Check out this half-hour piano medley of Ennio Morricone themes from the YouTube channel of Roger Strauss (he has several dozen other...

I recently rewatched Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. Why? I don’t know. Mostly nostalgia. And curiosity for what I would think of it...

Yesterday I dug up and posted a 1997 essay I wrote about the future of film music. It was inspired by my reaction to the Fifth Element...

Recently, a podcast about Hollywood film-scoring ghostwriters reminded me how new scores don’t sell to collectors. It made me think about...

Yesterday I mentioned a podcast about Hollywood insiders that did half an episode about composers and their armies of...

Hollywood Confessional is a podcast with anonymous film industry workers telling their stories about terrible treatment and bad...

It’s the 35th anniversary of the premiere of Star Trek: The Next Generation, the two-hour pilot, “Encounter at Farpoint.” I previously...

I have a “scratch file” of ideas for blog columns that I’ve been relying upon to put up these daily thoughts. I had one on there, “My Top...

I say “Hi Joe!” to my friend Joe Sikoryak, who designed all of our CDs and pretty much everything I worked on from 1997 until,...

Don’t we all hate clickbait? It’s so depressing—in part because it works. I can’t count how many times I’ve seen one of those sci-fi...

I’ve long been fascinated with Michael Piller, the writer/producer who came aboard a floundering Star Trek: The Next Generation in the...

I predicted I would love this show—and I do! What is the single most important thing to great writing? Truthful human behavior. And...

Just a quick plug today for composer David Carbonara’s new jazz album, Back to One. Check it out!

As you can see, I’m a unicorn. So...I’m searching for “my people.” What does this mean? Like all of us, I yearn for belonging and...

Quick screenwriting tip. I was on one of the Facebook screenwriting groups—there are a bunch of them. From time to time, people post...

I wrote a bit dismissively about the Game of Thrones prequel, House of the Dragon, when it premiered. Halfway through the first season—as...

Lukas and Charlie are back (sorry for the gap) and we interview director MICHAEL LEHMANN (Heathers, The Woman in the House Across the...

Another deleted scene from Star Trek: The Motion Picture has been teased online, from the new super-special-edition home video release....

My hometown was in the news this past week, when Florida governor Ron DeSantis evidently arranged to lure under false pretenses newly...

I have a confession to make. All those blaxploitation movies—and all those kung fu movies—and, especially, all those blaxploitation +...

I finished watching Get Back on Disney+. I am so glad this exists. It took me a while to get through because I could only watch so much...

Jean-Luc Godard has died at the age of 91. The New York Times obituary has a pretty good rundown of his remarkable life and movies. I was...

Continued from yesterday. QUICK GUIDE: Secret of Screenwriting 1, 2 and 3. Misc. Tips 1, 2, 3, 4. Above: Reddit/screenwriting. Very...

QUICK GUIDE: Secret of Screenwriting 1, 2 and 3. Misc. Tips 1, 2, 3, 4. Some more notes from my own experience in this crazy field....