I’ve been aware of Elon Musk’s purchase and destruction of Twitter as it’s been going on the past few years. I didn’t follow it with...

Rolling Stone is out with a terrific new oral history on the making of The Fugitive, which was released almost thirty years ago (on...

I was sorry to learn of the passing of my Amherst College music professor, Lewis Spratlan, who was a great composition teacher as well as...

I came across an article in UnHerd (which I had never Herd of) which my friend Rob Burnett put on social media. It’s an interesting look...

So much of being a Gen-X kid meant discovering classic movies on their network television airings. And a lot of them were on ABC, like...

Barbie and Oppenheimer are the big movie news at the moment, having opened to record numbers. And both are originals! Although, of...

Anthony Marinelli would be known to soundtrack collectors for Young Guns, The Man From Elysian Fields and his long filmography as a...

We’re off on a summer vacation this week! And because I still can’t figure out how to schedule blog columns on Wix in advance, this will...

You’ve probably heard there are two labor strikes in the film industry right now, the WGA (writers) and SAG-AFTRA (actors). This has not...

Above: Joe Sikoryak, me, Ed Dennis and “the Godfather,” Craig Spaulding of Screen Archives, probably 15 years ago. I woke up this morning...

I watched 65 on Netflix. I’ve said this probably a dozen times, but I’m very concerned about this blog becoming a bunch of time bombs...

Looks like it’s on: SAG negotiations broke down and the actors union will go on strike today, joining the writers guild, the WGA. Here’s...

A shout-out today to a British movie site and podcast, All the Right Movies. I’ve actually never listened to their podcast—who has time?...

Like most people in the entertainment business, or watching it, I woke up to articles like this one about the possible if not likely...

I’m very grateful for the unorthodox movie education I got as a result of publishing Film Score Monthly, and producing our CDs. From Star...

La-La Land Records has released Vol. 1 in a series of 2CD sets of music from Star Trek: The Original Series. I’m involved as a producer,...

I am a huge Yoko Kanno fan. I think she’s absolutely fantastic. So I was delighted to find this detailed interview with her in Forbes by...

Forty years ago, a group of people moved heaven and earth to make their own James Bond movie, starring Sean Connery (!). The only problem...

Continuing the talk about Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (here and here), see a great new interview with director James Mangold in...

I appreciate the thoughts and nice words about my notes on Indy 5 earlier this week. We all have such affection and history with Indy...