An excerpt from my script review for Roofman which will be available 04/06/26:
5.) Format
This Saturday I had absolutely nothing going on.
Brought the boy home from college Friday afternoon, and he spent all...
An excerpt from my script review for Captain Blood (1994) which will be available 04/01/26:
2.) Plot Stability
My biggest complaint, aside from the similarities in the previous section?
Way too many sea battles.
Listen, I...
Here's the Captain's Top 10 Films of 2025!
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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...
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 Da 5 Bloods which will be available 06/29/30:
5.) Format
This script is why I suggest new writers always read a group of popular scripts of varying...
An excerpt from Reals' script review for The Apology which will be available 11/18/19:
The story is about a retired schoolteacher who has spent 30 years searching for her missing daughter, only to...
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...
An excerpt from my script review for You Should Have Left which will be available 06/22/20:
3.) Quality of Characters
Two layers of tension.
We have the obvious horror layer from above, that again worked...
An excerpt from my script review for Hunter Killer which will be available 02/25/19:
3.) Quality of
Characters
Most of us know by
now the importance of well drawn, “three dimensional” characters in a stories.
These characters
should...
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...
An excerpt from my script review for Parasite which will be available 02/25/2020:
3.) Quality of
Characters
The main family (the
Kims?) are all a bunch of unlikable folks, and that’s okay when you think of...
When it comes to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre films, there are so many sequels, remakes, prequels… I have no idea where this new one falls under. The only Texas Chainsaw Massacre film...
