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...
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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...
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...
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 Pet Sematary (2019) which will be available 04/08/19:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
Get ready for a reboot of all things horror from the 80s and 90s!
As...
I got distracted by reading all the audience reviews for this film. I wondered why it had a score of 2 out of 5. And the reasons are hilarious.
I’m not going to...
An excerpt from my script review for Synchronic which will be available 10/26/20:
3.) Quality of Characters
Here’s where we’re going to spend a bit of time.
Character introductions.
Page 13:
Mary Kay Latorno meets Tanya Harding,...
An excerpt from my script review for Green Street Hooligans which will be available 02/21/23:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
Proper. Football.
Now, I’m not here to argue you shouldn’t love American football over “soccer”...
An excerpt from my script review for I Am Mother which will be available 06/18/19:
3.) Quality of Characters
The All Seeing Eye.
You can’t pick and choose when your antagonist is omnipotent.
Sometimes Mother can...
An excerpt from my script review for The Postcard Killings which will be available 06/15/20:
2.) Plot Stability
For the first fifty pages or so I enjoyed the script.
I was engaged. I was interested....
Scary Stories is based on a popular young adult franchise (something that Hank and I have repeatedly mentioned is a huge selling point for a script) which is directed by Andre Ovredal (who...
An excerpt from Reals' script review for Everything Everywhere All At Once which will be available 04/17/22:
What Needs Work
The Title - First things first, let’s talk about that title. It’s awful.
It tells me...
