An excerpt from my script review for Is This Thing On? which will be available 12/22/25:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
I forget exactly where I read it, but this is loosely based on...
An excerpt from my script review for The Cabin in the Woods which will be available 12/08/25:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
Have you ever stopped to think that a title works as a...
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...
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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 my script review for Logan Lucky which will be available 08/21/17:
3.) Quality of Characters
Build a network of support for your characters.
Whether blood relations or not, this genre needs to...
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 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,...
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...
A slight change of plans, as I wasn’t able to see Creed 2 over the weekend like I had planned. But I thought why not kick Christmas month off with a Christmas...
An excerpt from our guest script review for Wild which will be available 12/31/14:
1.) Marketability of Idea
Kudos to Reese Witherspoon and her producing partner Bruna Papandrea. They are batting 1000% after acquiring...
An excerpt from my script review for Hail Caesar! which will be available 02/08/16:
5.) Format
You’re not Quentin Tarantino.
But neither are the Coen Brothers, either.
Not in terms of success, mind you, but that...
