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Nainita Desai goes to the hauntingly beautiful extremes of “The Deepest Breath”
Starting to come near to two hundred musical dives in all manner of musical genres from drama (“Crossfire”) to video games (“Immortality”) and television series (“The Man Who Brought Cricket”), Nainita Desai is no better than when musically documenting people pushing themselves to extremes to touch the heavens or recesses of the earth. Segueing through…
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Dascha Dauenhauer strikingly plays Israel’s First Lady at the height of crisis in “Golda”
Born in Kiev and raised in Milwaukee before finding her leadership destiny as Israel’s female force of stone-hard nature, the striking figure of Golda Meir has been on screen in the avenging angel personages of Colleen Dewhurst and Lynn Cohen in “Sword of Gideon” and “Munich,” Ingrid Bergman on the miniseries “A Woman Called Golda”…
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The Puppet Master Axis Trilogy unleashed by Intrada Records!
Barbenheimer doesn’t have anything on Andre Toulon’s Axis-busting doll weapons as Richard Band’s triple threats hit in one glorious package from Intrada Records, with my liner notes talking to the composer about impactfully pulling the soundtrack strings against evil! It’s playtime now HERE!
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“Strays” composer Dara Taylor swears on an uproariously R-rated dog comedy
Cue the soaring strings, whimsical voices and playful percussion and you’ve got a veritable frisbee throw to start an incredible journey that our furry, family-friendly hero is setting off on with the help of his four-footed pals. That’s just the start of the very ironic, yet ultimately actually heartfelt musical dog trick that previous…
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The Heroic Trio of WARRIOR talks about kicking ass for Season 3 on a new Film Music Live!
As the third season of Max’s WARRIOR kicks ass with its conclusion, watch a new episode of my videocast show Film Music Live as the mighty Tong of co-composers H. SCOTT SALINAS and REZA SAFINA (Birth of the Dragon) join with show runner JONATHAN TROPPER (Banshee) to talk about putting an energetically modern step into…
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Varese Sarabande digs up a fresh BLOOD SIMPLE!
I’m thrilled to death to know where the body is buried with my liner notes to Varese Sarabande’s expanded edition of BLOOD SIMPLE, the sanguine gloved window breakthrough of the legendary collaboration between Carter Burwell and The Coen Brothers, featuring a new interview with the composer on his groundbreaking score. It’s a remastered album that’s…
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David Arnold has a license to thrill on a new Film Music Live!
Watch a new Film Music Live as DAVID ARNOLD has a license to to videocast thrill with an extensive, career-ranging interview that looks at the origins of his Stargate theme, taking the 007 baton from John Barry, exploding with the buddy cop action of Hot Fuzz and giving humanity to heaven and hell with a…
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Interview with “The Bear’s” Jeffrey “JQ” Qaiyum
Certainly the biggest TV cooking phenomena to hit since “Hell’s Kitchen,” “The Bear” makes Gordon Ramsey seem positively Pollyanna when it comes to the blistering, scream-in-your-face insanity of a cast of characters that’s anything but what you’d expect from refined dining. Yet that’s the world that disgraced top chef “Carmy” Berzatto crashes into when he…
