I just want to say, this is awesome! That’s all!

I watch a lot of television shows. It’s my field and I enjoy it. Lately I have noticed shows that preposterously withhold vital...

First off, thank you to everybody who sent me birthday wishes yesterday, I appreciate it! I am watching Night Sky on Amazon. I’m halfway...

Today is my birthday. Bastille Day! The way social media is nowadays, a lot of my peeps know (and have sent nice words—thanks!). What is...

I love this show! I don’t have anything intelligent to add. I just finished season three and enjoyed every sick, demented minute of it....

British composer Monty Norman has died at the age of 94. There are obituaries all over the place but I would rely on Jon Burlingame’s at...

Above: When we were selling FSM CDs from our Culver City office, before I finally got fed up and sent it all to Screen Archives, we were...

I finally saw Last Night in Soho on HBOMax. I had wanted to see it when it came out late last year, but didn’t want to risk Covid in a...

You can find anything on YouTube nowadays. I mean, frogs eating hamsters, plane crash flight logs, porn stars golfing—you don’t want to...

This is a picture of my stepdad, Herb Putnam, who we lost to pancreatic cancer in 2008. (He sort of looked like Sam Neill.) We miss him...

This week on our YouTube screenwriting show, Charlie Vignola and I interview Paul Zeidman, a writer whose cool blog (offering useful...

My wife and I have been watching Outlander. Entertaining show, Sassenach. We had to activate the captions because of the Scottish...

I cannot tell you how much my brother Tyler and I were into Robotech in the mid- to late 1980s. We were the exact right age to discover...

My earliest screenwriting efforts came at the age of 16–17 when I wrote and submitted spec scripts to Star Trek: The Next Generation. I...

This news is a few weeks old, but the HBOMax sci-fi series Raised by Wolves was canceled after two seasons. This was sad but not...

The Lukas and Charlie Screenplay Power Hour is back! And we’ve brought our friends. We’re thrilled to be joined by our pal,...

Are you folks reading Joe Sikoryak’s blog? I’m really enjoying it. The latest piece is called “I Found It at the Movies.” Just read it....

I was traveling the past few weeks, so I didn’t have a chance to write a blog post celebrating Jerry Fielding’s centennial on June 17th....

While at Grandma and Grandpa’s house last week, we watched The Lady and the Tramp with the kids. Hey, that’s a good movie! They had it on...

I was terribly saddened to hear the news that Gregory Jein had died. He was one of the greatest modelmakers of all time—with credits...

We’re back in L.A. after two weeks visiting family on Martha’s Vineyard and Evanston, Illinois. For now I am busy uploading a huge...

No, not the Chevy Chase movies. Our family is taking our first vacation in three years (!) to visit grandparents and have fun! (Vineyard...

Sad news this morning—Julee Cruise has died at the age of 65. What a wonderful, unique talent and voice. She is, of course, best known...

No, not La-La Land Records! La La Land, the movie. Or specifically, the composer of the songs and score, Justin Hurwitz, has filed a...