F Valentine’s Day – What does it remind YOU of?

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...

Superman – Skip the Origin Story!

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 25 Worst Films of 2025

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...

Weapons – Revisited!

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...

Anaconda – Who’s the REAL monster in this story?

An excerpt from my script review for Anaconda which will be available 01/13/26: 2.) Plot Stability This felt very Jaws like, in that there’s a lot of eerie shit going on and we don’t...

KPop Demon Hunters – Were YOU part of this Netflix phenom?

An excerpt from my script review for KPop Demon Hunters which will be available 12/31/25: https://youtu.be/LW9QJIT_T-A Summer 2025. New Smyrna Beach, FL. Now if you remember the previous family summer vacation we witnessed the glory...
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Write to Reals: Dolly Dearest – Script Review

An excerpt from Reals' script review for Dolly Dearest which will be available 04/17/20: Hey All! Glad to be checking back in with everyone - hope you all are staying safe and healthy during...

The Beach Bum – Self-Indulged Nonsense.

Hi all. Today we're taking an "in-depth" look at The Beach Bum. 1.) Marketability of the Idea https://youtu.be/kxJPQlPIzKI 2.) Plot Stability https://youtu.be/8QEAA94FjHc 3.) Quality of Characters https://youtu.be/iggA6dHDK5o 4.) Dialogue and Description https://youtu.be/Dvi8P-lhJmE 5.) Format https://youtu.be/wD2cVhC-63I 6.) What I liked... Alright.  Alright. 7.) What needs work... Needs one more “alright”. Rating: Read it if you can...

Long Shot – The Dangers of an Affair Devoid of Consequence

An excerpt from my script review for Long Shot which will be available 05/06/19: 2.) Plot Stability The Seven Year Itch is a real phenomenon. Sure it might not be right at seven years to the day,...

The Front Runner – 1988’s #MeToo Movement?

An excerpt from my script review for The Front Runner which will be available 11/27/18: 4.) Dialogue and Description I mentioned in the marketability section that the second half of this story felt very...

Knives Out – Structure Amateurs Shouldn’t Emulate

An excerpt from my script review for Knives Out which will be available 12/02/19: 4.) Dialogue and Description We’re going to skip past the description since it was decent enough to get the job...

Shazam! – And a few other things the Cap’n gets off his chest…

I had the worst nightmare recently, where I got an advance copy of Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time in Hollywood and it was this PG-13 unwatchable garbage. Also, it might have...

Jolt – Don’t Drag Out Dialogue

An excerpt from my script review for Jolt which will be available 07/27/21: 4.) Dialogue and Description Get this out of the way first, the description was fine, if not a bit cheesy at...

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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