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.
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...
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 Fantasy Island (2020) which will be available 05/25/20:
2.) Plot Stability
It didn’t scare me silly, and with the light horror it’s probably something I can watch...
An excerpt from my script review for Stuber which will be available 07/15/19:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
Going to come right out and say it. I enjoyed this script.
A comedy that’s a reverse Collateral.
Knowing...
Mortal Kombat
More like Mortal Borebat.
No, wait... I can do better than that. Hold on. I know.
Mortal Kombat? More like Mortal Mehbat.
There. Nailed it.
https://youtu.be/NYH2sLid0Zc
Originally, my expectations for this movie being any good were...
Passing by Rebecca HallBased on the Novella of the same name by Nella Larsen, published in 1929Second draft revisions, dated July 26, 2017
https://youtu.be/trwq3CNCMkU
Book Description: Clare and Irene were two childhood friends. They lost...
With zero fanfare, or buzz or anticipation whatsoever, Netflix has released the second half of Rebel Moon, giving it the ridiculous title The Scargiver.
https://youtu.be/UEJuNHOd8Dw
If you thought now your questions would finally be...
An excerpt from my script review for Green Street Hooligans which will be available 02/21/23:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
Proper. Football.
Now, I’m not here to argue you shouldn’t love American football over “soccer”...
