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...
An excerpt from my script review for Superman (2025) which will be available 02/09/26:
2.) Plot Stability
The thing I liked about this, and Matt Reeves The Batman, is that we’re moving away from including...
The Captain's List is in!!!
25. The Phoenician Scheme – It was reminding me a lot of Wes Anderson’s older films, before he got heavy into making films that seem more like plays. But I’d...
An excerpt from my script review for Weapons which will be available 01/20/26:
3.) Quality of Characters
Before we go too far into this…
Maddie’s voice over in the beginning.
She opens the story, but then...
An excerpt from my script review for Anaconda which will be available 01/13/26:
2.) Plot Stability
This felt very Jaws like, in that there’s a lot of eerie shit going on and we don’t...
An excerpt from my script review for KPop Demon Hunters which will be available 12/31/25:
https://youtu.be/LW9QJIT_T-A
Summer 2025. New Smyrna Beach, FL.
Now if you remember the previous family summer vacation we witnessed the glory...
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://youtu.be/EgdxIlSuB70
Look at them buns! Wedgied buns. Side buns. Sandy buns. Wet buns. Covered in blood buns. That last one, maybe not so hot.
An actual shark film that wasn’t made by The...
It's DAY 1 of the New Year, and you're making resolutions...
What do you plan to do in 2024?
Complete your first script?
Polish a rewrite and start querying producers, agents and managers?
Or just improve...
An excerpt from my script review for Our Kind of Traitor which will be available 07/18/16:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
A high level money launderer in the Russian mob races against the clock,...
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...
An excerpt from my script review for The Revenant which will be available 01/11/16:
4.) Dialogue and Description
Okay, I glanced at this script and sighed, remembering the absolute WALLS OF TEXT Mr. Inarritu...
The Captain reviews Trainwreck!
Will Amy Schumer win him over?
Trainwreck
Besides horror and Arnold movies, I also grew up watching romantic comedies thanks to my mom. My favorite still being Don't Tell Her It's...
I was planning on rewatching the first Jurassic World film to refresh my memory before going to see Fallen Kingdom. But then I remember it was basically the same plot as the...
An excerpt from my script review for Wind River which will be available 08/14/17:
4.) Dialogue and Description
Subtext and tone. Your script should have both.
Both were established early on in this script...
