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25. The Phoenician Scheme – It was reminding me a lot of Wes Anderson’s older films, before he got heavy into making films that seem more like plays. But I’d...
An excerpt from my script review for Weapons which will be available 01/20/26:
3.) Quality of Characters
Before we go too far into this…
Maddie’s voice over in the beginning.
She opens the story, but then...
An excerpt from my script review for Anaconda which will be available 01/13/26:
2.) Plot Stability
This felt very Jaws like, in that there’s a lot of eerie shit going on and we don’t...
An excerpt from my script review for KPop Demon Hunters which will be available 12/31/25:
https://youtu.be/LW9QJIT_T-A
Summer 2025. New Smyrna Beach, FL.
Now if you remember the previous family summer vacation we witnessed the glory...
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...
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.
The last week of HORROR MONTH is regrettably here. I still have a few days left, but I wanted to get this out there in case you see something you were thinking...
Hey All,
Happy (belated) New Year! I hope that you haven’t missed me too much (traveling all over the world, but now I’m back and rarin’ to get reviewin’!)
I thought I would make...
An excerpt from my script review for World War Z which will be available 08/26/25:
4.) Dialogue and Description
Alright, here’s the main focus of discussion.
So this script was 120 pages of actual text....
An excerpt from my script review for Hypnotic which will be available 05/22/23:
4.) Dialogue and Description
On the dialogue…
https://youtu.be/moAZ3AsyhLU
Desperado was a decent enough film, probably one of the earlier DVDs I purchased in...
An excerpt from my script review for Quarantine (2008) which will be available 04/13/20:
4.) Dialogue and Description
The dialogue was fine for this type of project.
Would Quarantine win major awards for Best Screenplay? Probably not because it’s not...
An excerpt from my script review for The Lighthouse which will be available 10/28/19:
5.) Format
A bit to cover here.
First…
NOTE:
This film must be photographed on black and white 35mm negative.
Aspect ratio: 1.19:1
Audio mix: Mono
Please…please…please don’t...
An excerpt from my script review for Project Power which will be available 08/17/20:
1.) Marketability of the Idea
Originally titled Power and a former Hit List script, I believe.
(Someone somewhere told me it was on...
An excerpt from my script review for Arkansas which will be available 08/03/20:
3.) Quality of Characters
Easily the highlight of this script.
“What is the most interesting way your character can say that?”
The above...
