Horror Month 2026 – Week 1

It's the Capn's favorite time of year!!! Don't forget you can follow along with him in real time via X: https://x.com/CPeachfuzz And new this year, he does YouTube Shorts reviews for some of his...

Motor City: No Dialogue – good storytelling or cheap gimmick?

An excerpt from my script review for Motor City which will be available 10/04/26: 4.) Dialogue and Description You read it in the title of this review… Is the “no dialogue” a worthy storytelling method...

Resident Evil – A Nod to the Fans?

An excerpt from my script review for Resident Evil (2026) which will be available 09/29/26: 2.) Plot Stability After reading the initial portions of the Capn’s review, I paused to see if the script...

Resident Evil (2026) A Deconstructed Video Game Movie Adaptation

I would have liked to review this movie on the start of Horror Month, but Sony had other plans, I guess. You could say I’m a longtime Resident Evil game fan, going all...

It Waits – Description that kills…your reader’s interest.

An excerpt from my script review for It Waits which will be available 09/22/26: 4.) Dialogue and Description The main thing we’re going to cover here is reviewing the amateur tendencies to include what...

28 Years Later – Not as bad as everyone says?

An excerpt from my script review for 28 Years Later which will be available 09/02/26: 2.) Plot Stability Truth be told I probably should have seen or read the second installment before the third. By...
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F Valentine’s Day – What does it remind YOU of?

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...

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...

I Am Mother – Set Rules for Your Antagonist and Stick to Them!

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...

Cats – The Cap’n DARES You to Say You Like It!

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...

Black Panther – Are your script’s visuals “mentally digestible”?

An excerpt from my script review for Black Panther which will be available 01/07/19: 4.) Dialogue and Description This was a very visual dependent project. The issue, for us as novices at least, is that...

Write to Reals: Murder Mystery – Can Netflix just STOP with Mr. Sandler already?

So, after Murder Mystery "allegedly" became one of Netflix’s most streamed original films, I figured that I would check it out. Yes, I know - it’s an Adam Sandler PG-13 comedy. However, I have actually enjoyed many...

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...

What Could Have Been… – Goyer’s version of The Flash

An excerpt from my script review for David Goyer's The Flash which will be available 06/19/23: 1.) Marketability of the Idea It’s time for another installment of What Could Have Been… This was rumored to...

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