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

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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...

I saw the above tweet on a Facebook group about screenwriting. It led to a pile-on of comments about how dumb executives are, horror...

The following (screen cap above) was asked of me on the thread I used on the FSM message board to post links to columns that I think...

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...

Christopher Nolan gave an interesting interview to Stephen Colbert. Here’s the pertinent part about film music: I also just saw a new...

As I wrote earlier this week, announcing an upcoming CD estate sale, I never thought I’d be in the used CD business. But having done it a...

There is a new interview with John Williams at symphony.org, by Simon Woods, which is quite good. Williams tends to be so diplomatic in...

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...

I didn’t expect to any further CD sales. But right before New Year’s Eve, I was contacted by a longtime FSM subscriber and collector who...

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...

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...

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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...

Yesterday in our neighborhood I saw a tree-trimming truck with a worker up in the “cherry picker.” This reminded me of the orange...

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...

My heart breaks for the fans of the Detroit Lions, who coughed up a devastating loss in one of two exciting football games yesterday....

The YouTube channel Dominic Sewell Music posted Dominic’s latest Star Wars score reduction, of the “Death of Alderaan.” The passage I’ve...

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...

When I was publishing Film Score Monthly, I used to get a fair number of emails (and before that, hardcopy letters) from aspiring...

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...

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...

I didn’t even know the Oscar nominations were being announced today. I am so out of touch. Here’s the list.