he won’t...

Horror Month 2020: Week 3 and Top 10 New Horror Movies!

Kind of a dead final week for me in terms of movie watching. I still had a few left I wanted to check out, but nothing was really screaming to be watched....

Hostiles – What single word will the Captain use to describe it?

I think it was in October I ordered a box of Japanese potato chips. Thinking it would be an interesting Christmas gift to buy myself. However, I didn’t realize it would take...

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