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.
Mortal Engines is the most ambitious, original and weirdest movie of 2018. That isn’t to say I liked or hated this movie, in fact, I still have no idea how I...
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 the new TV series Yellowstone which will be available 07/09/18:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
Yellowstone National Park.
Drive in through the eastern entrance and you’ll find yourself...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
