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Alan Silvestri’s MOUSE HUNT romps on Varese Sarabande’s CD Club!
Today’s the day when you can really romp with a wilder musical MOUSE HUNT as Varese Sarabande’s CD Club unleashes a bigger, better trap of Alan Silvestri’s delightful score, with my liner notes featuring new interviews with director Gore Verbinski and writer Adam Rifkin on this comedy classic where Roger Rabbit’s composer jumped into the…
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Andrew Hollander plays the movie mania of “Once Upon a Time in Uganda”
It takes a village to make a good film that lives on in the high-quality pantheon of notable Oscar pictures. But perhaps it takes even more to make incomprehensibly entertaining pictures that prove just as popular. In America, the latter examples of lunatically enthusiastic movies include “The Room,” “Birdemic” and “Troll 2.” But in tragedy-wreaked…
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Stephanie Economou makes the musical call in high school and under the sea for “Ruby Gillman Teenage Kraken”
When the multiplex is all agawk over a sweet little mermaid, leave it to her seeming bestie “Ruby Gillman Teenage Kraken” to show she’s no ugly duckling when it comes to showing who’s really all that in the hallways and the seven seas. Leave it to her musical avatar Stephanie Economou to bring hip pop…
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THE BOUNTY blu sets sail from Imprint with a tribute to Vangelis
A grand blu box set of THE BOUNTY has now set sail from Down Under on Imprint, with my segment “Limits of Endurance” detailing the course of Vangelis’ extraordinary score. It’s among the copious extras of my favorite cinematic telling of the tale from Daniel Griffith at Ballyhoo Motion Pictures. Order from Imprint HERE, find…
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Playing a PACIFIC BREEZE lawyer who keeps his eyes on the documents
I’m happy to be playing the officious lawyer Tristan Morgan in Fred Copeland‘s streaming serial PACIFIC BREEZE. Check out the first episode of the season, with new entries appearing seaside on Thursdays to the climactic chapter on June 22 HERE
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Brazil’s Marcelo Zarvos bites into the culturally rich music of Chicano success for “Flamin’ Hot”
For an industry created by immigrants, Hollywood has often liked nothing better than an inspirational rise to the top story of an ethnic community’s underdog beating The Man’s system at its own game. And in the case of the true-life story of “Flamin’ Hot,” it’s how Chicano Frito Lay janitor Richard Montañez saved a floundering…
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Danny Elfman’s unleashed Nightbreed to go berserk on Intrada Records!
The Midian’s out of the Intrada bag, properly announced on the day of the ultimate monster kid composer’s birthday. As a beyond huge fan of Clive Barker’s Nightbreed and Danny’s berserker score, this has been a grail project over a decade long in the making for me to do the liners for as a follow…
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The Great Season 3 Videocast with Nathan Barr!
Huzzah for a new Film Music Live videocast as NATHAN BARR talks about returning as the new court composer of THE GREAT, finishing the saga of the oppressed Faerie Folk on CARNIVAL ROW, channeling fear with Eli Roth, his obsession with the mighty Wurlitzer organ and telling us what chilling strains to expect whenever a…
