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.
An excerpt from my script review for Bridge of Spies which will be available 10/20/15:
2.) Plot Stability
Instead of giving you a plot summary in this section, I want to focus on something...
An excerpt from our guest script review for The Gambler which will be available 12/28/14:
Marketability of Idea
As a re-make of the 1974 film of the same name, there is some "brand awareness"...
An excerpt from my script review for Blackhat which will be available 05/03/16:
4.) Dialogue and Description
Overall the dialogue wasn’t bad, except for one major exception.
Lien.
Stereotyping Dialogue
Chen was Chinese, but it’s cited he...
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 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 Atomic Blonde which will be available 07/31/17:
2.) Plot Stability
So before we get too far…
“Watch out for spoilers. You will get SPOILERS!”
https://youtu.be/eYM6qv-za8w
Warning administered.
This plot felt...
An excerpt from my script review for Flatliners which will be available 10/09/17:
2.) Plot Stability
This was one of those that scripts that, even at over 100 pages, I didn’t constantly check what...
