Hi all.
No review today. Instead I wanted to take a bit of time and discuss something that’s been kicking around upstairs for yours truly, and mentioned more frequently in some of the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
This weekend might be too much to handle, as not only is Endgame here, so is the epic battle in Game of Thrones where I’m sure numerous characters are about to meet...
An excerpt from my script review for Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga which will be available 07/06/20:
4.) Dialogue and Description
Let’s get the bad out of the way first.
Huge blocks...
An excerpt from my script review for Vice which will be available 12/24/18:
4.) Dialogue and
Description
The tone of this
script is what entertained me the most.
From the opening
caveat of being as true as they...
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...
An excerpt from my script review for I Think We're Alone Now which will be available 10/01/18:
3.) Quality of Characters
If we’re going any sort of contained route (or limited budget) we must...
I hadn’t heard much about this film until it popped up on my Suggested List on Amazon Prime. After doing a bit of research (mainly watching the TRAILER), I was in.
I mean, it...
Just recently, Martin Scorsese has come out against superhero movies, calling them more theme parks than cinematic cinema. On one hand, I do agree with him. But I don’t exactly see what...
An excerpt from my script review for Cabin Fever 2 (2009) which will be available 05/11/20:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
Right off the bat, know nothing about this script aside from the Cap’n...
