An excerpt from my script review for Road House which will be available 03/25/24:
2.) Plot Stability
Okay, before we get into the original, did anyone watch the remake?
Don’t let me ruin it for...
If given the option, I never go with IMAX, as it costs a whole hell of a lot more and I hate assigned seating like you’re attending a baseball game or you’re...
An excerpt from my script review for Shutter Island (2010) which will be available 03/12/24:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
We’re constantly telling you to consider writing a contained horror.
Why? Because it’s one of...
An excerpt from my script review for No One Lives (2012) which will be available 03/05/24:
3.) Quality of Characters
Emma and Driver.
We’re presented with this really weird dynamic, which is good, but it’s...
An excerpt from my script review for What Could Have Been: Captain Nemo origin story which will be available 02/19/24:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
Did you know Disney+ was rebooting 20,000 Leagues Under the...
It looks like 2023 was the year for bad movies. And it was the year of movies that people loved and for some reason I hated. But really that could be said...
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.
If Hotel Artemis has one thing going against it, it’s that I found the film very forgettable. It almost seemed to vanish from my mind as soon as I left the theater....
(Before you start, make sure to catch up on Horror Week 1 and Week 2.)
Apostle - Did a great job at atmosphere, felt almost like a prequel to Wicker Man. Not as...
An excerpt from my script review for Chappaquiddick which will be available 05/14/18:
3.) Quality of Characters
Good old fashioned love triangle.
And I’m not talking romance, but bromance!
Joey Gargan loves Ted Kennedy who loves...
An excerpt from my script review for Death Wish which will be available 03/05/18:
3.) Quality of Characters
Converting your hero into an antihero.
We’re presented with Paul Kersey as a giver of life right...
Here we go, ladies and gentlemen, back with another horror film review for you!
This time, we have a piece called Mercy Black, which I was planning to rent on Amazon, until it came...
An excerpt from Reals script review for Halloween 666: The Origin (Unproduced) which will be available 02/15/18:
What We Can Learn
1. It may be an overused saying, but make your setting (s) feel...
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...
An excerpt from my script review for Bill and Ted Face the Music which will be available 09/07/20:
2.) Plot Stability
So Bill and Ted became major flops after Bogus.
That’s a lot of pressure to write the one...