Hi all.
No review today. Instead I wanted to take a bit of time and discuss something that’s been kicking around upstairs for yours truly, and mentioned more frequently in some of the...
An excerpt from my script review for The Invisible Man (2020) which will be available 04/20/26:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
To be clear, I’ve never read the novel by H.G. Wells.
I’ve also never...
An excerpt from my script review for Send Help which will be available 04/14/26:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
Give me the same, only different. – Sam Raimi
Misery meets Castaway was in all the comments on the...
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...
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...
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 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...
An excerpt from my script review for The Belko Experiment which will be available 07/10/17:
2.) Plot Stability
Most of you know by now, but…
Big fan of contained here.
To me there’s nothing more challenging...
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...
An excerpt from my script review for Green Room which will be available 05/30/16:
2.) Plot Stability
It’s amazing how a good plot can originate from an everyday mistake.
The brilliance of this script is...
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...
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...
Hi all.
This will be the first official Write to Reel screenplay contest, and we're still hammering out the details.
We know this though...10 entrants.
That's it.
I wanted to email the info out ahead of...
An excerpt from my script review for Jurassic Park 4 which will be available 6/22/15:
2.) Plot Stability
To say that this script is “dead’ isn’t entirely true.
Jurassic Park 4 reads like Jurassic World...
