Does Home For The Holidays feel too “been there done that?” Or does Carson simply not have a sense of humor? Read on to find out! Amateur Friday Submission Process: To submit your script for an Amateur Review, send in a PDF of your script, a PDF of the first ten pages of your script, […]

So you’re currently preparing to write your next script. And it’s a drama. I have some advice for you. Don’t do it. Stay away. Avoid the drama spec at all costs. Why? There are tons of reasons. But let me break down some of the big ones for you. Drama specs don’t sell. Or, at […]

Genre: Sci-fi Premise: (from IMDB) A veteran assigned to extract Earth’s remaining resources begins to question what he knows about his mission and himself. About: While this draft was written by “The Departed” screenwriter William Monahan, Monahan didn’t seem to make the final cut when the credits were given out. The writer doing the revisions […]

Forrest Gump may be one of the biggest anomalies in the history of moviemaking. There’s nothing here to indicate it should’ve worked besides, maybe, Tom Hanks. As a story, it goes against pretty much every rule out there. There is no goal. There are no obstacles. There’s no urgency. No real stakes to speak of. […]

Can an Evil Dead update turn what was only a cult hit into a bona fide box office success? Genre: Horror Premise: (from imdb) Five friends head to a remote cabin, where the discovery of a Book of the Dead leads them to unwittingly summon up demons living in the nearby woods. The evil presence […]