Many thanks to David Schwartz for posting another one of his priceless composer interviews from his vaults, this time a 1976 conversation...

Mark your calendars for Tuesday, September 19, at 10AM Pacific time for a huge CD sale from the estate of one of our most passionate...

Many thanks to my friend and colleague Neil Bulk for pointing out a rare 1982 radio interview with James Horner that was posted by the...

I learned from the FSM board that Meco (Domenico Monardo) died in May, at 83, but his death went little noticed. He practically invented...

I am typing thousands of CD listings...no time to write anything meaningful today! Here is, courtesy Chris Siddall Music, the Epilogue to...

I am in the midst of a huge data entry project for an upcoming CD sale. After selling around half of my own collection earlier this year,...

I watched Gorky Park, for no reason other than it was on and I wanted to see it again. I remembered enjoying it, and wanting to hear the...

Many thanks to Matthew Kaplowitz of Trek Untold who had me on his podcast. You can watch the video version at YouTube: I want to make...

Our friends at the Hollywood Bowl reached out with a discount offer for the upcoming live-to-film performance of Return of the Jedi, with...

All right, so my blog is starting to look like clickbait listicles—sorry. I found this entertaining video with one bass player’s...

I had the pleasure of being a guest on the Goldsmith Odyssey podcast alongside Jonathan Frakes—who has not only played Commander Riker on...

I was channel surfing yesterday and watched the end of the original 1987 Predator. I haven’t seen it in years but I’ve always been a big...

Indiewire has published a list of their (well, two writers’) best scores of the 1980s. Check it out—but be warned, it’s approaching film...

I like to play the New York Times spelling bee game. Recently, we took a family vacation, and I worried that it would be too cumbersome...

Does it get any better than the desert chase in Raiders of the Lost Ark? Survey says, no! It’s a masterpiece in action directing and...

Our kids watched the Back to the Future trilogy over the summer, giving me a chance to revisit the films. They’re wonderful, of course....

My friend Neil Bulk sent me a link to welcome news: the James Horner archive is going to his alma mater of UCLA. I spent a lot of time at...

I rewatched one of my favorite movies: Bullitt. It was on HBO Max (sorry, just Max now) and I couldn’t resist. Peter Yates also directed...

The corporate philosophy behind making Star Trek has changed drastically only once in its 57-year history, and that was around 2007 (I...

I don’t subscribe to AppleTV—we spend enough money on these services already! But they make some episodes available for free, so I...