I don’t know how I missed Tokyo Vice when it premiered in the spring—but I watched the eight-episode first season this past week and...

I was sorry to hear of the passing of Nikki Finke, the founder of Deadline.com (originally Deadline Hollywood). I was a fan as far back...

Videos from the big James Bond concert in London have popped up on YouTube. Here’s a playlist. And Variety’s review. Shirley Bassey...

I don’t have a plan for this blog so sometimes I don’t know what to write—and the answer is always the same: nostalgia! I loved Legos as...

I enjoyed the new documentary on James Bond songs and scores, The Sound of 007. See it now on Amazon. It’s a fun overview of the history...

I love this new concert work by the Maestro, which I discovered on the FSM message board. (See, the board isn’t all bad.) Details here....

Check out this half-hour piano medley of Ennio Morricone themes from the YouTube channel of Roger Strauss (he has several dozen other...

I recently rewatched Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. Why? I don’t know. Mostly nostalgia. And curiosity for what I would think of it...

Yesterday I dug up and posted a 1997 essay I wrote about the future of film music. It was inspired by my reaction to the Fifth Element...

Recently, a podcast about Hollywood film-scoring ghostwriters reminded me how new scores don’t sell to collectors. It made me think about...

Yesterday I mentioned a podcast about Hollywood insiders that did half an episode about composers and their armies of...