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...

The temptation for a screenwriter trying to break-in is to think that if you can only land a manager, you’ll make it. Well...the struggle...

Here is a lovely video by filmmaker Paul Goldsmith of Sara and Emily Horner discussing James Horner in his studio, which is practically...

I liked the first episode of Winning Time. And I say that as a lifelong Celtics fan! (I’ve been in L.A. for 25 years, but aside from the...

This is pretty cool: a YouTube channel from Pike Bishop has posted a meticulously created set of re-recordings (done by virtual...

If you like dazzling cinematography, gratuitous softcore nudity, and the sex and drug experiences of 24-year-old teenagers treated like...

Raised by Wolves, which I’ve written about before, just had one of the most bonkers plot developments for a character I’ve ever seen. (No...

Whoa, this is a good movie. Beautiful images, astounding performances. Not at all surprising, considering the credentials of everybody...

Sometimes I am asked, or even wonder myself, if there are any film scores still unreleased I really want to have. And the answer is...not...

Check out this oddball blast from the past I found in a collection of scans I made in 2014. (Right before our twins were born, I scanned...

The Internet is full of lies and toxic sludge...but sometimes you stumble upon art of tremendous beauty, too. This is “Piano Folio...to a...

I am certainly not going to be able to add anything meaningful to say about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine...but it seems important to...