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.
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 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse which will be available 01/01/19:
3.) Quality of
Characters
Miles v. Jefferson v. Aaron.
This triangle had spectacular
possibilities.
Miles and his dad,
Jefferson, don’t see eye to...
One look at my worst list and you might confuse it for just about everyone’s best list. I really tried to like these films that others were raving about, I really did....
An excerpt from Reals' script review for Preacher (2010) Unproduced John August which will be available 05/18/18:
What Worked
Lots of white space - that is great!
This is a cool line (and likely visual):
DEBLANC...
An excerpt from my script review for Death Wish which will be available 03/05/18:
3.) Quality of Characters
Converting your hero into an antihero.
We’re presented with Paul Kersey as a giver of life right...
An excerpt from my script review for All Inclusive by Kyle Bowler from this year's Fresh Blood Selects which will be available 10/29/18 (the review, not the list):
2.) Plot Stability
Any story is...
An excerpt from my script review for Triple Frontier which will be available 03/12/19:
3.) Quality of Characters
The one thing this script did well was present the argument of murder on one’s own...
An excerpt from my script review for The House with a Clock in its Walls which will be available 12/10/18:
4.) Dialogue and Description
Similar to the “mental sigh” I had last week, I...
