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Ariel Marx hears a unique hiding place that holds “A Small Light”
The tale of the world’s most famous Holland hiding place, and its metaphor of a larger extermination has been told no small amount of times on the big and small screen, perhaps no more famously than in George Stevens’ 1959 adaptation with its memorably symphonic Oscar-nominated score by Alfred Newman. But where the key in…
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All about Vermithrax Pejorative!
Listen in as I join the villagers of Urland to pay lottery tribute to my favorite fire-breathing fantasy of all on Robots Took My Podcast HERE!
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Jeff Cardoni breaks in with the “White House Plumbers”
Whether it be an all-knowing young geek, a friend-zoned sap, a bunch of sarcastic tech bros and two oldster Hollywood mensches, leftie rocker-turned-composer Jeff Cardoni knows how play with the band for an eccentric company of men. But though he’s scored dumb as a board to smart as a supercomputer guys, Cardoni’s encounter with the…
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Elmer Bernstein’s RAT RACE finally wins at La La Land Records!
I’m thrilled to help get La La Lands back off to the release races as I stow my liner notes for Elmer Bernstein’s now-heard score for RAT RACE into the train station locker! As perhaps the wackiest comedy music the great composer wrote in his second score for his Airplane! co-director Jerry Zucker on his…
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“What’s Eating Gilbert Grape” on La La Land Records!
You’ll definitely get stuffed with a wealth of musical riches in La La Land’s debut release of all three scores as such for the cult favorite WHAT’S EATING GILBERT GRAPE. I dig into the musical saga by way of Iowa, Sweden and England in my liner notes for the lovely, unplugged work of Björn Isfält…
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Looking back on “Arcade” and a start at Full Moon Entertainment
I’m thrilled to join Cinema Degeneration’s Albert Pyun Appreciation Month at around the 2:11 mark as I talk about putting in quarters to create the release version of the prolific and much-missed filmmaker’s “Arcade” (its Alan Howarth score now out from Dragon’s Domain Records) as I also reminisce about my start with Charles Band’s DTV…
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Nitin Sawhney answers the scoring question of “What’s Love Got to Do with It?”
When it comes to modern rom-coms, tales of culturally-crossed, destined-to-be soulmates are tales as old as time. Whether it be “Mississippi Masala,” “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” or “The Wedding Banquet,” sons and daughters has defied their hopelessly old school but well-meaning parents and their motherland cultural baggage, often to find happiness with people from…
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Picard Season 3 Videocast with Stephen Barton and Frederik Wiedmann!
Engage with a new Film Music Live videocast as PICARD SEASON 3 composers STEPHEN BARTON (Star Wars Jedi: Survivor) and FREDERIK WIEDMANN (Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox) talk about beaming board a re-energized Enterprise 1701-D to weave their spectacular scoring with the likes of Jerry Golsmith, James Horner and Ron Jones for the acclaimed series…
