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!
(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...
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 The Gentleman which will be available 01/26/20:
4.) Dialogue and Description
The description was fine except for the overuse of the word “skunk” when referring to weed.
Supper...
It had been a good while since I’ve seen the original 1984 film version of Dune. I think what got my interested in seeing it in the first place was that scene...
An excerpt from Reals' script review for The Invisible Man - Unproduced 2010 David Goyer which will be available 02/27/2020:
What Needed Work
The Opening - I didn’t like how we started with a voice-over...
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...
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...
We went from having nothing to watch and review, to a single day having at least 6 films worth watching and reviewing. Movies might not be coming to theaters, but they are...
Hey Everyone!
I thought for The Captain's Super-Special Horror Month I would do something a bit different! This month, Amazon Studios teamed up with Blumhouse to release 4 new horror films directly to...
I think the trailer tells you everything you need to know about the disaster that is Cats. There’s no hiding how bad the animation looks or how terrifying they all are...
