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…
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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.
An excerpt from my script review for Operation Finale which will be available 09/10/18:
2.) Plot Stability
Whether this is the first review you’ve read here, or one of many, one thing’s certain as...
It has been a while since my last review. Mainly due to the fact there really hasn’t been much of anything worth reviewing.
However this month is special. Because if you don’t know,...
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...
It’s finally that time again when I list all the great and maybe not so great films I’d seen that year. I don’t know about you, but 2018 wasn’t too bad for...
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...
It’s been 11 long years since the last Rambo film, which I thought concluded the saga of Rambo pretty well. But this is Stallone we’re talking about here, if there’s a chance...
I feel like I missed a week, since we are close to the end now. But I've been keeping pretty good track of my movie watching over on my twitter account. And...
An excerpt from my script review for Harriet which will be available 11/04/19:
4.) Dialogue and Description
The description was fine, but what hit me was some of the dialogue.
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HARRIET & SLAVES (OVER)So...
