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...

The Lost Boys – Gratuitous Sax Done Right.

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...

Sinners – Two brothers walk into a vampire bar…

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...
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Vice – Entertain Your Reader!

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...

Eurovision: The Story of Fire Saga – Does your script respect your reader?

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...

I Think We’re Alone Now – Importance of Conflicting Characters in Contained Pieces

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...

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...

Avengers: Endgame Review (And BONUS Game of Thrones Rant!)

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...

Joker – Congrats and thank you, Mr. Phillips.

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...

Cabin Fever 2 – Is the script “Low Budget” or “Contained”?

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...

Write to Reals: A Vigilante (2019) – The Importance of Delivering on a Premise

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...

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