On Friday I announced the next stage of my professional life, turning Film Score Monthly into a film and TV company—FSM Studios. This is,...

I’ve been happy to publish this blog, which I started in August 2021 and have continued ever since with daily updates (except for a few...

Good morning, world! As we head into this holiday weekend (Memorial Day in the U.S.) I am announcing the “soft launch” of what will...

Despite overwhelming apathy, Charlie Vignola and I are continuing to record our weekly screenwriting “power hour” (neither an hour, nor...

The all-time classic Next Generation episode “Q Who” rolled around again in the nightly airing of vintage Trek shows on the Heroes &...

Above: a random page from Blade Runner 2049. You should read it! I just posted this random rant to reddit/screenwriting and a Facebook...

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

Here’s the new episode of my screenwriting “power hour” (neither an honor, nor full of power) with my pal Charlie Vignola. We’re really...

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...

That was fun yesterday—in case you missed it, I randomly blew off steam about an old pet peeve of mine, which is when we’d release a cool...

First off, I know that most of the people who read this blog are from the film score world, not the aspiring-screenwriting world—and...

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

Episode 5 of my YouTube screenwriting show with Charlie Vignola is up, and we talk about the ways to make a good script great. This was a...

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 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,...

All right, so nobody wants to hear two people they’ve never heard of talk about writing screenplays. But give us a shot? Today we talk...

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...

My friend Charlie Vignola and I recorded a third episode of our “show.” We know that very few people are watching these—and of course,...

Live on tape on YouTube—my friend Charlie Vignola and I are back to talk about screenwriting. This week we look at some loglines tweeted...

My wife and I loved this crazy movie! As far as we’re concerned, it’s the first worthy successor to Idiocracy—skewering our dumb culture,...