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!
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4th Annual Golden Cagey Awards!
Nicholas Cage is here again, celebrating another year of The Golden Cagey Awards. And once...
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...
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...
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 Archenemy which will be available 01/11/21:
4.) Dialogue and Description
First and foremost…
Hamster’s intro dialogue? Not great, especially when he’s trying to convince Melissa to give him...
An excerpt from my script review for Rocketman which will be available 07/28/19:
2.) Plot Stability
Abbreviated.
That’s the word that kept coming to mind as I read this 89 page script.
This tour was 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...
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 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 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...
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 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...
