Horror Month 2025: Week 1

The first week of Horror Month is complete! Here is everything I watched. Feel free to list every horror related movie or series you watched as well, I'm always on the hunt...

What Could Have Been: Vanderbilt’s The Long Walk Adaptation

An excerpt from my script review for The Long Walk (unproduced by James Vanderbilt) which will be available 10/06/25: 2.) Plot Stability Just a reminder, this is for Vanderbilt’s unproduced version and not the...

Horror Month 2025!

It’s that time again, the month of all things spooky, creepy and stinky. Because like every year, I know a majority of the films on this list are going to be real...

Him (2025) – WTF?!…but in a GOOD way!

An excerpt from my script review for Him (aka The Goat) which will be available 09/29/25: 2.) Plot Stability I thoroughly enjoyed this script. Benny is entering Connor’s world, and he feels like he’s by himself, but...

The Sting – Does it still hold up? (…and RIP Robert Redford)

An excerpt from my script review for The Sting (1973) which will be available 09/23/25: 1.) Marketability of the Idea So…this was started yesterday, but mom is visiting from Florida all week. Over the weekend we...

What Could Have Been – Roger Rabbit 2: The Toon Platoon

An excerpt from my script review for Roger Rabbit 2: The Toon Platoon which will be available 09/15/25: 2.) Plot Stability Admittedly I did minimal research before reading this script so as not to persuade my...
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Wrath of Man – Unfortunately not THAT one…

An excerpt from my script review for Wrath of Man which will be available 10/04/21: 1.) Marketability of the IdeaThank God for Guy Ritchie dialogue.A few weeks back, I was waiting for the...

Write to Reals: Countdown (2019) – What it did Right!

An excerpt from Reals' script review for Countdown which will be available 10/28/19: What Worked The Length - It is good that this was only a 95 page script. For a horror, typically you should...

Write to Reals: Animal House II – Michael, Matty & Andrew B. Simmons (Unproduced) – Disjointed plot, but did it pave the way for...

An excerpt from Reals' script review for Animal House II by Michael, Matty & Andrew B. Simmons (Unproduced) which will be available 06/21/18: What Needs Work Pg. 2 - I’m not sure they are...

Truth or Dare – Know the Rules!

An excerpt from my script review for Truth or Dare which will be available 04/20/20: 2.) Plot Stability What’s with recent scripts and all the bad stuff happening in Mexico? This one had a burnt...

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...

The Old Man and the Gun – Format that Values Your Reader’s Time

An excerpt from my script review for The Old Man and the Gun which will be available 02/18/19: 5.) Format If I’m counting them all correctly there were 6 revisions. Now, that’s not a horrible thing, but...

Spider-Man: Far From Home – Is the Cap’n the Only One with Marvel Fatigue?

As much as I like Marvel films, the fatigue has fully set in now. I forget which review I mentioned this already in, possibly the Dark Phoenix review but to recap, I’m...

Rocketman – Too Short for a Worthy Biopic?

An excerpt from my script review for Rocketman which will be available 07/28/19: 2.) Plot Stability Abbreviated. That’s the word that kept coming to mind as I read this 89 page script. This tour was a...

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