I only recently discovered a 2012 Guy Farley score to a 1960s-era caper comedy, The Hot Potato. I was listening to it cold (long story)...

This is sort of funny. My wife and I have been watching Outlander. We affectionately call it “Hunky and Chickie.” Good show. There seems...

This week Charlie and I talked to Ashley Scott Meyers, whose website is called SellingYourScreenplay.com. Guess what it’s about! He...

The great author and historian David McCullough has died. He was a longtime West Tisbury resident, so when we read one of his books in...

Sorry, don’t have much for your folks today. Except that I did want to say how much I am savoring the final episodes of Better Call Saul....

I remember the Cold War, thinking that at any moment I’d go outside and see something like the above (a screen cap from The Day After)....

Charlie Vignola and I are continuing our YouTube interview series—which I know I need to get set up as an audio-only podcast, forgive me....

Above: Mike Lang, photographed by Dan Goldwasser. I was so sorry to hear of the passing of Mike Lang (1941–2022), one of the all-time...

Above: A featured fish—it neither swims nor flies! Yes, there is a secret to loglines, and it is this: have your logline express a...

I just want everybody out there to know that I have been closely involved with film music for over 30 years. And it was not until this...

We all read the bizarre news yesterday that Warner Bros. has decided to completely scrap a nearly finished Batgirl film that cost some...

I predicted last week, in my write-up of Obi-Wan Kenobi, that Andor would be good. See the new trailer, above. My prediction was mostly...

There has been a sea change in the cultural perceptions of black women the last 80 years. The default impression went from this... To...

There sure is a lot of random stuff on YouTube. This is the time of year when “nest cams” livestream baby birds. These are fun to show...

I don’t have a lot of regrets over my time at Film Score Monthly. Sure, I made a lot of mistakes and had embarrassing moments—but that’s...

Does anybody care what I think of the new Obi-Wan show? I finally watched it, well after everybody else, because we’ve been rotating...

Yesterday on our “Screenplay Power Hour” (neither an hour, nor full of power), Charlie Vignola and I talked to Isabel Dréan, who is...

There’s an interesting piece in Vulture from an anonymous visual effects artist complaining about how hard Marvel is on the VFX houses. I...

Here’s something I find mildly hilarious. Anonymous Content is one of the most prestigious management/production companies in Hollywood...

I finished watching Night Sky on Amazon—the eight-episode first season—and I mean finished. The show was canceled before I even started...

This blog is not planned out. I have a “scratch list” of ideas which I sometimes draw from, sometimes not. I like doing a combination of...

There are some things that you imagine would be cool to do—but you never think you’ll do them. Fly a fighter jet or win an Oscar, things...

New on my screenwriting YouTube show, Lukas and Charlie interview literary manager DAN SECO of Empirical Evidence. A freewheeling talk...

Last week I wrote about recent shows that are so weird and withholding in their story elements, I often find them laborious to watch. I...