An excerpt from my script review for Send Help which will be available 04/14/26:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
Give me the same, only different. – Sam Raimi
Misery meets Castaway was in all the comments on the...
An excerpt from my script review for Roofman which will be available 04/06/26:
5.) Format
This Saturday I had absolutely nothing going on.
Brought the boy home from college Friday afternoon, and he spent all...
An excerpt from my script review for Captain Blood (1994) which will be available 04/01/26:
2.) Plot Stability
My biggest complaint, aside from the similarities in the previous section?
Way too many sea battles.
Listen, I...
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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...
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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 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...
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 MUTE which will be available 02/24/18:
What Needs Work
Pg. 1 - 2 - I don't think we really needed to spend 2 pages showing that he...
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 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 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...