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...
While trying to come up with a movie to team up with Hank with, I ran into a YouTube video talking about horror movies no one has seen. Usually I’ve seen every...
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 Freaky which will be available 11/16/20:
Writer / Director Christopher Landon has made a career out of “Give Me The Same, But Different!” pitches.
Don’t believe me?...
An excerpt from my script review for Master (2022) which will be available 04/03/23:
2.) Plot StabilityWe’re going to spend a good chunk of our time in this section.Was the script creepy and...
So, this was suggested to me by The Captain (but I was already planning on watching it, promise!) for a review, and so I thought I would oblige.
What is this film about?
The...
An excerpt from my script review for First Man which will be available 10/15/18:
4.) Dialogue and Description
There’s two things you should never do to your reader.
A.) Bore them.
B.) Insult them.
Now, I’ll chalk...
An excerpt from my script review for Hellboy (2019) which will be available 04/15/19:
3.) Quality of
Characters
The character
relationships felt rather contrived.
Hellboy fought with
Broom for no other reason than teenage angst?
Is he even still...
An excerpt from my script review for Ad Astra which will be available 09/23/19:
3.) Quality of Characters
What is “too much” when introducing characters?
This script can answer that.
Page 3:
Roy McBride: forties, handsome. His...
An excerpt from Reals' unproduced script review for Batman: Year One by Frank Miller which will be available 04/03/18:
What Worked
Pg. 1 - White space. That’s always great to see and a good...
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...
