It’s a good career move to have your script rank number one on the annual Black List, voted on by development executives (as opposed to...

I am an Apple customer (or fan, at least) going back to the early 1980s. In fourth grade (1983), the teacher had an Apple IIG in the...

I’m sure we’ve all seen or heard of Amazon’s last-minute Christmas “present”: ADS! They are coming to Prime on January 29th, unless you...

Saltburn is not quite what I expected. Part of this is deliberate. It looks like a film where the poor shy kid at boarding school is...

Twenty years ago—wow, it’s been a while—I was lucky to put together several expanded James Bond soundtrack reissues for EMI and MGM. It...

Maestro is excellent. Great lead performances, amazing makeup, great sense of period. And the music speaks for itself. I wonder how much...

Congratulations to the makers of The Crown on concluding a truly high quality and high-class show. I’m a typical American, so the British...

Nahre Sol is a pianist, composer and music educator with a lot of great videos online, both for serious musicians and casual aficionados....

I only now realized that the short-lived, live-action adaptation of Cowboy Bebop on Netflix actually had two separate Yoko Kanno albums...

Paul Jenkins is one of the ex-directors of a Star Trek fan film that went off the deep end. I don’t even want to tell the story. Just...

My compliments to the International Film Music Archives on an eclectic collection of unreleased film music on YouTube. There’s a bunch of...

Reading Deadline this morning, I saw this news item about somebody who published fan fiction of Lord of the Rings and then tried to sue...

This is probably a shot in the dark but we are trying to find a La-La Land Records Krull CD from the recent big CD sale that might have...

Some months ago I watched a YouTube video about a famous hip-hop sample and made a note of it in my list of blog column ideas. Now I am...

I was so excited to get Intrada’s new expanded version of James Horner’s Battle Beyond the Stars, and it did not disappoint. This goes...

Last night was the La-La Land Records holiday dinner at the Smoke House restaurant in Burbank, the first one in four years. Many thanks...

Is it really about to be 2024? I’ll be fifty next year. Movies that I feel like just came out are now 25 years old. My kids see a...

Many thanks to Julian Baxter’s YouTube channel which has posted a bunch of piano reductions of the Return of the Jedi score, including a...

The CD sale is done, so this week we’ll be following up on the inevitable handful of problems: mis-sent packages, wrong orders, customs...

It’s the one time of the year where there are big, expensive films for grown-ups—yay! I was excited to see Leave the World Behind because...

With our CD sale done, I can catch up on some movies and TV I’ve watched. The Killer was a must-watch for me because of David Fincher. Is...

Congratulations to Jose Benitez and his team at Quartet Records for a truly outstanding batch of Xmas 2023 releases: Seance on a Wet...

We’re getting the final batch of orders shipped today from our big CD sale. Back tomorrow!

That’s a wrap on our big CD sale! We have to get everything shipped by the end of the week as we are losing our warehouse space, but it...