I love Cowboy Bebop, by the great anime director Shinichiro Watanabe. So I was interested to read this new piece in Forbes about him. He...

I have yet to see The Fabelmans—I hear it’s great—but I did see the David Lynch cameo as John Ford near the end. Apparently this was a...

I watched Glass Onion and enjoyed it—what a great cast!—but I did notice that it’s quite unconventional as a “whodunit.” A huge part of...

So this is sort of funny: The kids and I have been watching Lost in Space every afternoon. Not the Netflix Lost in Space—the 1965,...

Happy new year! Wow, 2023! Last night I was reminded by various social media posts of that New Year’s Eve classic, Irwin Allen’s The...

Top Gun: Maverick has landed on Paramount+ (where it’s predictably a big hit), so having heard how great it is the past six months, I...

Empire has published an interview with James Cameron—maybe you’ve heard, his Avatar sequel is now in theaters—but with a twist: the...

It’s the end of the year, so it’s the time for the retrospectives on the state of the film business—such as it is. Here’s a good one from...

I watched Confess, Fletch on Showtime last night. Like the rest of the world, I missed it upon release earlier this year. It was very...

Charles Cornell is a YouTuber who does music education videos involving a lot of pop and geek culture. Here’s one, “The Chord That SAVED...

I watched After Yang on Showtime last night. I had come across it in channel listings and thought—like most people, I suppose—what an odd...

I have a soft spot for Logan’s Run—the last big pre-Star Wars sci-fi film. Somehow I came across this YouTube video of multiple angles,...

Here’s a recent article from BFI about the early days of digital cinema and how its promise has, or hasn’t, played out. Really good...

First of all—what a great World Cup final! Congrats to Argentina. I rewatched 2010. Good film! I always enjoyed it. Terrific cast. Not...

I am enjoying watching the World Cup, as I usually do. I look forward to the final match tomorrow. The passing is so sophisticated, and I...

My friend (and FSM art director) Joe Sikoryak has been blogging and drawing his memoirs, which I’ve enjoyed following:...

NOTE: I wrote this article a year ago, but for various reasons it was not published at the intended site. So I’m running it here before...

One of the fun things (of many) of producing the FSM CD series was getting an education on films and composers who deserve much more...

Farewell to another great composer: Angelo Badalamenti, at 85. Here’s the New York Times obituary. His Twin Peaks theme was an instant...

A quick shout-out for my friend Taylor White at Creature Features who recently recorded a director’s commentary with Kevin Lima for...