One of the things that literary managers tell new screenwriters is to be prepared to name some of your favorite movies—and specifically,...

I was wondering how long I could keep doing a daily blog post. Fortunately, the Internet wormhole helps facilitate short posts, like this...

I used to love This Week in Baseball. Before ESPN, Sportscenter and a million cable channels with their overpriced sports packages, it...

Like everybody else I saw the announcement earlier this week about new Star Wars films. There have been so many of these announced, and...

My twin girls wanted to watch Titanic. They are almost nine and they have friends (girls) at school who are crazy for it. So we started...

I love this: an audio engineer has located and uploaded the original take of the famous “Wilhelm scream,” a sound effect created for the...

Here’s an interesting article from The Atlantic (paywall) about one-hit wonders. Somebody figured out the pattern with them—it’s in the...

SPOILERS for last night’s episode of Succession. Although if you’ve been anywhere online this morning, hard to believe it hasn’t been...

Happy Passover! Happy Easter! And my favorite... Happy new episode of Succession!

I finished watching Daisy Jones & the Six on Amazon and really enjoyed it. This is a “fake biopic” (an Almost Famous-type movie) of a...

I don’t get excited for a lot of movies anymore...but I’m definitely excited for Dune Part Two. Or Dune 2. Or Dune, Part II, however the...

It seems way more likely than not that the WGA will go on strike May 1st. I’m not the best person to explain why, but there are a ton of...

The above image is a gag from Love Boat Insanity, which I highly recommend. But this is real—my compliments to whoever cut this together:...

Sad news as the magnificent Japanese composer and recording artist Ryuichi Sakamoto has died. He had been battling cancer for nearly a...

My compliments to whoever swapped out Timothée Chalamet with Elmo in Dune: Haha!

Some 200 movies are departing HBOMax in April—ahead of its merger with Warner Bros.’ Discovery streaming service. I read that the plan...

There have been numerous closures of Los Angeles restaurants since the start of the pandemic—many of them beloved institutions. I get...

I’m sure you’re familiar with Star Trek: The Motion Picture. You may be familiar with a terrific oral history published by Creature...

Happy birthday to William Shatner, 92 today (3/22/23). This man is a force of nature, and has the constitution of an ox. If I understand...

I saw that the Shazam sequel underperformed. I don’t have much of an opinion. I remember seeing the first of the Marvel films that kicked...