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JERSKIN FENDRIX is the mad musical scientist of POOR THINGS
(Photo by Kaye Song) In a Hollywood always asking for a score that sounds like nothing else ever created before, Jerskin Fendrix’s music for “Poor Things” is the genuine first-on-earth laboratory experiment come to wonderfully bizarre life. Stepping forth from a brain transplant alchemy of warped tinkertoy sounds, sweetly unhinged melody and beyond high-pitched voices,…
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THE BEST SCORES OF 2023
THE BEST SCORES OF 2023 (Click on the titles to view the soundtracks) Hans Zimmer THE CREATOR (Hans Zimmer / Hollywood Records) From a child’s dark dreamland in “Paperhouse” to the intoxicatingly spice-strange, Oscar winning tribal planet called “Dune,” Hans Zimmer’s innovative talents have made him particularly adept at musical world-building. Though impressively decked…
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BRANDON ROBERTS carves up the choice slasher score cuts for THANKSGIVING!
There’s nothing better that slasher score fans getting served up than a table full of screaming brass, slithering strings and knife-hammering percussion, all with the gravy of final girl emotional melody. On those notes, those aficionados of blasting terror scoring will eat well when listening to Brandon Robert’s tastily throttling score for “Thanksgiving.” It’s filmmaker…
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MARK ORTON finds a musical way home as he rides with Alexander Payne and “The Holdovers”
Director Alexander Payne and composer Mark Orton There’s a great theme that runs through filmmaker Alexander Payne’s work that finds curmudgeons bonding on the road, a voyage that takes at first-unlikeable male characters on trip that would give Odysseus pause, dropping them off at the end of California vineyards, rural America and now Boston preppie-college…
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LAURA KARPMAN and NORA KROLL-ROSENBAUM fly with THE MARVELS on Film Music Live
It’s composer powers activate on a new Film Music Live as the cosmically bonded LAURA KARPMAN (The Marvels, Lovecraft Country) and NORA KROLL-ROSENBAUM (What If?, With This Light) talk about a soaring collaboration, particularly when it comes to flying around the byways of The Marvel Universe on the show where you get to ask Hollywood’s…
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CARLOS RAFAEL RIVERA checkmates cooking CHEMISTRY on a new Film Music Live!
Watch a new Film Music Live videocast with composer CARLOS RAFAEL RIVERA as he talks about Walking Among Tombstones with the mean grooves of Liam Neeson to an Emmy checking mate in his score for The Queen’s Gambit, and now cooking up a tasty grrll power period table for Amazon +’s Lessons in Chemistry. It’s…
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THE NEWTON BROTHERS enter FREDDYS and demolish the house of USHER on a new Film Music Live videocast
Talk to the composers who are helping FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDYS tear apart the box office with their ghoulish tunes for possessed animal robots, all as they majestically tear down the HOUSE OF USHER on Netflix as THE NEWTON BROTHERS (The Haunting of Hill House, Doctor Sleep, Midnight Mass) join a new Film Music Live…
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JOSEPH LoDUCA and DON MANCINI cast a videocast vote for CHUCKY!
CHUCKY slays for the first half of his White House season! Check out my new videocast of Film Music Live as composer JOSEPH LoDUCA (The Evil Dead) and Good Guy creator and showrunner DON MANCINI talk about teaming to talk about the no strings sorcery of playing a horror icon’s big small screen antics on…
