I was surprised and impressed by the outpouring of grief on the loss of Paul Reubens, the creator and performer of the beloved Pee-wee...

Does it get any better than the desert chase in Raiders of the Lost Ark? Survey says, no! It’s a masterpiece in action directing and...

Platina Jazz is a Swedish cover band of Japanese anime music. Really! And quite imaginative in their reinterpretations of classic...

I guess Indiana Jones is old news now? Tough business! I’ve always loved The Last Crusade, easily my second-favorite (after Raiders) of...

Our kids watched the Back to the Future trilogy over the summer, giving me a chance to revisit the films. They’re wonderful, of course....

My friend Neil Bulk sent me a link to welcome news: the James Horner archive is going to his alma mater of UCLA. I spent a lot of time at...

William Friedkin has died at the age of 87. Variety’s obituary is here. His films The French Connection and The Exorcist are among the...

I rewatched one of my favorite movies: Bullitt. It was on HBO Max (sorry, just Max now) and I couldn’t resist. Peter Yates also directed...

The corporate philosophy behind making Star Trek has changed drastically only once in its 57-year history, and that was around 2007 (I...

There was a brief flash of hope that the writers strike might soon be resolved—followed by the predictable yet disappointing update (see...

This weekend is the big annual Star Trek convention in Las Vegas. It’s run by Creation and presently branded “The 57-Year Mission” to get...

I don’t subscribe to AppleTV—we spend enough money on these services already! But they make some episodes available for free, so I...

I don’t have much to add to the outpouring of grief and memories at the loss of the one and only Paul Reubens, Pee-Wee Herman. But I will...

My kids (they just turned nine, twins) needed something to watch so I showed them Mystery Science Theater 3000, the new episodes on...

I’ve been aware of Elon Musk’s purchase and destruction of Twitter as it’s been going on the past few years. I didn’t follow it with...

Rolling Stone is out with a terrific new oral history on the making of The Fugitive, which was released almost thirty years ago (on...

I was sorry to learn of the passing of my Amherst College music professor, Lewis Spratlan, who was a great composition teacher as well as...

I came across an article in UnHerd (which I had never Herd of) which my friend Rob Burnett put on social media. It’s an interesting look...

So much of being a Gen-X kid meant discovering classic movies on their network television airings. And a lot of them were on ABC, like...

Barbie and Oppenheimer are the big movie news at the moment, having opened to record numbers. And both are originals! Although, of...

Anthony Marinelli would be known to soundtrack collectors for Young Guns, The Man From Elysian Fields and his long filmography as a...

We’re off on a summer vacation this week! And because I still can’t figure out how to schedule blog columns on Wix in advance, this will...

You’ve probably heard there are two labor strikes in the film industry right now, the WGA (writers) and SAG-AFTRA (actors). This has not...

Above: Joe Sikoryak, me, Ed Dennis and “the Godfather,” Craig Spaulding of Screen Archives, probably 15 years ago. I woke up this morning...