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...
An excerpt from my script review for The Running Man which will be available 11/19/25:
2.) Plot Stability
With a few minor exceptions, this script follows the 1987 version of the film pretty closely.
One...
An excerpt from my script review for Prey which will be available 11/10/25:
2.) Plot Stability
This came out during that magical time after Covid that the Cap’n and I were so fond of.
Theaters...
I really didn’t think I’d like the first Black Phone movie as much as I did. I don’t know if it was the trailers or the fact it was another Blumhouse film,...
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Coyotes - I was hoping for a bit more humor and a lot more gore. Instead, I got annoyed by the...
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An excerpt from my script review for Brightburn which will be available 05/27/19:
5.) Format
MINI SLUGLINES
Every now and then we have writers asking about quick and efficient ways to switch what the reader...
An excerpt from my script review for The Rhythm Section which will be available 02/03/2020:
1.) Marketability
of the Idea
So this is Daniel
Craig’s last Bond flick.
Who’s going to
replace him?
Is Blake Lively
throwing her hat into...
An excerpt from my script review for The First Purge which will be available 05/14/19:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
The Purge is one of those cool ideas that create profitable franchises.
Similar to Saw you take a...
An excerpt from my script review for An American Pickle which will be available 08/10/20:
3.) Quality of Characters
After the whole “pickling process” concern, this was the second biggest pill to swallow.
The weird...
An excerpt from my script review for Ma which will be available 06/11/19:
2.) Plot Stability
Once we’re past the premise of the previous section, this story was a bit of a mess.
We get...
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...
An excerpt from my script review for Ready or Not which will be available 09/02/19:
3.) Quality of
Characters
The one thing this
script had going for it were the character relationships, and how some of...
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...
