Congrats to Hans Zimmer for his Oscar win for Best Score for Dune. I thought it was clearly the best score of 2021, and the obvious...

Jack Sheldon (1931–2019) had a hell of a life. He was an all-time great jazz trumpet player and first-call session musician. (Buy the...

Marc Silvestri is a very successful comic book artist and creator. He is one of the founders, and the current CEO, of Image Comics. And...

Lyndon “Lyn” Williams, chairman of the Goldsmith Society, sent this wonderful album of composer photos which I’ve posted at Facebook...

I noticed some folks on our message board discussing the 2003 Thunderball CD (with the expanded track list, which I put together for EMI)...

Above is a pic of Gordon Parks, who directed Shaft and Shaft’s Big Score! but had a rich and consequential life well beyond that. When we...

Here’s a pretty amazing find: a 30-minute behind-the-scenes look at the making of the 1972 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, with a...

Film Score Monthly has endured as long as it has basically because of luck and the kindness of strangers: specifically, the luck I had in...

Wow! A blast from the past. Part 1: Part 2: Part 3 (looks like Jon Kaplan is being swallowed up by the sun): This was so much fun to...

I was, like most, shocked and saddened to learn of the death of William Hurt. He was a great actor and a unique leading man with his...

I’m doing a major reorganization of decades’ worth of files on my home computer drive. I’ll post some of the interesting things I’ve...

Here is a lovely video by filmmaker Paul Goldsmith of Sara and Emily Horner discussing James Horner in his studio, which is practically...

This is pretty cool: a YouTube channel from Pike Bishop has posted a meticulously created set of re-recordings (done by virtual...

If you like dazzling cinematography, gratuitous softcore nudity, and the sex and drug experiences of 24-year-old teenagers treated like...

Whoa, this is a good movie. Beautiful images, astounding performances. Not at all surprising, considering the credentials of everybody...

Sometimes I am asked, or even wonder myself, if there are any film scores still unreleased I really want to have. And the answer is...not...

The Internet is full of lies and toxic sludge...but sometimes you stumble upon art of tremendous beauty, too. This is “Piano Folio...to a...

Vanity Fair has published a fantastic piece by Mark Rozzo about the prevalence of ghostwriters for Hollywood film and television...

Interesting question! I have not been watching the show, so I have no opinion. The full themes: Ronja Rövardotter: Boba Fett: I guess...

Writing about John Williams’ 90th birthday, and then the current (boxed) state of my soundtrack collection, reminded me of my earliest...