I was barely even aware that the new Game of Thrones prequel was coming out already. I watched the premiere of House of the Dragon last...

This Sunday, please treat yourself to Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling losing their minds when surprised by an irreverent British talk-show...

The great comic book artist Tom Palmer has died at 80. I was an avid comic book reader in the mid-1980s, at the peak of the “Marvel Age”:...

Above is a random page—and I mean random, I just went to anyplace in the pdf—of Tony Gilroy’s script to The Bourne Supremacy. I DID NOT...

QUICK GUIDE: Secret of Screenwriting 1, 2 and 3. Misc. Tips 1, 2, 3, 4. When we left off, we were talking about coming up with a great...

QUICK GUIDE: Secret of Screenwriting 1, 2 and 3. Misc. Tips 1, 2, 3, 4. THE ACTUAL METHOD (TO WRITING AN UNDENIABLE SCREENPLAY) If you...

QUICK GUIDE: Secret of Screenwriting 1, 2 and 3. Misc. Tips 1, 2, 3, 4. I am a writer and filmmaker who has spent a lot of time and money...

I want to thank Jeff Bond who pointed out a Guardian piece by Paul Verhoeven, of all people, about the joys of watching Columbo. I...

Did it ever feel like Jerry Goldsmith’s scores were so good, and sometimes the movies were so bad, that it was as if he was scoring a...

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...