Writing these off-the-cuff blog posts are taking me down memory lane. For some reason—maybe the advertising of the next Batman movie?—I...

Vanity Fair has published a fantastic piece by Mark Rozzo about the prevalence of ghostwriters for Hollywood film and television...

I want to write my least-viewed post ever—and with your help, I will! During the 2018 Winter Olympics I started watching curling and oh...

I never set out with this blog to write daily updates, but I don’t want to break the streak. Sometimes I don’t know what to write and...

I am liking this sick, twisted show way more than I thought I would. Especially the opening dance credits! I remember seeing James Gunn’s...

Yesterday I went on our message board and asked people if they could like a tweet of mine. I was hoping to elevate it in the hashtag that...

Hello friends, I need to stress-test a one-hour sci-fi TV pilot, PANOPLAY. Seeking any possible reader—inside the biz, outside, related...

I have read a lot of amateur scripts. For that matter, I have written a bunch of them! I wrote bad scripts for years and years. This took...

Oh my God, my wife and I have a new favorite show. The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window is a...

Interesting question! I have not been watching the show, so I have no opinion. The full themes: Ronja Rövardotter: Boba Fett: I guess...

I had fun yesterday talking about my earliest soundtrack collecting experiences in the 1980s. As with a lot of geek kids of the era—I was...

Writing about John Williams’ 90th birthday, and then the current (boxed) state of my soundtrack collection, reminded me of my earliest...

Feast your eyes on this messy stack of boxes under the stairs—that’s (most of) my CD collection. You can also snoop the spines of some of...

I was writing my 90th birthday tribute to John Williams yesterday when I saw that Douglas Trumbull passed away on Monday. Here’s the...

John Williams turns 90 today—wow! Check out this photo I have with the Great Man himself circa March 2006 (more on this below). Gee, we...

I treated myself to two of the newest releases from Tim Rodier’s Omni Music Publishing: Poltergeist and Sneakers. James Horner’s Sneakers...

I posted this impulsive rant on reddit/screenwriting yesterday, it attracted a lot of eyeballs and comments—so that alone makes me feel...

Above: Spielberg and Lucas with R2-D2. That is not my dad. I was reminded of this story earlier this week while participating in a...

Raised by Wolves is back for a second season on HBOMax. There is so much TV now—and good TV—that it’s an interesting experience to watch...

We watched The Lost Daughter on Netflix. It’s fabulous. High recommend. (By “we,” I mean my wife and I.) If you only like comic book...

I’m running a poll today (2/2/22—whoa! cool numbers) about an idea I had: to offer free feedback on writers’ scripts, but make it public...

I went to see Revenge of the Sith opening weekend in 2005. I felt like a little kid, I was so excited! This was a story I had waited my...

I watched The Two Jakes for the first time last week. I had heard it was not very good...and sorry to say, that was my impression. Robert...

Does anybody know how to program a Wix blog so that it doens’t just scroll indefinitely for hundreds and potentially thousands of blog...