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...
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...
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...
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 Songbird which will be available 02/22/21:
3.) Quality of Characters
Similar to Crash, it was good how all the characters’ lives and stories were interconnected.
That enhances your...
An excerpt from my script review for Coming 2 America which will be available 03/15/21:
5.) Format
Coming this week or next, we have an interview 3way did with a screenwriting member of the...
Today what I have for you is a horror movie (are you really surprised?) that comes to us courtesy of Netflix called The Perfection. Now, this is not just any horror film, but...
An excerpt from my script review for The Tax Collector which will be available 08/24/20:
2.) Plot Stability
The idea we’re going to focus on here is the importance of getting to the “good...
An excerpt from my script review for Encanto which will be available 02/07/22:
3.) Quality of Characters
Here’s where I want to focus most of my time.
Mainly on Abuela.
The writers inadvertently gave us an...
An excerpt from my script review for Misery which will be available 01/01/20:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
Words to paper. Fingers to keyboard.
However you want to think about it, consider me your Annie Wilkes...
An excerpt from my script review for TENET which will be available 12/28/20:
4.) Dialogue and Description
Remember, you are not Chris Nolan.
If you’re writing a spec script with a complex plot/twist like Inception, Interstellar, or Tenet you might want to...
From IMDB: A daughter, mother and grandmother are haunted by a manifestation of dementia that consumes their family's home.
Relic, not to be confused with the 1997 film titled THE Relic, was released on VOD...
