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...
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...
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 Gladiator 2 which will be available 01/07/25:
2.) Plot Stability
Apologies in advance to those that have read this story before…
I remember sitting in the theater for...
An excerpt from Reals' script review for Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre which will be available 06/04/23:
What Needs Work
The Title - We have talked a lot about titles recently, particularly because I’ve begun...
Hi. Another Hank review here. Before we start getting into the nitty-gritty though, I need to get something out of the way.
This script (or movie if Tom Cruise has his...
An excerpt from my script review for Creed which will be available 01/18/16:
2.) Plot Stability
First, let me start off by saying I'm a HUGE Rocky fan, and of Mr. Stallone for that...
Hi all.
Today we're looking at one of those movies I've seen beginning to end, but never in order and never in one sitting.
On a whim, I thought it might be fun to...
An excerpt from SK's script review for The Marvel of the Haunted Castle which will be available 04/28/19:
So I'm back again, this time reviewing a somewhat well known unproduced script. Here goes.
Plot:...
Hi all.
Sorry folks, you're stuck with me for the first review of the week.
Just a quick housekeeping note before we get started, if you haven't seen it already, we've now got a...
After some discussion, Roy and I have altered our selection process.
First off, the number of submissions we currently have puts us about 4 months out. That's a solid workload.
In addition to...
