An excerpt from my script review for Star Wars First Draft which will be available 05/04/26:
2.) Plot Stability
When he was trying to launch this new universe, I knew George Lucas had trouble,...
Hi all.
No review today. Instead I wanted to take a bit of time and discuss something that’s been kicking around upstairs for yours truly, and mentioned more frequently in some of the...
An excerpt from my script review for The Invisible Man (2020) which will be available 04/20/26:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
To be clear, I’ve never read the novel by H.G. Wells.
I’ve also never...
An excerpt from my script review for Send Help which will be available 04/14/26:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
Give me the same, only different. – Sam Raimi
Misery meets Castaway was in all the comments on the...
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...
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An excerpt from my script review for The United States vs. Billie Holiday which will be available 03/29/21:
5.) Format
80 pages for any script feels light, especially one that’s based on a book...
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 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...
Halloween might be over but there’s still time for at least one more horror film to review. And since Army of Thieves was in no way a horror movie, or a good...
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....
Hey everyone! Today I’m taking a look at the 2019 film version of Pet Sematary (by the way, the film never explains why it is spelled like that, but a quick Google...
An excerpt from Reals' script review for Moonfall which will be available 02/15/22:
What Needed Work
Lots of “We See”, “We Do”, etc. - Even in just the first page I counted four instances of...
An excerpt from my script review for Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers which will be available 05/30/22:
3.) Quality of Characters
First difference and a huge improvement?
In the script the bad guy is Mean Dean, a...