The Invisible Man – Mine that public domain!

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...

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...
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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...

The Predator – Respect Your Reader, Please!

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...

Jungleland – Are YOUR Characters Reliable?

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...

Silk Road – Enough Suspense?

An excerpt from my script review for Silk Road which will be available 03/22/21: 2.) Plot Stability Simply put, it was a less fun version of Catch Me If You Can. Now, that’s one of the...

Tesla – Is your script a duplicate idea?

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)...

Overlord – Lovable Meat for the Grinder!

An excerpt from my script review for Overlord which will be available 11/20/18: 3.) Quality of Characters The Captain mentioned this also in his review of the film. Lovable meat for the grinder. All You Need...

It All Begins With a Song – Nashville Documentary Review

Hello everyone! Today I am excited to bring you another documentary review of a project called It All Begins With a Song. Our friends at TriCoast Entertainment enjoyed my review of Bombshells and Dollies (which...

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...

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