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...
God, what is that smell? Did you shit yourself? Something is in the air. Oh wait, I know what it is. It’s love. Love is in the air again and it smells...
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 Reals' script review for Dagon by David Michael Quiroz, Jr. which will be available 11/26/18:
The Script
-- I like that it is only 101 pages (including the Bloodlist cover page...
An excerpt from my script review for Trumbo which will be available 04/25/16:
6.) What I liked...
Besides being a well written screenplay, the tangents with today’s political climate are astonishing.
In this script we’re...
An excerpt from my script review for Downsizing which will be available 01/15/18:
2.) Plot Stability
Don’t complicate your story.
Before starting a script, you should have a good idea of what your main plot...
An excerpt from my script review for Entourage which will be available 06/08/15:
3.) Quality of Characters
Vince – The movie star, who despite having box office hits, still hasn’t reached that next level...
Hi all.
Here's the schedule for next week.
Monday 9/10
Buried by Chris Sparling
Logline: Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find...
An excerpt from my script review for A Kid Like Jake which will be available 06/04/18:
2.) Plot Stability
Part of me grows tired of these lazily written projects that think because they’re tackling...
An excerpt from Reals' script review for So Help Me God which will be available 07/14/18:
What Needs Work
-- Pg. 1 - We don’t need the D.A.’s name if the writer is just...
An excerpt from my script review for The Road which will be available 12/13/20:
3.) Quality of Characters
Three dimensional personalities tucked behind generic names.
Man and Boy.
We’re with them for well over one hundred...
