An excerpt from my script review for Is This Thing On? which will be available 12/22/25:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
I forget exactly where I read it, but this is loosely based on...
An excerpt from my script review for The Cabin in the Woods which will be available 12/08/25:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
Have you ever stopped to think that a title works as a...
An excerpt from my script review for The Running Man which will be available 11/19/25:
2.) Plot Stability
With a few minor exceptions, this script follows the 1987 version of the film pretty closely.
One...
An excerpt from my script review for Prey which will be available 11/10/25:
2.) Plot Stability
This came out during that magical time after Covid that the Cap’n and I were so fond of.
Theaters...
I really didn’t think I’d like the first Black Phone movie as much as I did. I don’t know if it was the trailers or the fact it was another Blumhouse film,...
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Coyotes - I was hoping for a bit more humor and a lot more gore. Instead, I got annoyed by the...
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 my script review for Contagion which will be available 04/06/20:
2.) Plot Stability
Over the weekend I had an urge to tweet as I feel the US is relying too much...
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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...
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It's funny that in all the screenwriting classes I've taken or been a part of, this movie is always referenced.
I say that it's funny, because never once was the script offered...
Script: 127 HOURS by Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy
Logline: A mountain climber becomes trapped under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah and resorts to desperate measures in order to survive.
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An excerpt from my script review for Gladiator 2 which will be available 01/07/25:
2.) Plot Stability
Apologies in advance to those that have read this story before…
I remember sitting in the theater for...
Oedipus Rex
It was foretold by an oracle that Laius would die at the hands of his son. Trying to prevent this, Laius orders his newborn son killed.
No one wants to be...
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So it's my turn to review an actual made movie. I'll see how this goes, and it...
We're back with our second person "in the biz." Today we're speaking with Dale Zawada, who's going to tell us what it's like to see one of our babies on the...
