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...
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...
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 Reals' script review for The Dead Girl (2006) which will be available 07/26/18:
Initial Thoughts
First, I want to say that it is great to read the work of a female...
An excerpt from The Weekly Beat Dr. No Interviews Please! which will be available 1/12/15:
There is a cyber war going on within our computer screens. You cannot see it but it’s there....
An excerpt from my script review for The Legend of Tarzan which will be available 07/11/16:
2.) Plot Stability
Everyone should have caught the HUGE red flag when interviews with Alexander Skarsgård were focused...
An excerpt from my script review for The Producers which will be available 09/05/16:
5.) Format
This portion is extremely important considering this week’s script.
While searching for a PDF, before a member was kind...
An excerpt from my script review for The Accountant which will be available 10/19/16:
3.) Quality of Characters
Two things here.
First, the second scene of the script presents YOUNG BOY and LITTLE BROTHER.
We’re not...
An excerpt from my script review for Shadow in the Cloud which will be available 01/04/21:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
Contained horror thriller.
We’re starting this year’s first review off with marketable advice.
A few...
An excerpt from my script review for A Few Good Men which will be available 02/05/18:
3.) Quality of Characters
Establish (and then utilize) smart characters.
Kaffee.
Young and inexperienced doesn’t equal stupid, a fact that...
An excerpt from my script review for The Hollars which will be available 11/07/16:
2.) Plot Stability
Okay, what really sold me on reading this script? Watching the trailer.
https://youtu.be/gDm-hMnvB44
It’s cute, funny, and has...
