Many thanks to the team at CenterFrame who had me on the premiere YouTube episode of their “Make It Short” series, talking about Sky...

Let me tell you about the time that a friend and I accidentally/simultaneously wrote Free Guy. And you can read it, if you want! You may...

Okay folks, today’s “a good one”! Another one of my encounters with the greats (a la the John Williams story) that’s full of...

Above is a computer “wallpaper” screen that Joe Sikoryak made for us circa 2008. You can find this and a few others on our website, under...

Amin Matalqa is a director whose debut feature, Captain Abu Raed (2007), was the first film produced in Jordan in 50 years, and won the...

I watched Krull on HBOMax. I hadn’t seen it in ages—and maybe never in its proper aspect ratio. It is what it is: a very expensive,...

Today, April 4, 2022, is the centennial of Elmer Bernstein’s birth and I’ve been asked by a lot of people (okay, two) if I’d be sharing...

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...

Yesterday I posted a short autobiographical video, and I appreciate that a few folks watched it and had nice words about it. Message...

Here’s a short biographical video I made in a desperate bid to promote myself. I made fun of a few things, but mostly of myself. My mom...

I want to write my least-viewed post ever—and with your help, I will! During the 2018 Winter Olympics I started watching curling and oh...

Yesterday I went on our message board and asked people if they could like a tweet of mine. I was hoping to elevate it in the hashtag that...

Hello friends, I need to stress-test a one-hour sci-fi TV pilot, PANOPLAY. Seeking any possible reader—inside the biz, outside, related...

I had fun yesterday talking about my earliest soundtrack collecting experiences in the 1980s. As with a lot of geek kids of the era—I was...

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

Feast your eyes on this messy stack of boxes under the stairs—that’s (most of) my CD collection. You can also snoop the spines of some of...

I posted this impulsive rant on reddit/screenwriting yesterday, it attracted a lot of eyeballs and comments—so that alone makes me feel...

Above: Spielberg and Lucas with R2-D2. That is not my dad. I was reminded of this story earlier this week while participating in a...

Does anybody know how to program a Wix blog so that it doens’t just scroll indefinitely for hundreds and potentially thousands of blog...

I don’t often write about politics here because it never does any good. I could do without trolls finding and attacking me, and I don’t...