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...
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...
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.
Script Link: Forgetting Sarah Marshall by Jason Segel
Logline: Devastated Peter takes a Hawaii vacation in order to deal with recent break-up with his TV star girlfriend, Sarah. Little does he know Sarah's...
Today I wanted to take a look back at some of our earlier reviews.
When Roy and I started, we had no clue if this would be beneficial or not. We knew...
Today we're taking a look at Storm Dragons by Leonardo Reis.
Since Leonardo is more or less creating an entire world from scratch, here's the logline:
The ancient Covenant of the Dragon decrees that...
Script: Training Day by David Ayer
Logline: On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.
King Kong...
Hi all.
It's Thursday, and you all know what that means, we're taking a look at a professional script to see how the pros do things right, and occasionally wrong.
This Thursday it's my...
Hi all.
Today's script caught me a bit off guard.
I hadn't even known it was an idea for a film, let alone a script until I saw it during a preview with the...
An excerpt from my script review for My Friend Dahmer which will be available 11/13/17:
2.) Plot Stability
Before we take a look at the previous two questions, one thing concerns me with the...
