My friend Charlie Vignola and I recorded a third episode of our “show.” We know that very few people are watching these—and of course,...

My old friend Mike Schiff, over at the message board, helpfully reminded us on this April Fool’s Day about the “joke release lists” that...

One of the benefits of producing the FSM CD catalog was that I got a hell of an education in weird and obscure movies from the past. I...

Congrats to Hans Zimmer for his Oscar win for Best Score for Dune. I thought it was clearly the best score of 2021, and the obvious...

Jack Sheldon (1931–2019) had a hell of a life. He was an all-time great jazz trumpet player and first-call session musician. (Buy the...

A very boring Oscars suddenly got very interesting—although I already feel dirty from the Monday morning memes and hot-takes. Like most...

Taylor White’s Creature Features store in Burbank used to host live events (panels and gallery openings) and boy were those fun. The...

Marc Silvestri is a very successful comic book artist and creator. He is one of the founders, and the current CEO, of Image Comics. And...

Lyndon “Lyn” Williams, chairman of the Goldsmith Society, sent this wonderful album of composer photos which I’ve posted at Facebook...

Live on tape on YouTube—my friend Charlie Vignola and I are back to talk about screenwriting. This week we look at some loglines tweeted...

I noticed some folks on our message board discussing the 2003 Thunderball CD (with the expanded track list, which I put together for EMI)...

Above is a pic of Gordon Parks, who directed Shaft and Shaft’s Big Score! but had a rich and consequential life well beyond that. When we...

Here’s a pretty amazing find: a 30-minute behind-the-scenes look at the making of the 1972 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, with a...

My wife and I loved this crazy movie! As far as we’re concerned, it’s the first worthy successor to Idiocracy—skewering our dumb culture,...

Film Score Monthly has endured as long as it has basically because of luck and the kindness of strangers: specifically, the luck I had in...

I’ve thought about hosting a podcast, because it might be fun and also help my “brand.” (Is that too blunt?) I enjoy public speaking and...

Yesterday there was some drama on “screenwriting Twitter” because Shia LaBeouf likes to enter a lot of screenwriting competitions. Yes,...

Wow! A blast from the past. Part 1: Part 2: Part 3 (looks like Jon Kaplan is being swallowed up by the sun): This was so much fun to...

I was, like most, shocked and saddened to learn of the death of William Hurt. He was a great actor and a unique leading man with his...

I’m doing a major reorganization of decades’ worth of files on my home computer drive. I’ll post some of the interesting things I’ve...

If you’re interested in learning more about the terrible situation in Ukraine, here is a very insightful (albeit depressing) piece by...

This is another piece I dashed off at the Scriptfella Facebook group. I thought people might not like it, but the reaction, thus far, has...

The Wrap published a terrific retrospective by Drew Taylor on the ill-fated John Carter (2012), ten years later. I’m always morbidly...

NOTE: I dashed this off yesterday to the Scriptfella screenwriting group on Facebook. Somebody soon replied, “My brain hurts.” Haha! Do...