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Bill Conti’s ROCKY II enters the expanded soundtrack ring with my liner notes making the calls!
I’m thrilled to step back into the liner note ring from IV to II to chronicle a Rocky score for Intrada Records as I take on the re-match with Apollo Creed for ROCKY II, my personal favorite in the iconic series, now with Bill Conti’s score unleashed like never before for a thrilling presentation that…
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PAUL LEONARD-MORGAN ventures INTO THE MANOSPHERE and pays them back with PRETTY LETHAL on a new Film Music Live!
Tune into a new Film Music Live videocast as PAUL LEONARD-MORGAN (Limitless, Fellow Travelers, The Boston Strangler) talks about exploring the futuristic beats of toxic masculinity as he journeys with LOUIS THEREOUX: INSIDE THE MANOSPHERE (co-composed with Ross Hamilton), then gets female ballet power payback with the twisted classical rhythms of PRETTY LETHAL. Watch an…
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SVEN FAULCONER was more than Ready for NOT’s second Satanic chase
Satan’s lackeys are having a field day chasing women in the cinema. But that Most Dangerous Game has been given a new spin given that these ladies are no shrinking violets when it comes to robed evil acolytes, hellishly giving back what they get in grief and then some. One might say that real turning…
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JAY McCARROL goes Back to the Canadian Future with NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE
The definition of having no idea what you’re getting into if a fun, offbeat trailer didn’t encourage you to use up a slot in your week’s four AMC Stubs A-List allotment, “Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie” ends up being one of the aborning year’s most delightful TV show you’ve never seen to big…
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SHIRLEY SONG scores the identity crisis of SLANTED
With female body horror the new shape of movie rage, “Slanted” takes that cascading flesh and growing madness in an unexpected direction, here in the even more terrifying realm of being a teenager with dreams of fitting their form into impossible convolutions. Written and directed by Chinese-Australian Amy Wang (“The Birch”), this distinctly American-set moral…
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CHARLES FOX attacks with BUG on Intrada Records
Crawling out now from Intrada Records! Lock up your cats and check your hair! Charles Fox’s Hephaestus Plague is unleashed by Intrada this coming Monday as his teaming with the notorious showman William Castle for a pre-Jaws director Jeannot Szwarc creates a singularly nightmarish experimental electronic score for BUG! I’m lucky enough to have written…
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DMITRI GOLOVKO battles the WAR MACHINE!
Earth has been assaulted more times than the movies can count by killer robots and human-hunting aliens, yet few pictures in recent memory have brought truly frightening blood and thunder, as driven by heroic military know-how across the finish line with death ray and body blasting excitement of Netflix’s “War Machine.” Credit the down under…
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MARCO BELTRAMI takes a stab at SCREAM 7 on a new Film Music Live videocast!
Watch a new Film Music Live videocast as MARCO BELTRAMI (Cursed, Knowing, Snowpiercer) talks about taking a new stab at his O.G. Ghostface sound with SCREAM 7, the scoring franchise he now returns to with a whole new, box office smash slash. It’s an extensive talk on his Goldsmith inspiration and returning to musical stalking…
