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...
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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 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 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...
An excerpt from Reals' script review for Bullet Train which will be available 08/07/22:
2.) Plot Stability
I’ve said it before and I will say it again: Keep It Simple, Star!
For Bullet Train, we have this...
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 David Goyer's The Flash which will be available 06/19/23:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
It’s time for another installment of What Could Have Been…
This was rumored to...
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...
