Yesterday I announced that I am raising money to start a film company. I realize that is a lot to ask of the universe! I don’t like...

Good morning, world! As we head into this holiday weekend (Memorial Day in the U.S.) I am announcing the “soft launch” of what will...

Like most fans of my generation, I knew Wil Wheaton as the terrific star of Stand by Me, and was encouraged when he was announced in 1987...

I try not to write about politics here. Not because I’m not interested; I follow it pretty closely. But I learned a long time ago, in...

I used to spend way too much time hanging out at (screenwriter) Shane Black’s house (roughly 1997–2003, for me). Shane had the greatest...

Over the weekend, Jo Ann Kane Music Service put up a Facebook post celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back (released...

Despite overwhelming apathy, Charlie Vignola and I are continuing to record our weekly screenwriting “power hour” (neither an hour, nor...

I have a soft spot for this late-second season Star Trek: The Next Generation episode. It was the first time I really started to take...

I was posting my column yesterday about an old Star Trek episode when I saw that Vangelis died. Truly, this is a far more consequential...

The all-time classic Next Generation episode “Q Who” rolled around again in the nightly airing of vintage Trek shows on the Heroes &...

Yesterday I posted an album of John Williams pictures to Facebook that we collected over the years. It was, naturally, well-received, and...

I’ve posted a fun collection of John Williams photos to Facebook. We collected these over the years for Film Score Monthly, and many...

That lunar eclipse was pretty cool. I remember a solar eclipse, I think in 1996 (I was at college) which brought a veil of darkness onto...

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a blog post about some composer interview videos I found on a YouTube channel called ThemeWorks. My old...

Above: James Horner’s cameo in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Wow, we finally got to hear “Spectral Shimmers”! This was an early James...

NEWS FLASH: Selected FSM CDs are 20% off at Screen Archives, May 12–17. Go here for the details. I’ve had some interesting journeys in...

I have posted an album to Facebook of our collection of Jerry Goldsmith photos. Above is a super-rare shot from 1968 we found in the...

Gloria Bell is a 2018 film by Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Lelio, an American adaptation of his 2013 film, Gloria. I never even knew this...

Is it fun owning one of the most popular discussion boards for film music? Well...sometimes? I’ve always been glad to host a place to...

On a couple of occasions the past several weeks I’ve felt obligated to weigh in (once on the FSM message board, once on Facebook) on...

Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there! Having nothing to do with that, Tim Greiving, journalist extraordinaire, posted this film...

Above: a random page from Blade Runner 2049. You should read it! I just posted this random rant to reddit/screenwriting and a Facebook...

The pandemic wreaked havoc with a lot of production schedules—consequently a number of shows are finally coming back with long-awaited...

I am too young to have experienced the 1960s—but I sure like the aesthetics! Hotel (1967), based on a 1965 Arthur Hailey novel, was a...