Send Help – The same, only different.

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...

Roofman – Could Channing save it?

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...

What Could Have Been: Captain Blood Reboot (1994)

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...

10 Best Films of 2025 – aka 4th Annual Cagey Awards!!!

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...

Marty Supreme – Was Chalamet stuck in character?

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...

The Lost Boys – Gratuitous Sax Done Right.

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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Write to Reals – Slender Man (2018): Can it meet fans’ expectations?

An excerpt from Reals' script review for Slender Man which will be available 08/13/18: What Needs Work -- Pg. 3 - They all died. That's a pretty boring way to start because now I...

The Sleepover – Are your characters annoying readers?

An excerpt from my script review for The Sleepover which will be available 09/21/20: 3.) Quality of Characters First and foremost…Glen. Now I’m rooting for Ken Marino. Mother fucker still has the wife and I...

Godzilla vs. Kong – Just turn your brain off?

The first thing that grabbed my attention was Adam Wingard’s name as the director popping up in the opening credits. I thought, huh, now that’s an interesting choice. He’s never done anything...

Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw – A Fun Spin-off?

You know summer has officially kicked off when a new Fast & Furious blockbuster hits theaters. The question however is, is the first spinoff film for the long and never ending franchise...

The Little Things – Trimming the fat from script to screen!

An excerpt from my script review for The Little Things which will be available 02/01/21: 2.) Plot Stability Just like 3way, I too enjoyed this script. So much so, in fact, that no sooner had...

Write to Reals: The Witch in the Window (2018) – Slow Burn Horror Done Right

Now, I know this is not what many would consider a “mainstream’ horror film, as it is a Shudder exclusive (Shudder being a streaming platform that contains only horror… so essentially a...

Come to Daddy – From the folks who brought you Mandy!

Not to be confused with the Aphex Twin song of the same name. https://youtu.be/TZ827lkktYs From the writer of The Greasy Strangler and not much else and technically by the producer of Mandy...

Extraction – Is Netflix getting their money’s worth?

An excerpt from my script review for Extraction which will be available 04/27/20: 1.) Marketability of the Idea Another Netflix project. More than just me, but there’s a certain stigma for these features that are...

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