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...
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...
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.
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,...
And don't forget to check out Part 1: The Best Movies of 2017.
I ran into the same problem with the worst list as I did with the best. Too many candidates. I...
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 Tomorrow War which will be available 07/06/21:
3.) Quality of Characters
Okay, here’s the section where I think the film won out.
First off…Dorian.
In the script, he’s...
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...
https://youtu.be/FMgJ_oprkFA
I can’t remember the first John Woo film I ever saw, was it one of his early English language Hollywood films like Hard Target or one of his many Chinese films, usually...
Hi all.
Today we're taking a look at Behind the Cellar Wall by Lana Newlin.
We follow the story of Maggie, who's a tough young woman, as she loses her parents, is left a...
Hi all, and Happy Memorial Day.
Thanks to those that defend our freedom, whether past, present or future.
Here's what's on the agenda for this week, but also look for changes to the slide...
