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 Mission: Impossible Fallout which will be available 05/23/22:
5.) Format
What is the acceptable format for scripts?
Lucky for you there’s no exact structure, just some things that are accepted...
An excerpt from my script review for Hustlers which will be available 09/17/19:
3.) Quality of
Characters
What made me
interested in this script was a review of the film on NPR.
Here the male host
talked about...
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,...
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...
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 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...
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 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...