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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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...
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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...
While watching Rise of Skywalker, one thing became very clear almost right from the start, this film was going to be a mess. It was like they were trying to cram in...
This of course the definitive Best & Worst list of films that came out in 2020. There really are no other lists that compare and are really worth reading but mine. If...
An excerpt from Reals' script review for Anon which will be available 05/10/18:
What Needs Work
-- I am also writing a similar noir-like detective story (though mine is a comic series, not a...
An excerpt from my script review for Brittle Innings which will be available 07/30/18:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
Brittle Innings.
That makes me think of one of the recent Dave Chappelle specials on Netflix.
https://youtu.be/hK14oYP40js
(From...
Hi all and here's what's happening this week.
Wednesday 5/9
Condesa by H.L. Wheeler
Precocious Lisa, at 7, can recite anything she reads and fly her Father’s plane. At 10, her parents die in a...
So after driving for 4 and a half hours in a storm, going to a film festival that didn’t even have my name listed as one of the finalists, and then spending...
An excerpt from my script review for Antlers which will be available 10/31/21:
2.) Plot Stability
Pacing.
That’s what I want to discuss about this particular script in relation to our own writing.
For a horror...
