When did May 4th become the Star Wars holiday? It’s not even the release date—that was May 25, 1977. I looked it up, and it somehow has...

I am loving Winning Time! And I say that as a lifelong Boston sports fan. The title sequence is terrific: I had been unsure whether the...

Many thanks to the team at CenterFrame who had me on the premiere YouTube episode of their “Make It Short” series, talking about Sky...

A shout-out today to one of my favorite short films of all time: Live at the Necropolis: The Lords of Synth (2016), which aired on Adult...

Here’s the new episode of my screenwriting “power hour” (neither an honor, nor full of power) with my pal Charlie Vignola. We’re really...

The other day I had a little melodic fragment stuck in my head—but I couldn’t remember what it was from. This seems to be happening to me...

Let me tell you about the time that a friend and I accidentally/simultaneously wrote Free Guy. And you can read it, if you want! You may...

Okay folks, today’s “a good one”! Another one of my encounters with the greats (a la the John Williams story) that’s full of...

I loooooooove Jerry Fielding. I was first exposed to him via his two Star Trek scores, “The Trouble With Tribbles” and “Spectre of the...

So this whole column is a nothingburger: turns out I was remembering something wrong! The name of R2-D2 famously came from postproduction...

I used to tape weird stuff off of TV. I have a couple of boxes of VHS tapes in a closet here, and several more in my mom’s basement....

That was fun yesterday—in case you missed it, I randomly blew off steam about an old pet peeve of mine, which is when we’d release a cool...

Above is a computer “wallpaper” screen that Joe Sikoryak made for us circa 2008. You can find this and a few others on our website, under...

There’s a lot of stress when you run a CD label. And the biggest nightmare (other than a project being canceled on you) is when you...

First off, I know that most of the people who read this blog are from the film score world, not the aspiring-screenwriting world—and...

One of my all-time favorite shows is Mad Men. That’s not exactly an outlier opinion. So I was delighted to learn that composer David...

Here’s something I had blocked out of my memory: an attempt to make, circa 2009, a free FSM “sampler CD” from our albums released out of...

Happy Easter (and Passover, to my people). Sorry, I don’t have anything holiday related. I came across the above video about Cowboy...

Episode 5 of my YouTube screenwriting show with Charlie Vignola is up, and we talk about the ways to make a good script great. This was a...

Amin Matalqa is a director whose debut feature, Captain Abu Raed (2007), was the first film produced in Jordan in 50 years, and won the...

Neumation Music has published excerpts from a J.A.C. Redford interview about his work orchestrating for James Horner. It’s very...

Billions wrapped up its sixth season Sunday night. I guess there will be at least one more? I have enjoyed this show way more than I...

There were many fun things about producing the FSM catalog—chiefly, getting to access great film music and release it to the fans! But...

I asked people to visit my IMDB page to goose my stupid “star” rating—and it worked! Thanks! I’m up to #82,623 or so this—fun! Hey, it’s...