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DAVID BUCKLEY dreams of THE SANDMAN on a new Film Music Live videocast!
Watch a new videocast of Film Music Live as composer DAVID BUCKLEY (Lincoln Lawyer, Nobody) waxes on the realizing the score of his dreams for the farewell season and transformation of Netflix’s THE SANDMAN. It’s a grain-filled look at one of the most beautifully haunting scores to grace streaming and the worlds beyond!
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Co-director JUSTIN SCHEIN and composer BOBBY JOHNSTON talk about the inevitabilities of DEATH & TAXES!
As they say, two things in life are certain, but how a documentarian’s dad gets there with bigger implications for everyone in America is a whole lot more welcoming and evocatively scored in “Death & Taxes.” As directed by Justin Schein (along with Robert Edwards) and scored by Bobby Johnston, an eclectic jazz-based soundtrack proves…
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Seeing JAMES HORNER’s explosive rise in a new 4K of BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS!
I’m happy to take on Sador of the Malmori alongside author Jeff Bond, composer David Newman and Sarah Horner for Scream Factory’s explosive new 4K of BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS, as us brave space mercenaries team up for Daniel Griffith’s Ballyhoo Motion Pictures’ segment “A Universe of Possibilities: Becoming James Horner” that takes a comprehensive…
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CHRIS BACON takes on a bad-to-good girl ‘bot with M3GAN 2.0 on a new Film Music Live!
Watch a new Film Music Live videocast as composer CHRIS BACON (Source Code, Bates Motel, 65) talks about bringing devilish fun to the villainess turned T2 good bot M3GAN 2.0, heart to the Goth heroine WEDNESDAY and twisted convincing to HERETIC, all with his on-brand style that’s making him the go-to composer of black humored…
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ENNIO MORRICONE shoots a Bad Lieutenant with a remastered COPKILLER!
Ennio Morricone will hold you captive with Sid Vicious and Harvey Keitel as the actor who personifies twisted NYC intensity gets his first shot as a Bad Lieutenant in the composer’s darkly transfixing precursor to The Untouchables. And I’m happy to write the liner notes for this unsung psychological thriller whose score is now back…
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JOHN DEBNEY smells what The Rock is cooking for a Deluxe Edition release of THE SCORPION KING!
JOHH DEBNEY (Cutthroat Island, The Relic) smells what The Rock is cooking with a majestic two-cd release from Varese Sarabande Records of THE SCORPION KING, a wildly energetic smackdown of eyebrow-raising heavy metal and symphonically sumptuous old-school fantasy adventure that helped propel its star to the Hollywood throne. Read my liner notes featuring new interviews…
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JOHN CARPENTER’s vinyl returns to thrill with the Tenth Anniversary release of LOST THEMES!
It was a truly rocking electric charge when I got to do the liner notes a decade ago for composer-filmmaker John Carpenter’s Lost Themes, the first of his many journeys into the realm of pure music that thrilled the imagination of the mind’s eye. Now I’m equally excited and beyond grateful that Sarcred Bones Records…
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AMANDA JONES is the lethally ironic musical mind of MURDERBOT
Ironically snarky robots go back to the days of Robby in “Forbidden Planet” and C3P0 in “Star Wars.” But it’s doubtful that these wiseacre droids would have had any problem with the Krell monster or The Empire had they been suited up with the arsenal of the organically enhanced Murderbot. Yet for all of his…
