A quick note to drop by this Wednesday as I’ll be posting a review for the first script to break into my Top 10 in over a year! Genre: Crime/Caper/ComedyPremise: An art curator enlists the services of a Texas chicken farmer to con a wealthy collector into buying a phony Monet painting.About: They’ve been trying […]

Genre: ComedyPremise: After receiving panicked messages from a girl he’s been Facebook-stalking, a meek agoraphobe wrangles together his closest internet friends and journeys into the real world to find her.About: Every Friday, I review a script from the readers of the site. If you’re interested in submitting your script for an Amateur Review, send it […]

The word “rules” stirs up a lot of debate in the University of Screenwriting. Some believe there should be no rules when you write. Others believe rules are the lifeblood of a screenplay. I fall somewhere in between. You definitely need to know the rules. Whether you choose to use them, however, is up to […]

Genre: Family/FantasyPremise: 13 year old aspiring inventor Andrew Henry begins to suspect that the world he lives in is not what it seems. About: Didn’t research this until after I wrote the review, but it appears that Andrew Henry’s Meadow is a well-known children’s book, which would make this an adaptation, not a spec script, […]

Genre: TV pilot – police procedural/fantasyPremise: In a modern day San Francisco-like city where the laws of physics are superseded by hard magic, the deputy mayor’s right hand man is murdered, leaving some to suspect he is responsible. About: Writer and show-runner Ronald D. Moore went to Cornell but failed out when he was a […]