An excerpt from my script review for The Running Man which will be available 11/19/25:
2.) Plot Stability
With a few minor exceptions, this script follows the 1987 version of the film pretty closely.
One...
An excerpt from my script review for Prey which will be available 11/10/25:
2.) Plot Stability
This came out during that magical time after Covid that the Cap’n and I were so fond of.
Theaters...
I really didn’t think I’d like the first Black Phone movie as much as I did. I don’t know if it was the trailers or the fact it was another Blumhouse film,...
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Coyotes - I was hoping for a bit more humor and a lot more gore. Instead, I got annoyed by the...
While trying to come up with a movie to team up with Hank with, I ran into a YouTube video talking about horror movies no one has seen. Usually I’ve seen every...
Hi all.
Happy Halloween!!!
It’s the last day of the month that our beloved Cap’n looks forward to all year long…which also means it’s time for another Halloween Double Feature!!!
1.) Marketability of the Idea
The...
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 A Quiet Place which will be available 04/10/18:
2.) Plot Stability
Is your horror “practical”?
And we’re not talking about monsters, ghosts, aliens, etc.
Audiences suspend their disbelief for...
An excerpt from our ScreenBeats article From North Korea, With Love: Insights into the Next Bond Film which will be available 1/2/15:
"A cryptic message from Bond's past sends him on a trail...
An excerpt from my script review for Pixels which will be available 8/11/15:
3.) Quality of Characters
Billy Madison was popular around the time I was finishing high school. In fact, it was...
An excerpt from my script review for Victor Frankenstein which will be available 12/01/15:
4.) Dialogue and Description
One thing that wow’ed me here was a single exchange…page 28:
ALISTAIR
(beat, awkwardly)
Inspector, I’ve been meaning to
say...I,...
Has the comic book superhero film fatigue finally started to set in? Is it on its way out like zombies? Before Walking Dead killed it and World War Z pushed it into...
An excerpt from my script review for The House which will be available 07/03/17:
4.) Dialogue and Description
Enjoyable description.
You want your reader to be entertained as he’s reading, just like you want an...
An excerpt from my script review for The Theory of Everything which will be available 12/02/14:
3.) Quality of Characters
Stephen.
Introduced as an awkward, yet charming, individual.
Enjoyed him very much for most of the...
