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...
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...
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.
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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...
The Hunt is one of 2019’s most controversial films… well, not really, but the release was originally pulled from the Universal Pictures release schedule due to the backlash from social media because of the content...
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...
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 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...
What makes a Christmas movie, a Christmas movie? It has long been debated if classics like Die Hard is a Christmas movie. It is. And the same goes to The Nightmare Before...
An excerpt from my script review for Creed II which will be available 07/01/19:
4.) Dialogue and Description
Okay, so I really hope the whole Peter Petrelli subplot wasn't in Creed II, and here's why.
https://youtu.be/mk82j1jQw_8
That...
