I am organizing my CD collection. Wow, this is a lot. In the meantime, here is a vintage, cleaned-up 1960s Star Trek promo from NBC: I...

I was overwhelmed by the interest and support for my announcement yesterday of selling my CD collection to finance my film projects. And...

Happy New Year! My goal this year is simple: I want to make movies! Also television, but that’s harder (you need a “showrunner” and they...

Happy new year! Wow, 2023! Last night I was reminded by various social media posts of that New Year’s Eve classic, Irwin Allen’s The...

Hard to believe 2022 is coming to a close. I was born in 1974, and our twin girls were born in 2014, so I’ve been mentally tracking their...

Top Gun: Maverick has landed on Paramount+ (where it’s predictably a big hit), so having heard how great it is the past six months, I...

Empire has published an interview with James Cameron—maybe you’ve heard, his Avatar sequel is now in theaters—but with a twist: the...

It’s the end of the year, so it’s the time for the retrospectives on the state of the film business—such as it is. Here’s a good one from...

I watched Confess, Fletch on Showtime last night. Like the rest of the world, I missed it upon release earlier this year. It was very...

YouTube user Dominic Sewell is apparently analyzing every cue in The Empire Strikes Back—after doing the entirety of The Phantom Menace....

Merry Christmas, everyone! Hope you have a great day. It’s also the first time that I can remember when the last night of Hanukkah has...

The cable channel Heroes & Icons—aka “every old show from the CBS library, around the clock”—has rolled around to the top of Star Trek:...

Charles Cornell is a YouTuber who does music education videos involving a lot of pop and geek culture. Here’s one, “The Chord That SAVED...

I watched After Yang on Showtime last night. I had come across it in channel listings and thought—like most people, I suppose—what an odd...

Last month, The Line of Best Fit ran a piece in their “Nine Songs” series on Howard Shore. Naturally, I set aside the link to take time...

I have a soft spot for Logan’s Run—the last big pre-Star Wars sci-fi film. Somehow I came across this YouTube video of multiple angles,...

Here’s a recent article from BFI about the early days of digital cinema and how its promise has, or hasn’t, played out. Really good...

First of all—what a great World Cup final! Congrats to Argentina. I rewatched 2010. Good film! I always enjoyed it. Terrific cast. Not...

I am enjoying watching the World Cup, as I usually do. I look forward to the final match tomorrow. The passing is so sophisticated, and I...

My friend (and FSM art director) Joe Sikoryak has been blogging and drawing his memoirs, which I’ve enjoyed following:...

NOTE: I wrote this article a year ago, but for various reasons it was not published at the intended site. So I’m running it here before...

One of the fun things (of many) of producing the FSM CD series was getting an education on films and composers who deserve much more...

Farewell to another great composer: Angelo Badalamenti, at 85. Here’s the New York Times obituary. His Twin Peaks theme was an instant...

A quick shout-out for my friend Taylor White at Creature Features who recently recorded a director’s commentary with Kevin Lima for...