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The Persuaders With Lyrics
There sure is some weird stuff on the Internet. Today’s example, which I discovered via somebody on Facebook: this excerpt from a French...
Lukas Kendall
May 17, 20231 min read


Goldsmith Biography Kickstarter Live
Congrats to my pal and longtime FSM contributor Jeff Bond on a super-strong opening to Creature Features Publishing’s Kickstarter for his...
Lukas Kendall
May 16, 20231 min read


Goldsmith Book Kickstarter Tomorrow
If you haven’t seen already, the long-awaited, two-volume Jerry Goldsmith biography by Jeff Bond will launch as a Kickstarter tomorrow,...
Lukas Kendall
May 15, 20231 min read


Happy Mother’s Day
Happy Mother’s Day to my mom! And also to my wife, who does such an amazing job with our kids. Both of them can tell you... I’m not easy!
Lukas Kendall
May 14, 20231 min read


Kinoline
What is Kinolime? The latest startup promising to promote or produce your screenplay. I saw their promotion and thought, hey, that might...
Lukas Kendall
May 13, 20231 min read


Walking the WGA Picket Line
I joined my first WGA picket line yesterday afternoon, outside Paramount. I am not a full member, but was an Associate Member for a few...
Lukas Kendall
May 12, 20232 min read


Enterprise-D Bridge Set Return
I’m sure all the Trekkies have seen this by now, but here’s a featurette on bringing back the Enterprise D bridge set for Star Trek:...
Lukas Kendall
May 11, 20231 min read


More on The Ghost Writer
I wrote yesterday about how much I enjoy the 2010 Polanski thriller, The Ghost Writer. Sebastian Stoppe contacted me to share a video he...
Lukas Kendall
May 10, 20231 min read


In Praise of The Ghost Writer
I wrote recently how there are few movies of the past 25 years that I really love. I still think of Lost in Translation as my favorite...
Lukas Kendall
May 9, 20232 min read


Marvel’s Power Pack
I’ve written before how I was an avid Marvel Comics reader circa the mid to late 1980s. Mostly I was into the “X books” (X-Men, X-Factor,...
Lukas Kendall
May 8, 20233 min read


765874 College Course on Understanding Star Trek
Many thanks to Twitter user Stephen Duignan for a deep-cut, deep-dive into explaining those short films to promote the Roddenberry...
Lukas Kendall
May 7, 20231 min read


Paramount’s John Pike During Star Trek: The Next Generation
I was watching the very entertaining Chaos on the Bridge documentary, about the early years of Star Trek: The Next Generation. This stuff...
Lukas Kendall
May 6, 20231 min read


The Writers’ New Hero—and A.I. Screenwriting Is Totally Overrated
The striking writers have a new hero and she is Lindsay Dougherty, the secretary-treasurer and chief negotiator of the local Teamsters....
Lukas Kendall
May 5, 20231 min read


To Hyperspace on May the Fourth
Somehow May 4th became Star Wars day—“May the Fourth be With You.” It’s not even a release date of any of the movies. But oh well. Even...
Lukas Kendall
May 4, 20232 min read


The Consultant
I watched The Consultant on Amazon Prime. The reviews were lukewarm, and now I know why. Years ago there was a Beavis and Butt-Head...
Lukas Kendall
May 3, 20231 min read


WGA Strike
Well, the WGA strike is on. That was predictable. Thinking of unions and how important they are: Listen to one of the all-time great...
Lukas Kendall
May 2, 20231 min read


WGA Strike Imminent
If you follow entertainment news at all, you know a writers strike is quite possible (and even likely) after the WGA contract expires at...
Lukas Kendall
May 1, 20231 min read


Roddenberry Archive
Trekkies: You gotta check out the newly launched Roddenberry Archive. I’m still figuring out the controls, but there are these tour-able...
Lukas Kendall
Apr 30, 20231 min read


Superman Helicopter Rescue
Holy moly. Check out this new YouTube analysis by Patrick Suiter on the “Helicopter Rescue” from John Williams’ score to Superman: The...
Lukas Kendall
Apr 29, 20231 min read


Support PanCan
I am raising money to fight pancreatic cancer in the name of my stepfather, Herb Putnam. The charity is PanCan and they are fantastic....
Lukas Kendall
Apr 28, 20231 min read


Watching Titanic With Our Kids
I wrote about Titanic a week or two ago, because I watched it with our twin girls (they’re almost nine). They have friends who are...
Lukas Kendall
Apr 27, 20233 min read


Star Trek Music Analysis Videos by David Page
Now this is my kind of YouTube channel! Musician David Page has created a series of deep-dive videos about the classic Star Trek...
Lukas Kendall
Apr 26, 20231 min read


Farewell Warner Bros. Ranch
Aw, man...this is painful. The famous Warner Bros. Ranch, with its iconic Midwest street, is slated to be torn down this summer, to make...
Lukas Kendall
Apr 25, 20231 min read


Peter Knight, the Great British Orchestrator-Arranger
I generally find that fans make too much of an orchestrator’s contribution to a film score. The really great, A-list composers either...
Lukas Kendall
Apr 24, 20232 min read
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