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...
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...
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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...
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 No One Will Save You (Hulu) which will be available 09/25/23:
4.) Dialogue and Description
What do you do if you’re not going to have any dialogue?
This!
This...
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Max is on fire! And his rainbow hair looks delicious. The guy is a spec selling fool. But let’s talk about the last of his pitched films. So Max pitched a bunch...
An excerpt from my script review for Super which will be available 05/08/17:
3.) Quality of Characters
Where one can make the argument that Starlord doesn’t really change in the Guardians movies, the opposite...
An excerpt from my script review for which will be available 11/27/17:
3.) Quality of Characters
Feel bad going over this after the Captain did so as well, but the supporting cast was...
Are you, like I was, afraid of using technical screenwriting techniques like an intercut?
Not to worry, we go over that and more (like using V.O. and O.S.) in this quick and easy...
An excerpt from my script review for Passengers which will be available 01/03/17:
2.) Plot Stability
Again, this story hits all the marks in a way that entertains us, not including certain beats simply...
Hi all.
Once again, thanks for coming over to see your buddy Hank's review for this week's Sunday Spotlight. (I wonder if Brad even reads this, lol.)
I'm sure Roy mentioned it, but...
An excerpt from my script review for Get Hard which will be available 04/06/15:
4.) Dialogue and Description
Blocks of description. Not walls of it, just mostly blocks, but you all know better.
Break...
