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....

Above: a random Aliens page by the master, James Cameron. QUICK GUIDE: Secret of Screenwriting 1, 2 and 3. Misc. Tips 1, 2, 3, 4. ACTION...

Above: a page of Outland CD liner notes. See below for context... QUICK GUIDE: Secret of Screenwriting 1, 2 and 3. Misc. Tips 1, 2, 3, 4....

Check out this video find from our friends at the Post-Geek Singularity. (This is Rob Burnett and Mike Bawden’s site.) It’s the complete...

Star Trek premiered on NBC 56 years ago. (Time for a colonoscopy, Star Trek!) I was, of course, not there. I was born in 1974. But wow...

This is cool—the new Star Trek: The Motion Picture 4K Blu-ray has deleted scenes. Not just the same deleted scenes that we’ve seen in the...

Well, this was cool! I haven’t been to the Hollywood Bowl in years—I hate the parking! But John Williams conducted his annual...

John Anderson, the wonderful Canadian actor who gave a great performance as the tormented alien in “The Survivors” in Star Trek: The Next...

Here’s a stupid picture of me with Quincy Jones circa 2012. It was some film music gathering, I remember where it was (on the Sunset...

I watched the six-episode Light & Magic documentary on Disney+, directed by Lawrence Kasdan, about (what else) Industrial Light and...

Today, please enjoy this five-minute audio conversation between Robin Williams and George Lucas. Who knows where people find this stuff?...

It’s been a slow time for, well, a couple of years, which has been a bit of a drag. But I suddenly have a lot to do. None of which I can...

I had a column here about paying for reads on scripts in progress. I just deleted it because I felt it was too grumpy. Sorry folks! But I...

There’s a Roy Budd crime score I’ve always loved, The Stone Killer, a 1973 Charles Bronson film. It was directed by Michael Winner, who...

My friend Roger Feigelson at Intrada has been posting a fun game on the Intrada message board. I only recently discovered it when he...

I am watching the Disney+ documentary Light and Magic, about the formation and early years of visual-effects powerhouse ILM, and loving...

The big annual Creation Star Trek convention is going on this weekend in Las Vegas. Although I think they lost the Star Trek license so...

“There’s no happiness in showbiz. There’s only relief.” My friend said that to me, and I’m pretty sure he got it from somewhere else, but...

Earlier this week I drove through Culver City, for the first time in years. The Film Score Monthly office was located at 8503 Washington...

Recently I posted an essay about the appeal of Star Trek. I’m glad it was generally well received. At the time, I got a question—how...

I remember an incident in gym class some time in elementary school. Good ol’ West Tisbury Elementary—and Pat Schofield, a nice woman who...