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...
An excerpt from my script review for Superman (2025) which will be available 02/09/26:
2.) Plot Stability
The thing I liked about this, and Matt Reeves The Batman, is that we’re moving away from including...
The Captain's List is in!!!
25. The Phoenician Scheme – It was reminding me a lot of Wes Anderson’s older films, before he got heavy into making films that seem more like plays. But I’d...
An excerpt from my script review for Weapons which will be available 01/20/26:
3.) Quality of Characters
Before we go too far into this…
Maddie’s voice over in the beginning.
She opens the story, but then...
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.
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...
An excerpt from my script review for Jungleland which will be available 11/23/20:
3.) Quality of Characters
Stanley is the older sibling who watches out for his kid brother Lion.
See, Lion’s pretty slow mentally…when...
An excerpt from my script review for The Predator (2018) which will be available 09/17/18:
4.) Dialogue and Description
Typical Shane Black description and dialogue.
Some of it works, some of it doesn’t.
One good trait...
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...
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...
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 Tesla which will be available 09/14/20:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
The Current War.
I can remember watching something on the History Channel (maybe The Men Who Built America)...
An excerpt from my article about Using AI to write Screenplays which will be available 04/24/23:
Prediction: Writing a screenplay is about to get a whole lot easier, but selling it…a whole lot...
