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Dune 2
CD sale update: Here is a spreadsheet of the remaining 2,100 or so titles in inventory, for people who find the spreadsheet easily to...
Lukas Kendall
Mar 9, 20242 min read


Holy Cow! Spidey Friends!
I had one of the happiest shocks of my soundtrack-fan life yesterday morning to see on Facebook an announcement from Dulcima Records...
Lukas Kendall
Feb 25, 20242 min read


The One Thing I Want From Podcasts
There are so many good podcasts now. I know a lot of people listen to them while driving or walking. I don’t do a lot of either, so it’s...
Lukas Kendall
Feb 24, 20241 min read


Mission: Impossible Themes
I am halfway through watching Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning, Part I. I try not to break up watching movies, especially good ones...
Lukas Kendall
Feb 22, 20241 min read


CNBC Is Terrible
I never watch CNBC. The only clips I ever see are on the John Oliver Show, where he shows fragments of the hosts being idiotic. It sure...
Lukas Kendall
Feb 20, 20241 min read


Roddenberry Archive Returns
The Roddenberry Archive has returned with updated and expanded virtual tours of all your favorite Star Trek spaceships. It’s even better...
Lukas Kendall
Feb 19, 20241 min read


What Is Madame Web?
No, I’m not actually asking. I gather that Madame Web is a Spider-Man-universe character who is now the star of a movie from Sony. This...
Lukas Kendall
Feb 18, 20241 min read


Sora
Those A.I. images were pretty cool—now there are A.I. movies. OpenAI just announced their video generation software, Sora. My first...
Lukas Kendall
Feb 16, 20241 min read


Oppenheimer
I finally watched Oppenheimer—on my phone. No, I am kidding. On a decent-sized TV, at least. It’s magnificent, of course. Masterful...
Lukas Kendall
Feb 15, 20241 min read


Coyote vs. Warner Bros
Years ago Sean Connery was on The Tonight Show and Johnny Carson was reading a list of questions about James Bond trivia. He asked Sean...
Lukas Kendall
Feb 13, 20241 min read


Pirates of the Caribbean Theme
I have never seen a Pirates of the Caribbean movie. I started to watch the first one on streaming some years ago, but it glitched out in...
Lukas Kendall
Feb 10, 20242 min read


Thumbs Up For All Mankind
I have finished watching For All Mankind, the four available seasons—I started a month and a half ago—and really enjoyed it. It sounds...
Lukas Kendall
Feb 6, 20242 min read


What Is Argylle?
Checking Deadline this morning, I saw news that a movie I had barely heard of, Argylle (which I now know how to spell) was a box-office...
Lukas Kendall
Feb 4, 20241 min read


Farewell Carl Weathers
Very sorry to hear of the loss of Carl Weathers. He had that thing that all the greats had: you were always happy to see him. And he...
Lukas Kendall
Feb 3, 20241 min read


Brett Ratner’s Miles Davis Story
I met director Brett Ratner in the late 1990s when he hired Lalo Schifrin to score his early films, and I went to the scoring sessions. I...
Lukas Kendall
Feb 1, 20241 min read


New Supergirl
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...
Lukas Kendall
Jan 30, 20241 min read


Sportsball Loss
My heart breaks for the fans of the Detroit Lions, who coughed up a devastating loss in one of two exciting football games yesterday....
Lukas Kendall
Jan 29, 20241 min read


British Baking—Mel and Sue
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...
Lukas Kendall
Jan 27, 20242 min read


The Intersection Scene
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...
Lukas Kendall
Jan 25, 20243 min read


Author Laura Kalpakian, aka Bear McCreary’s Mom
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...
Lukas Kendall
Jan 24, 20241 min read
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