Like most fans of my generation, I knew Wil Wheaton as the terrific star of Stand by Me, and was encouraged when he was announced in 1987...

I was posting my column yesterday about an old Star Trek episode when I saw that Vangelis died. Truly, this is a far more consequential...

Yesterday I posted an album of John Williams pictures to Facebook that we collected over the years. It was, naturally, well-received, and...

That lunar eclipse was pretty cool. I remember a solar eclipse, I think in 1996 (I was at college) which brought a veil of darkness onto...

Gloria Bell is a 2018 film by Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Lelio, an American adaptation of his 2013 film, Gloria. I never even knew this...

Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there! Having nothing to do with that, Tim Greiving, journalist extraordinaire, posted this film...

The pandemic wreaked havoc with a lot of production schedules—consequently a number of shows are finally coming back with long-awaited...

When did May 4th become the Star Wars holiday? It’s not even the release date—that was May 25, 1977. I looked it up, and it somehow has...

I am loving Winning Time! And I say that as a lifelong Boston sports fan. The title sequence is terrific: I had been unsure whether the...

A shout-out today to one of my favorite short films of all time: Live at the Necropolis: The Lords of Synth (2016), which aired on Adult...

So this whole column is a nothingburger: turns out I was remembering something wrong! The name of R2-D2 famously came from postproduction...

One of my all-time favorite shows is Mad Men. That’s not exactly an outlier opinion. So I was delighted to learn that composer David...

Happy Easter (and Passover, to my people). Sorry, I don’t have anything holiday related. I came across the above video about Cowboy...

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...

Billions wrapped up its sixth season Sunday night. I guess there will be at least one more? I have enjoyed this show way more than I...

I asked people to visit my IMDB page to goose my stupid “star” rating—and it worked! Thanks! I’m up to #82,623 or so this—fun! Hey, it’s...

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,...

Here’s a piece of history for you: the first page of the famous Knight Rider theme by Stu Phillips and Glen A. Larson (but really, the...

Violet is an indie I’ve heard about for some time, as my old friend Larry Hummel was one of the producers. Larry is a talent manager who...

One of the benefits of producing the FSM CD catalog was that I got a hell of an education in weird and obscure movies from the past. I...