I’ve posted a fun collection of John Williams photos to Facebook. We collected these over the years for Film Score Monthly, and many...

That lunar eclipse was pretty cool. I remember a solar eclipse, I think in 1996 (I was at college) which brought a veil of darkness onto...

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a blog post about some composer interview videos I found on a YouTube channel called ThemeWorks. My old...

Above: James Horner’s cameo in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Wow, we finally got to hear “Spectral Shimmers”! This was an early James...

NEWS FLASH: Selected FSM CDs are 20% off at Screen Archives, May 12–17. Go here for the details. I’ve had some interesting journeys in...

I have posted an album to Facebook of our collection of Jerry Goldsmith photos. Above is a super-rare shot from 1968 we found in the...

Gloria Bell is a 2018 film by Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Lelio, an American adaptation of his 2013 film, Gloria. I never even knew this...

Is it fun owning one of the most popular discussion boards for film music? Well...sometimes? I’ve always been glad to host a place to...

On a couple of occasions the past several weeks I’ve felt obligated to weigh in (once on the FSM message board, once on Facebook) on...

Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there! Having nothing to do with that, Tim Greiving, journalist extraordinaire, posted this film...

Above: a random page from Blade Runner 2049. You should read it! I just posted this random rant to reddit/screenwriting and a Facebook...

The pandemic wreaked havoc with a lot of production schedules—consequently a number of shows are finally coming back with long-awaited...

I am too young to have experienced the 1960s—but I sure like the aesthetics! Hotel (1967), based on a 1965 Arthur Hailey novel, was a...

When did May 4th become the Star Wars holiday? It’s not even the release date—that was May 25, 1977. I looked it up, and it somehow has...

I am loving Winning Time! And I say that as a lifelong Boston sports fan. The title sequence is terrific: I had been unsure whether the...

Many thanks to the team at CenterFrame who had me on the premiere YouTube episode of their “Make It Short” series, talking about Sky...

A shout-out today to one of my favorite short films of all time: Live at the Necropolis: The Lords of Synth (2016), which aired on Adult...

Here’s the new episode of my screenwriting “power hour” (neither an honor, nor full of power) with my pal Charlie Vignola. We’re really...

The other day I had a little melodic fragment stuck in my head—but I couldn’t remember what it was from. This seems to be happening to me...

Let me tell you about the time that a friend and I accidentally/simultaneously wrote Free Guy. And you can read it, if you want! You may...

Okay folks, today’s “a good one”! Another one of my encounters with the greats (a la the John Williams story) that’s full of...

I loooooooove Jerry Fielding. I was first exposed to him via his two Star Trek scores, “The Trouble With Tribbles” and “Spectre of the...

So this whole column is a nothingburger: turns out I was remembering something wrong! The name of R2-D2 famously came from postproduction...

I used to tape weird stuff off of TV. I have a couple of boxes of VHS tapes in a closet here, and several more in my mom’s basement....