The Captain's List is in!!!
25. The Phoenician Scheme – It was reminding me a lot of Wes Anderson’s older films, before he got heavy into making films that seem more like plays. But I’d...
An excerpt from my script review for Weapons which will be available 01/20/26:
3.) Quality of Characters
Before we go too far into this…
Maddie’s voice over in the beginning.
She opens the story, but then...
An excerpt from my script review for Anaconda which will be available 01/13/26:
2.) Plot Stability
This felt very Jaws like, in that there’s a lot of eerie shit going on and we don’t...
An excerpt from my script review for KPop Demon Hunters which will be available 12/31/25:
https://youtu.be/LW9QJIT_T-A
Summer 2025. New Smyrna Beach, FL.
Now if you remember the previous family summer vacation we witnessed the glory...
An excerpt from my script review for Is This Thing On? which will be available 12/22/25:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
I forget exactly where I read it, but this is loosely based on...
An excerpt from my script review for The Cabin in the Woods which will be available 12/08/25:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
Have you ever stopped to think that a title works as a...
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 Unicorn Store which will be available 04/29/19:
3.) Quality of
Characters
Following the line
of thinking from above, as serious as some of these situations could have been
for Kit,...
Where did we leave off after Parabellum? Does anyone remember?
To recap, John Wick, an unstoppable killing machine, gets shot off a building by his trusted friend Winston played by Ian McShane one...
I might be wrong, but I think this is the third Ryan Reynolds film he’s done for Netflix. Or maybe this is just his second, with 6 Underground being his first. Which...
An excerpt from my script review for Nomadland which will be available 03/01/21:
2.) Plot Stability
The story?
Fern visits places, meets new people, and works the odd seasonal job.
What drew me in?
Wall Drug.
South Dakota...
An excerpt from my script review for Without Remorse which will be available 05/03/21:
4.) Dialogue and Description
(NOTE - For whatever reason John Clark is called "John Kelly" in the script.)
Honestly, the dialogue...
From Dusk till Dawn is not only one of my favorite Quentin Tarantino scripts but is hands down Robert Rodriguez’s best work. That isn’t to say this is the best thing QT...
HORROR MONTH WEEKLY WRAP-UP
Week 1
Alone – First film to kick off Horror Month and to my surprise, it was pretty fantastic. It’s an intense thriller with a lead actress we want to...
An excerpt from my script review for Barb and Star Go to Del Vista Mar which will be available 04/05/21:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
Aside from consistently saying they were going to Del...
