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 Becky which will be available 06/08/20:
2.) Plot Stability
Let’s start off with what went right.
The key.
We don’t know what it’s to, but by putting it in...
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 SK's script review for Replicas which will be available 01/14/19:
What (Really) Doesn't Work
-I want to talk about character building for a moment here. Basically all we learn about...
An excerpt from my script review for Capone (2020) which will be available 05/18/20:
2.) Plot Stability
Two main concerns here.
First and foremost, I thought this was going to be a “treasure hunt” while...
An excerpt from my script review for First Reformed which will be available 02/04/19:
2.) Plot
Stability
Ideas kick around all
the time in our heads. Some good, some
bad.
The good ones are
what drive us to commit...
An excerpt from my script review for Velvet Buzzsaw which will be available 02/11/19:
3.) Quality of
Characters
First off, poor fucking
Coco.
I agree with the Cap’n
one hundred percent on that and the fact that the...
An excerpt from my script review for Satanic Panic which will be available 09/09/19:
4.) Dialogue and Description
We’ll skip dialogue because it didn’t really do much either good or bad. It served its...
Since Hank and the Captain are taking Brightburn this week for reviews, I thought I would take a look at another “creepy kid” horror picture that also came out this year - though I...
