Matthew Klekner Reviews: All You Need is Kill
Premise: Mysterious creatures called ‘Mimics’ have laid siege to Earth. The storyline puts a Groundhog Day plot device into a futuristic alien invasion storyline as a young inexperienced private gets [...]
jkap Reviews: I.C.U.
Logline: A Doctor finds herself taken hostage in a hospital and forced to follow orders of a murderous group out for revenge. Christmas in Chicago. JACK PEARCE walks his German [...]
jkap Reviews: Oil Cowboys
Logline: Four Americans steal a cargo ship holding 180 tons of oil which they hope to sell for $100 million bucks. We open in Al-Basrah, Iraq. Ten MASKED GUNMEN lead [...]
Matthew Klekner Reviews: Safe House
Premise: The action-espionage-thriller tells the story of a YOUNG CIA agent who becomes the only survivor after a CIA safe house attack, and must help a dangerous prisoner avoid being [...]
Matthew Klekner Reviews: Win Win
Premise: A rough-and-tumble runaway changes the lives of a suburban New Jersey family and turns around the luck of a high school wrestling team. About: McCarthy is that rare working [...]
jkap Reviews: Minimum Wage
LOGLINE: A Corporate Exec, known for firing workers, is convicted of fraud and sentenced to spend a year working for minimum wage. JIM SEAVER, 30′s. Corporate finance director of OMNICORP. [...]
jkap Reviews: The Hand Job
Logline: Coming of age tale of Brandy Clark, a 16-year old girl living in Boise, Idaho, determined to experience everything about sex before her 17th birthday. For my money, this [...]
Robert Grant Reviews: Fashion Beast
Logline: A young woman is plucked from obscurity to become the muse of the worlds greatest fashion designer. The world is at war and staring down the barrel of a [...]
jkap Reviews: The Thirteenth Hour
Nick Quinn travels back in time in one-hour increments to stop his wife’s murder but finds his actions have disastrous consequences. I don’t know about you but lately it seems [...]
jkap Reviews: Year 12
Logline: Aliens have taken over Earth. This is year 12 of the occupation. OPENING – we meet TYLER KIRKLAND, 35. Wakes up next to KRISTEN. They don’t know each other’s [...]
CM Houghton Reviews: Comic Con
Logline: To save their beloved neighborhood comic shop, a justice league of comic geeks must plan and execute a daring heist at Comic-Con. Background: The script’s writers met while both [...]
jkap Reviews: The Vatican Tapes
For two thousand years, the Catholic Church has investigated cases of alleged demonic possession, taping their findings. These tapes are housed in the Vatican. Now, we get to a glimpse [...]
jkap Reviews: The Gunslinger
Logline: A Texas Ranger hunts down the killer who murdered his brother. OPENING – We’re in a crime scene. A Texas Ranger named DANIEL HENSLEY is found murdered/tortured in a [...]
jkap Reviews: Legion
I decided to read “LEGION” based on the trailer because in my humble opinion, the trailer simply…..KICKED ASS! C’mon, it’s hardcore. The evil granny! The angel sent to save us! [...]
Kevin Jackson Reviews: The Girl with the Red Riding Hood
The Girl with the Red Riding Hood by David Leslie Johnson (a 120 page revised first draft) is a horror and romance Gothic reimagining of the classic fairy tale in [...]
Kevin Jackson Reviews: The Vatican Tapes
The Vatican Tapes (79 pages) by Christopher Borrelli is a horror about a documented account of an exorcism. A priest flies into a rural American town to do an exorcism. [...]
CM Houghton Reviews: A Walk Among the Tombstones
Short Summary: Based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Lawrence Block, unlicensed private detective Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug dealer, Kenny Kristo, to find the [...]
Thomas Lawler Reviews: Underage
LOGLINE: A 20-something ladies man has a drunken one-night stand with a girl who turns out to be an underage high school student and is blackmailed into being her boyfriend. [...]
Kevin Jackson Reviews: Wedding Banned
Wedding Banned, 115 pages, is written by Jack Amiel & Michael Begler. It’s a comedy about a long since divorced couple kidnapping their daughter on her wedding day to keep [...]
Kevin Jackson Reviews: Poltergeist
I invite you to read my first screenplay review for MyPDFScripts of Poltergeist, a 102 page, first draft, by Juliet Snowden & Stiles White. It is a fantasy/horror about a [...]
jkap Reviews: Poltergeist
LOGLINE – A family experiences ghostly attacks in their new home. To me, the rule of thumb regarding remakes is: If you can’t improve upon the original, leave it alone. [...]
Mike Breiburg Reviews: Hack/Slash
Almost two weeks ago, I read a brief review of the HACK/SLASH script over at Shock Till You Drop’s Twitterfeed: @STYDNews: Read the HACK/SLASH screenplay. True to the spirit of [...]
Robert Grant Reviews: Akira Part One
Logline: In a post-apocalyptic city members of a bike gang get involved in a battle between the mysterious psychic forces that are connected to the initial destruction of the city, [...]
jkap Reviews: Last Stand
Earlier this week, I went home excited to read a hot property that was about to blow up overnight, especially with everyone gushing over the premise. And once again, I [...]
jkap Reviews: Fuckbuddies
Logline: A guy and a girl struggle to have an exclusively sexual relationship as they both come to realize they want much more. Story’s about EMMA FRANKLIN and ADAM KURTZMAN. [...]
jkap Reviews: Kristy
Logline: A female college sophomore finds herself trapped on a deserted campus as four mask-wearing strangers try to kill her. OPENING – We’re on a small college campus. A security [...]
Vern Reviews: Hot Tub Time Machine
The T.A.R.D.I.S. The Omni. The Quantum Accelerator. A Flux-Capacitor enhanced DeLorean. A Phone Booth. The Time Tunnel. The Hot Tub. The Hot Tub? You read that right, Hot Tub. Revolves [...]
Wizdoc Reviews: The Expendables
In short – it’s a mess. Sylvester Stallone’s follow up to the mean and lean actioner Rambo tries to be many things at once. A buddy movie, a political thriller [...]
Sheridan Reviews: Ghost Rider by David S. Goyer
Days before the original version of pdfscreenplays imploded, I traversed to my mailbox to find a large envelope with no return address. Intrigued, I opened it, hoping its contents didn’t [...]
PitchPatch Reviews: Kane & Lynch
Kyle Ward. Strap on your kevlar. Because I’m gunning for you, motherfrakker. Kane & Lynch was a fun, frantic, flawed game. I played it to completion (both endings). It was [...]
