I watched After Yang on Showtime last night. I had come across it in channel listings and thought—like most people, I suppose—what an odd...

Here’s a recent article from BFI about the early days of digital cinema and how its promise has, or hasn’t, played out. Really good...

NOTE: I wrote this article a year ago, but for various reasons it was not published at the intended site. So I’m running it here before...

NOTE: I posted this last week in a Facebook group about screenwriting. Afterwards I invited people to post the first page from their...

A movie opened this weekend called Violent Night. Maybe you heard of it, or have even seen it. It’s basically Die Hard starring Santa...

Hello nerds! I assume we all saw the Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny trailer: Want to know my opinion? Given that this is the...

Hello, dear friends! I thought I would give an update on FSM Studios which I announced earlier this year. I started a WeFunder campaign...

I love this crazy movie. It is often on cable or pay cable and I find myself watching it mid-stream, as I did last night. If you’ve only...

All ten of the “original” Star Trek (and Next Generation) films are on HBOMax, after having disappeared from Paramount+ in recent months....

HBO has canceled Westworld. This surprised me in that the fourth season seemed pretty “final” to me; I didn’t know the creators wanted to...

Police Squad! is one of my all-time favorite shows. Genius! And The Naked Gun, of course, as far as the feature adaptations (though the...

One of the fun things that happened in producing the FSM CDs was getting to meet writer and director Nicholas Meyer, when we released CDs...

NOTE: I hope people come on out to the soundtrack swap meet this afternoon, Saturday, October 22, 2022! My grandmother always said,...

We’re back, by unpopular demand! No guest this week, just Charlie Vignola and I catching up and talking about the process of...

I don’t know how I missed Tokyo Vice when it premiered in the spring—but I watched the eight-episode first season this past week and...

I recently rewatched Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. Why? I don’t know. Mostly nostalgia. And curiosity for what I would think of it...

I’ve long been fascinated with Michael Piller, the writer/producer who came aboard a floundering Star Trek: The Next Generation in the...

I predicted I would love this show—and I do! What is the single most important thing to great writing? Truthful human behavior. And...

Quick screenwriting tip. I was on one of the Facebook screenwriting groups—there are a bunch of them. From time to time, people post...

I wrote a bit dismissively about the Game of Thrones prequel, House of the Dragon, when it premiered. Halfway through the first season—as...