An excerpt from my script review for Star Wars First Draft which will be available 05/04/26:
2.) Plot Stability
When he was trying to launch this new universe, I knew George Lucas had trouble,...
Hi all.
No review today. Instead I wanted to take a bit of time and discuss something that’s been kicking around upstairs for yours truly, and mentioned more frequently in some of the...
An excerpt from my script review for The Invisible Man (2020) which will be available 04/20/26:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
To be clear, I’ve never read the novel by H.G. Wells.
I’ve also never...
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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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 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 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...
With Ma (2019) coming out recently and Hank giving that a review, I thought I would review a piece that is similar in concept and tone - Greta (2019). To be fair, I haven’t heard much...
An excerpt from my script review for the 2015 unproduced Gambit script which will be available 08/08/24:
2.) Plot Stability
Okay, so here’s a little background from SK’s review of the Gambit script…
Gambit was...
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 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...