May the 4th Be With You! – The Star Wars First (and STILL rough) Draft

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,...

AI vs. Hollywood – Where are we headed?

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...

The Invisible Man – Mine that public domain!

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...

Send Help – The same, only different.

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...

Roofman – Could Channing save it?

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...

What Could Have Been: Captain Blood Reboot (1994)

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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The United States vs. Billie Holiday – Was there enough in it?

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...

Synchronic – Character Intros

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,...

Write to Reals: Everything Everywhere All At Once

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 Double Feature 2021: Paranormal Activity – Next of Kin

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...

The Postcard Killings – Entertain your audience for all, not just half, of your story.

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....

Write to Reals: Pet Sematary Film Review (2019)

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...

Write to Reals: Moonfall – Script Review

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...

Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022) – Noteworthy changes from script to screen.

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...

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