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...
An excerpt from my script review for A Minecraft Movie which will be available 02/24/26:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
Minecraft.
My kids played it. You or your kids probably played it.
I tried playing it...
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.
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Today's script is something a lot of people have been excited about.
The script alone has been one of the more sought after so far this year. (Especially when you take...
Nostalgia. As we get older we start thinking back on the old days, the bad days, the all-or-nothing days. The shit they don’t make anymore. Like Doritos 3Ds, SURGE Soda, Crispy M&M's,...
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Today's review is taking us back to another popular Amazon Studios project.
The Playground by Brad Viar
A depressed daycare worker journeys to a magical playground populated by children, where he...
It’s horror month! Well, technically horror month started like 2 weeks ago. But I ran into a bit of a snag. I didn’t have any horror films to actually spotlight. Plus, stuck...
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Taking a look today at Olympus Has Fallen.
Didn't know much about this script or movie until I recently saw the commercials (I really need to get out more), but it looked...
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So I've yet to see this movie, but how can I not know about it right?
Silver Linings Playbook seems to be that Cinderella story at awards shows this year, capturing our...
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Today's script is going to be a tricky one to review. It's one of those stories that a lot of people are going to not like, but...
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Today Roy and I want to take a look at one thing, the importance of the first 15 pages.
This is one of the reasons we broke up the Sunday Spotlight the...
