Horror Month 2025: Week 1

The first week of Horror Month is complete! Here is everything I watched. Feel free to list every horror related movie or series you watched as well, I'm always on the hunt...

What Could Have Been: Vanderbilt’s The Long Walk Adaptation

An excerpt from my script review for The Long Walk (unproduced by James Vanderbilt) which will be available 10/06/25: 2.) Plot Stability Just a reminder, this is for Vanderbilt’s unproduced version and not the...

Horror Month 2025!

It’s that time again, the month of all things spooky, creepy and stinky. Because like every year, I know a majority of the films on this list are going to be real...

Him (2025) – WTF?!…but in a GOOD way!

An excerpt from my script review for Him (aka The Goat) which will be available 09/29/25: 2.) Plot Stability I thoroughly enjoyed this script. Benny is entering Connor’s world, and he feels like he’s by himself, but...

The Sting – Does it still hold up? (…and RIP Robert Redford)

An excerpt from my script review for The Sting (1973) which will be available 09/23/25: 1.) Marketability of the Idea So…this was started yesterday, but mom is visiting from Florida all week. Over the weekend we...

What Could Have Been – Roger Rabbit 2: The Toon Platoon

An excerpt from my script review for Roger Rabbit 2: The Toon Platoon which will be available 09/15/25: 2.) Plot Stability Admittedly I did minimal research before reading this script so as not to persuade my...
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Rampage – Cool adaptation or just The Rock doing what he does?

An excerpt from my script review for Rampage which will be available 04/16/18: 1.) Marketability of the Idea Rampage. Not going to lie. This was the first game I purchased for the NES, or...

Eighth Grade – Anything New in Teenage Angst?

An excerpt from Reals' script review for Eighth Grade by Bo Burnam which will be available 09/14/18: What Worked Pg. 1 - I like the character description because it is short, sweet and (I...

20/20 – The Captain’s Best and Worst

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...

Hotel Artemis – Why Didn’t It Perform?

An excerpt from my script review for Hotel Artemis which will be available 06/11/18: 1.) Marketability of the Idea Black List 2016. Writer of Iron Man 3 and MI: Rogue Nation. Mr. Pierce has some credits...

San Andreas – Blueprint for Disaster

An excerpt from my script review for San Andreas which will be available 6/02/15: 2.) Plot Stability Surprisingly, there’s a lot we can learn from this version. (Admittedly, I was dubious considering the...

Lost River – Ryan Gosling is Pretty!

An excerpt from my script review for Lost River which will be available 5/4/15: 3.) Quality of Characters Underdeveloped. All of them. Bones and Billy especially. Bones comes across as a whiny bitch, who’s afraid...

From the World of John Wick: Ballerina – Missed Opportunities?

If my memory serves me right, which it rarely ever does, I believe I reviewed almost every John Wick movie, so when it came time to watch the new spin off from...

Justice League: Is the Snyder Cut the Better Vision?

Here we are again, back at it, reviewing a movie I already reviewed back in 2017. A movie I called in my review a clusterfuck. And that pretty much sums up that...

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