I predicted I would love this show—and I do! What is the single most important thing to great writing? Truthful human behavior. And...

Just a quick plug today for composer David Carbonara’s new jazz album, Back to One. Check it out!

I wrote a bit dismissively about the Game of Thrones prequel, House of the Dragon, when it premiered. Halfway through the first season—as...

Lukas and Charlie are back (sorry for the gap) and we interview director MICHAEL LEHMANN (Heathers, The Woman in the House Across the...

I have a confession to make. All those blaxploitation movies—and all those kung fu movies—and, especially, all those blaxploitation +...

I finished watching Get Back on Disney+. I am so glad this exists. It took me a while to get through because I could only watch so much...

Jean-Luc Godard has died at the age of 91. The New York Times obituary has a pretty good rundown of his remarkable life and movies. I was...

Well, this was cool! I haven’t been to the Hollywood Bowl in years—I hate the parking! But John Williams conducted his annual...

John Anderson, the wonderful Canadian actor who gave a great performance as the tormented alien in “The Survivors” in Star Trek: The Next...

Here’s a stupid picture of me with Quincy Jones circa 2012. It was some film music gathering, I remember where it was (on the Sunset...

I watched the six-episode Light & Magic documentary on Disney+, directed by Lawrence Kasdan, about (what else) Industrial Light and...

Today, please enjoy this five-minute audio conversation between Robin Williams and George Lucas. Who knows where people find this stuff?...

I am watching the Disney+ documentary Light and Magic, about the formation and early years of visual-effects powerhouse ILM, and loving...

Recently I posted an essay about the appeal of Star Trek. I’m glad it was generally well received. At the time, I got a question—how...

I remember an incident in gym class some time in elementary school. Good ol’ West Tisbury Elementary—and Pat Schofield, a nice woman who...

I was barely even aware that the new Game of Thrones prequel was coming out already. I watched the premiere of House of the Dragon last...

This Sunday, please treat yourself to Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling losing their minds when surprised by an irreverent British talk-show...

The great comic book artist Tom Palmer has died at 80. I was an avid comic book reader in the mid-1980s, at the peak of the “Marvel Age”:...

I want to thank Jeff Bond who pointed out a Guardian piece by Paul Verhoeven, of all people, about the joys of watching Columbo. I...

Sorry, don’t have much for your folks today. Except that I did want to say how much I am savoring the final episodes of Better Call Saul....