Horror Month 2025: Week 1

The first week of Horror Month is complete! Here is everything I watched. Feel free to list every horror related movie or series you watched as well, I'm always on the hunt...

What Could Have Been: Vanderbilt’s The Long Walk Adaptation

An excerpt from my script review for The Long Walk (unproduced by James Vanderbilt) which will be available 10/06/25: 2.) Plot Stability Just a reminder, this is for Vanderbilt’s unproduced version and not the...

Horror Month 2025!

It’s that time again, the month of all things spooky, creepy and stinky. Because like every year, I know a majority of the films on this list are going to be real...

Him (2025) – WTF?!…but in a GOOD way!

An excerpt from my script review for Him (aka The Goat) which will be available 09/29/25: 2.) Plot Stability I thoroughly enjoyed this script. Benny is entering Connor’s world, and he feels like he’s by himself, but...

The Sting – Does it still hold up? (…and RIP Robert Redford)

An excerpt from my script review for The Sting (1973) which will be available 09/23/25: 1.) Marketability of the Idea So…this was started yesterday, but mom is visiting from Florida all week. Over the weekend we...

What Could Have Been – Roger Rabbit 2: The Toon Platoon

An excerpt from my script review for Roger Rabbit 2: The Toon Platoon which will be available 09/15/25: 2.) Plot Stability Admittedly I did minimal research before reading this script so as not to persuade my...
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Body Cam – Be cautious when incorporating a social message.

An excerpt from my script review for Body Cam which will be available 06/01/20: 1.) Marketability of the Idea Social. Commentary. This is a tricky thing to write into, and even harder to pull off,...

Gambit – Revisting this Cancelled X-Men Script

An excerpt from my script review for the 2015 unproduced Gambit script which will be available 08/08/24: 2.) Plot Stability Okay, so here’s a little background from SK’s review of the Gambit script… Gambit was...

Psycho – An Oldie but a Goodie!

An excerpt from my script review for Psycho (1960) which will be available 03/29/20: 3.) Quality of Characters Nervous character making poor decisions. Of course this begins with Mary, who steals the money and practically wears the guilt...

Unhinged – Be Ready with YOUR Contained Thrillers/Horror

An excerpt from my script review for which will be available 08/30/20: 1.) Marketability of the Idea In addition to all our old arguments for writing a lower budget horror script, there’s something...

Tolkien – Can Flashbacks Inside Flashbacks Work in Scripts?

An excerpt from my script review for Tolkien which will be available 08/05/19: 2.) Plot Stability What I’d like to focus on here is the idea of… Flashing back inside a flashback. Normally I’d warn writers...

Those Who Wish Me Dead – “Let him burn, I say.”

The first thing that really stood out to me was the title. Those Who Wish Me Dead. Which as of right now I’m realizing isn’t Those Who WANT Me Dead. Seeing as this...

Air – How Michael joined Nike.

An excerpt from my script review for Air (2023) which will be available 04/11/23: 2.) Plot Stability Remember the Steve Jobs project by Aaron Sorkin? This script kind of felt like that. It was good, but it really...

Green Street Hooligans – An American Explains English Football

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”...

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