Yesterday in our neighborhood I saw a tree-trimming truck with a worker up in the “cherry picker.” This reminded me of the orange...

I see that Milly Alcock has been cast as the new Supergirl. I’m glad, I thought she was really good in the Game of Thrones prequel, The...

My heart breaks for the fans of the Detroit Lions, who coughed up a devastating loss in one of two exciting football games yesterday....

The YouTube channel Dominic Sewell Music posted Dominic’s latest Star Wars score reduction, of the “Death of Alderaan.” The passage I’ve...

Our family loves to watch The Great British Baking Show. We’re now catching up on the first two years of the show (2010–11), before it...

When I was publishing Film Score Monthly, I used to get a fair number of emails (and before that, hardcopy letters) from aspiring...

Check out this list and see if you can tell what it’s for: The Sugarland Express YES Jaws YES Close Encounters of the Third Kind YES 1941...

I did not know that composer Bear McCreary’s mom is an author. I read a remembrance she wrote of one of Bear and his brother Brendan’s...

I didn’t even know the Oscar nominations were being announced today. I am so out of touch. Here’s the list.

British composer and arranger Laurie Johnson has died at the age of 96. I was of the wrong age, and on the wrong continent, to watch The...

There is a disturbing news story about the Tampa Bay Rays’ 22-year-old superstar shortstop, Wander Franco (a potential hall of famer),...

So I realized I hadn’t given an update on my projects in a while. I actually have a ton I am trying to do...but nothing I can announce....

The only time I watch network television is for sports. I see ads for the latest “dramas”—which play over and over to promote upcoming...

Farewell to the great Peter Schickele and his alter ego, P.D.Q. Bach. He actually made classical music funny: Bravo to a true original.

I’ve written of my fondness for fan-made blueprints of Star Trek ships (and other sci-fi vehicles). I also enjoy baseball park...

Dominic Sewell on YouTube is around halfway through a detailed reduction of John Williams’ Star Wars (1977) score, going through each and...

I am really enjoying For All Mankind. But it is reminding me of something that always nags at me when I watch movies or TV shows set on...

Here’s one for my hometown peeps. With the new year came time to put the 2024 calendar on my office wall—the Vineyard Calendar, of...

This is sort of cool: a die-hard fan of David Lynch’s Dune uncovered a half-completed script to a possible Dune II that Lynch would have...

There has been an unfortunate deluge of spam hitting the FSM board for a couple of weeks. Have I mentioned how much I hate these jerks?...