Though the standard rap is that screenplays are unreadable, I’ve always felt that they can be as inspirational as the great movies that spring from them. Fueling high hopes for the live action (with animation) musical project ⁦Michael Giacchino⁩ & I are working on with these...

Ingmar Bergman — The relationship between the artist and his audience.

We have a good home theater too & SOUL played well there. But it doesn’t compare with the electric buzz of seeing a movie without interruption on a GIANT screen in a great theater packed with strangers.
A movie’s moment in that particular sun grows ever shorter & more sacred.

CONGRATULATIONS to Pete Docter, Pixar & the SOUL team. Funny, creative, touching, endlessly inventive, it’s a healing balm for our better angels in a punishing time. Tho I’m sad people won’t experience its wonders with strangers on a big screen, I’m so glad it’s out in the world.

Fun mashup of Johnny Marks RUDOLPH song & Michael Giacchino’s INCREDIBLES theme, for those who like their nog heavy on the rum and their Christmas music epically BRASSY!

Soon, 2020 will be hindsight.

It’s a Holiday FAVORITE!!!!

COME! ON!!!!
GORGEOUS pristine images of perfectly preserved film of the world’s greatest band never seen before. Give me my Vaccine (after a lot of other people) and GET ME BACK IN THOSE CINEMAS!

Beatles: Get Back - from Peter Jackson youtu.be/UocEGvQ10OE via YouTube

2020 is the year that made us all Kari at the end of her babysitting gig.

Yeah — GET ON IT EDITORS!!!

Nah— both those guys were good. It has to be more PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE-ish. Who did the music for PLAN 9? Gordon Zahler!
Gordon Zahler buying stock music by Bruce Campbell, Trevor Duncan, Van Phillips and Steve Race! At discount prices!

Can my eyes roll farther back into my head? This whole thing — from the off-brand Golan-Globus sound of “Space Force” to the lame Star Trek ripoff logo to calling their cadets “Guardians” — sounds like it was coughed up by a Cminus student in a Junior High creative writing class.

It’s a start.

Need some good news at the end of 2020? Here are some of the wins for people and for planet. fal.cn/3ch9I

9 years ago today, Ethan Hunt and the whole IMF team swung back into theaters for Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol. #Skydance10 #MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol

These classic WB cartoons were made for ADULTS first and foremost, a key to their longevity that most people miss. Kids like them (because, hey, they’re really funny), but they weren’t aimed at kids.

Check out Frank Abney’s touching new film CANVAS. You’ll be glad you did. Go Frank!