The Running Man – Still a classic.

An excerpt from my script review for The Running Man which will be available 11/19/25: 2.) Plot Stability With a few minor exceptions, this script follows the 1987 version of the film pretty closely. One...

Prey – Can you reboot an original?

An excerpt from my script review for Prey which will be available 11/10/25: 2.) Plot Stability This came out during that magical time after Covid that the Cap’n and I were so fond of. Theaters...

Black Phone 2 – Did we need it?

I really didn’t think I’d like the first Black Phone movie as much as I did. I don’t know if it was the trailers or the fact it was another Blumhouse film,...

Horror Month 2025: Week 4

Feel free to check out Week 3 and make sure to follow along on Twitter: http://x.com/CPeachfuzz Coyotes - I was hoping for a bit more humor and a lot more gore. Instead, I got annoyed by the...

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...
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Miss Sloane – Everytown Pay Attention

An excerpt from my script review for Miss Sloane which will be available 12/12/16: 2.) Plot Stability This script hit all the points it needed to, and had the necessary twists. But we’re not going...

Lazarus Effect – Wait we can learn something?!

An excerpt from my script review for Lazarus Effect which will be available 03/09/15: 3.) Quality of Characters Plot. Dialogue. Format. Things to learn from each, but let's check out characters. The...

Sicario 2: Day of the Soldado – Is this series the new TAKEN?

An excerpt from my script review for Sicario 2: Soldado which will be available 07/02/18: 2.) Plot Stability Could the Sicario series be the new Taken? I’m not talking about stealing the plot, but just...

ZOMGBeavers!

Great title! Great genre! The Captain himself takes a look at this instant cult classic for you. (Read more of his great Horror Reviews here.) http://youtu.be/7onFrBK_hKE It's the end of Horror Month and I think it's fitting...

Logan – Fitting Ending?

An excerpt from my script review for Logan which will be available 12/18/17: 4.) Dialogue and Description Both portions were really well done. This film set a really high bar with the following trailer, one...

Pacific Rim: Uprising – Better than other sequels?

I mentioned in my last review that I started getting into anime again and the anime that did it was Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters on Netflix. The plot got me. Godzilla...

Free Fire – Making the Best of a Contained Situation

An excerpt from my script review for Free Fire which will be available 05/22/17: 2.) Plot Stability As the title to this review implies, the plot ran out of places to go. There’s only so...

The Neon Demon – How much of it was Refn?

Hi all. Happy Day of Independence! (Day late on the blog, our apologies.) To all our French readers out there, thank you. And to our English ones…things worked out for the best, right? The Neon...

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