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.
An excerpt from my script review for which will be available 06/21/16:
2.) Plot Stability
The political story works.
The part that doesn’t, necessarily, is that McKay isn’t as good a guy as he...
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...
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...
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 very interested to see this one when I first saw the trailer about a year ago as I was writing a thriller with a few similarities and I wanted to...
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...
Don’t you think it’s time that we try to forgive Mel Gibson? I mean, there are celebrities out there who have actually killed people and they get a pass. Matthew Broderick killed...
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,...
