Miklós Rózsa fans will want to check out this interview with Daniel Robbins, who has written his memoirs (yet to be published), Memoirs...

During summers in the early to mid 1990s, I worked at a grocery store on Martha’s Vineyard while also doing the earliest newsletter...

One of the coincidences you learn as a die-hard film score fan is that John Williams and Jerry Goldsmith have birthdays the same week in...

Farewell to one of the all-time greats, Burt Bacharach, who has died at 94. Here’s Tim Grieving’s obituary from The Washington Post. I...

I’ve been unusually busy so I haven’t had a chance to watch something I found on YouTube that I’ve always wanted to see: the 1963...

I’ve been lucky—well, not lucky, but it’s happened—to be on both sides of “pitching”: the guy sending emails out to get attention and...

Wow, I’m getting busy. The WCAI piece about my Vineyard project was picked up on Facebook, on some Vineyard discussion groups, so I’ve...

Above: Mytoi Gardens in Chappaquiddick—a location I would love to use! I’ve been talking for some months about an indie comedy–drama I...

Charlie Vignola and I are back with one of our conversation (rants) about screenwriting. Now that Top Gun: Maverick is out—and I’ve seen...

My friend (and longtime FSM art director) Joe Sikoryak has been making promotional videos for Intrada for their new releases. Here is...

I love Cowboy Bebop, by the great anime director Shinichiro Watanabe. So I was interested to read this new piece in Forbes about him. He...

I wrote over a year ago about how one of my childhood fascinations was blueprints for Star Trek ships. This started with the Franz Joseph...

There was an article in the Financial Times about Warner Bros. Discovery possibly selling off its music library as part of its...

An update on the CD orders from my personal collection: Over half of them went out as of Friday. I have those tracking numbers. The rest,...

I’m a couple of weeks late, but FSM’s longtime Joe Sikoryak told the story (circa 1997–98) when he came to the rescue and redesigned the...

I have yet to see The Fabelmans—I hear it’s great—but I did see the David Lynch cameo as John Ford near the end. Apparently this was a...

Our good friends at Creature Features (and yours truly) are working hard to get all the CD orders out. The international ones take the...

I watched Glass Onion and enjoyed it—what a great cast!—but I did notice that it’s quite unconventional as a “whodunit.” A huge part of...

So this is sort of funny: The kids and I have been watching Lost in Space every afternoon. Not the Netflix Lost in Space—the 1965,...

I started selling my personal CD collection one week ago and it’s gone better than I expected! We’ve sold around 550 items, and without...

UPDATE ON MY CD SALE: It continues! Here’s what’s left. Please refer to the day-one column for ordering instructions. P.S. I will soon...

Some readers might know—because I’ve talked about it enough—I want to make an indie film on Martha’s Vineyard. So I was interested to see...

I’ve been asked how long my personal CD sale will run. I don’t know yet! But it will stay open at least for the next week or two, so...

Well, not entirely. Yesterday I went up to Creature Features to help prep the first wave of orders from my CD collection for shipment....