I watched Glass Onion and enjoyed it—what a great cast!—but I did notice that it’s quite unconventional as a “whodunit.” A huge part of...

Some readers might know—because I’ve talked about it enough—I want to make an indie film on Martha’s Vineyard. So I was interested to see...

Happy New Year! My goal this year is simple: I want to make movies! Also television, but that’s harder (you need a “showrunner” and they...

Top Gun: Maverick has landed on Paramount+ (where it’s predictably a big hit), so having heard how great it is the past six months, I...

Empire has published an interview with James Cameron—maybe you’ve heard, his Avatar sequel is now in theaters—but with a twist: the...

It’s the end of the year, so it’s the time for the retrospectives on the state of the film business—such as it is. Here’s a good one from...

I watched Confess, Fletch on Showtime last night. Like the rest of the world, I missed it upon release earlier this year. It was very...

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,...