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.
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 Hereditary which will be available 06/10/18:
What Needs Work
6. Pg. 21 - The support group speech to give exposition is kind of lazy. Think of more...
An excerpt from Reals' script review for Hate Night by the Boyd Brothers which will be available 04/06/18:
Initial Thoughts
I always love reading horror scripts because the horror genre is one that has...
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 my script review for The Death of Stalin which will be available 03/12/18:
5.) Format
We all have that friend on Facebook with the “perfect” life. Constant posts about how...
An excerpt from Reals' script review for Runner,
Runner which will be available 02/07/18:
MOMENTS THAT WORKED WELL:
-- Pg. 1 - I like the line "Smart comes off him like airstrip heat waves."...
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 Captive State which will be available 03/25/19:
2.) Plot
Stability
The first scene started
out brilliantly.
We open on a man and
his wife trying to navigate through the busy streets...
