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.
It has been the year of Stephen King! We have had so many of his stories turned into films and television shows in just 2019 alone. I thought some were really good: In...
Oh boy.
Velvet Buzzsaw is a goddamn muddled mess of a film and another example of Dan Gilroy’s lack of directorial talent.Â
https://youtu.be/XdAR-lK43YU
I’ve come to the conclusion that he’s a fantastic writer, but he...
An excerpt from my script review for Tomb Raider which will be available 03/19/18:
2.) Plot Stability
Aside from the fact that the World’s G8est Actor, Mr. Walton Goggins, should make this an instant...
An excerpt from Reals' script review for Power of the Dog which will be available 03/14/22:
What Needs Work
The Marriage - Strangely enough, George and Rose happen to get married OFF-SCREEN and kind of...
An excerpt from Reals' script review for Suspiria which will be available 11/05/18:
What Worked
-- Pg. 28 - 29 - This is a little bit creepy - the scene with Olga stuck in...
An excerpt from my script review for Peppermint which will be available 09/24/18:
4.) Dialogue and Description
Paint your reader a mental picture.
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WE MOVE over LA. At CHRISTMAS. Tinsel on the HOOKERS.
Santa hats...
I missed out seeing the first Avatar film in theaters, so this time I really wanted to do it right, in a theater with 3D glasses uncomfortably fitted over my eyeglasses. The...
