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.
I shrugged off the embarrassment of seeing a Pokémon movie alone to bring you this review. I know I took another week off, but there really wasn’t much to cover anyway.
I did...
An excerpt from my script review for The Happytime Murders which will be available 08/27/18:
3.) Quality of Characters
It takes a certain ensemble to fill the “detective noir” character roles.
Phil Phillips.
The initial voice-overs...
An excerpt from my script review for Game Night which will be available 03/27/18:
3.) Quality of Characters
Recently my sister’s family talked with me about something they saw on cable about The Hero’s...
An excerpt from my script review for The Commuter which will be available 01/22/18:
3.) Quality of Characters
Holy commuters, Batman!
But given that this is an updated version of Orient Express, we need suspects...
An excerpt from my script review for Monster Hunter which will be available 02/08/21:
2.) Plot Stability
Before we start…a disclaimer!
From what I can gather, this script was an initial concept, and one I’m...
An excerpt from my script review for Mosul which will be available 12/07/20:
3.) Quality of Characters
Jasem.
A hard as nails father figure to a band of vengeful soldiers in Iraq.
He’s tough. Mostly fair. And understands...
An excerpt from my script review for The Aeronauts which will be available 12/09/19:
2.) Plot
Stability
Anytime the word “aeronaut”
was mentioned, I couldn’t help thinking of this…
https://youtu.be/yE9GyJcVCdU
In that classic from
my childhood, Tom Sawyer consistently...
An excerpt from my script review for Beirut which will be available 05/21/18:
4.) Dialogue and Description
The dialogue had its moments, but unfortunately was too mundane for the most part.
Why do we enjoy...
