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...
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...
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An excerpt from my script review for Angel Has Fallen which will be available 08/27/19:
4.) Dialogue and Description
The banter between Banning and Davis/Trumbull was all pretty good and lent to why I...
An excerpt from my script review for The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015) which will be available 05/04/20:
2.) Plot Stability
A buddy spy film with a lot of clichés.
The first part of that statement...
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...
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...
Oh boy.
Velvet Buzzsaw is a goddamn muddled mess of a film and another example of Dan Gilroy’s lack of directorial talent.
https://youtu.be/XdAR-lK43YU
I’ve come to the conclusion that he’s a fantastic writer, but he...
I am not he biggest fan of Spike Lee. I prefer his more Hollywood mainstream films, rather than his I have a message films. Da 5 Bloods is 100% one of those...
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...
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...
