An excerpt from my script review for Star Wars First Draft which will be available 05/04/26:
2.) Plot Stability
When he was trying to launch this new universe, I knew George Lucas had trouble,...
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...
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An excerpt from my script review for Criminal which will be available 04/18/16:
3.) Quality of Characters
Following the argument that a decent amount of the plot is too convenient, it’s our duty to...
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...
Hi all.
Bit of a change up next week.
Monday 10/8
Training Day by David Ayer
Logline: On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue...
I’m starting this review off telling you that I loved this movie. And that is shocking for a bunch of different reasons. One being the trailers for this looked ridiculous. That mostly...
An excerpt from my script review for Tusk which will be available 10/06/14:
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6.) What I liked...
The idea of Kevin Smith...
An excerpt from Reals' script review for Wonder Woman (2004) - Unproduced - Laeta Kalogridis which will be available 05/04/18:
Initial Thoughts
I personally thought Wonder Woman (2017) was an important, but flawed, film....
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...
An excerpt from my script review for Willy's Wonderland which will be available 02/15/21:
4.) Dialogue and Description
The teenage banter was just so painful.
It’s probably meant to be, to show how naïve they are that they’d...