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 Gone Girl which will be available 10/22/14:
Want the full review? Follow this link to the Gone Girl script review.
2.) Plot Stability
Carson sent out an...
An excerpt from my script review for Lost City of Z which will be available 04/24/17:
3.) Quality of Characters
Motivation.
Your hero needs it.
Why does Percy want to go back to the jungle? Because...
What do you plan to do this year?
Complete your first script?
Research potential buyers for your completed spec script?
Or just improve your overall craft as a screenwriting?
Whatever your goal we're glad to help,...
I had plans to break this review up into 2 reviews, one half talking about all of Quentin Tarantino’s other films and saving the second half for my official review of Once...
I could have sworn Love and Monsters was another Netflix original. I searched and searched to no avail, it wasn’t there. I was mistaken.
I think I know why I got it confused,...
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...
The Captain weighs in on the newest Coen Bros. picture. Will his thoughts mirror my own issues with the script?
https://youtu.be/kMqeoW3XRa0
I never got around to seeing this when it came out in...
Hi all.
Welcome to another Saturday with your ol' pal Hank.
Today we're headed down to HOTlanta and hitting some of the shadier neighborhoods around the city.
War and Pain by D.K.
Logline: Huck wants to...
