You know who is a smart man? Harrison Ford is a smart man. One of the many pleasures of the original Blade Runner is the ambiguity as to...

Just a short note today to refer people to this terrific new article on Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs in Quillette. I think I found it...

I got my new CD player for the computer so I am happily catching up with Quartet Records’ latest releases. So great! Piero Piccioni...

I got a huge package of CDs from Quartet Records and I am so excited to listen to them! But I am waiting on a new CD player to hook up to...

So much bad news in the air, not least of which is the omicron variant of Covid. So today I’d like to give a shout-out to one of my...

UPDATE 3/8/22: Wow, was I grouchy when I wrote the below! So many negative ways to express things. Sorry!!! But for posterity’s sake,...

I’d like to do a little music theory today. Maybe somebody smarter than I am will read this and offer some wisdom? I love James Horner’s...

My daughter (7) drew the above as part of a school assignment. It thought it was hilarious. I would like to produce movies and...

If you’re like me, you love Jerry Goldsmith’s score to Capricorn One. But did you love it enough to choreograph and produce a ballet...

I’m glad people enjoyed the Leonard Rosenman memories yesterday. Today’s post is way more stupid. I can’t believe it’s been 25 years...

I’ve wanted to write this piece for some time, but have put it off because it’s a little complicated—and, also, personal and emotional....

The Expanse is back on Amazon Prime (because space freak Jeff Bezos loved it, and rescued it from cancelation) for its sixth and final...

A couple of passings came across the news yesterday. First, Keiko Nobumoto, the screenwriter for the original Cowboy Bebop, as well as...

Netflix has canceled the live-action Cowboy Bebop, which debuted only three weeks ago. I found the show disappointing and am not...

I was very sad to learn that the great comic book artist George Pérez announced a pancreatic cancer diagnosis. He is truly one of the...

Star Trek: The Motion Picture was released 42 years ago yesterday. Like most Trekkies I have a lot of fascination with this film: the...

Yesterday was the thirtieth anniversary of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. Wow! I don’t really pay attention to movie...

This is a large topic that I’ve been meaning to tackle, but don’t have too much time to spend on it now. I studied music in college,...

Happy final (eighth) night of Hanukah. Here we are rocking TWO tabletop menorahs—plus a third Lego menorah!

William Marshall was a distinguished actor of film, television and the stage. He performed Shakespeare, including the lead in Othello six...

The above screen cap was posted on twitter by a writer named Dave Crosman. It looks to me like it was written by an A.I. I loosely follow...

I’m glad people seemed to enjoy the story yesterday about the unreleased Predator/Die Hard CD from 1994. I’m glad to provide some insight...

I went into my box of old cassettes looking for a story to tell. Here’s one! The last quarter-century (or more) of soundtrack releases...

Scott Saslow is a terrific graphic designer who followed Film Score Monthly for years as a passionate soundtrack collector. When I was...