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...
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...
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 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...
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 Green Book which will be available 01/28/19:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
Based on a true friendship.
Tony “Lip” Vallelonga was a real person, who later became a...
An excerpt from Reals' script review for Chaos Walking which will be available 03/08/21:
What Is It Even About?
Good question, dear reader!
From Chaos Walking’s IMDB Homepage: A dystopian world where there are no women...
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...
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...
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...
An excerpt from Reals script review for The Curse of La Llorona (2019) which will be available 04/29/19:
What Worked
The Concept - This is a creepy idea - a ghostly figure steals children -...
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,...
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...
