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MARK ORTON finds a musical way home as he rides with Alexander Payne and “The Holdovers”
Director Alexander Payne and composer Mark Orton There’s a great theme that runs through filmmaker Alexander Payne’s work that finds curmudgeons bonding on the road, a voyage that takes at first-unlikeable male characters on trip that would give Odysseus pause, dropping them off at the end of California vineyards, rural America and now Boston preppie-college…
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LAURA KARPMAN and NORA KROLL-ROSENBAUM fly with THE MARVELS on Film Music Live
It’s composer powers activate on a new Film Music Live as the cosmically bonded LAURA KARPMAN (The Marvels, Lovecraft Country) and NORA KROLL-ROSENBAUM (What If?, With This Light) talk about a soaring collaboration, particularly when it comes to flying around the byways of The Marvel Universe on the show where you get to ask Hollywood’s…
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CARLOS RAFAEL RIVERA checkmates cooking CHEMISTRY on a new Film Music Live!
Watch a new Film Music Live videocast with composer CARLOS RAFAEL RIVERA as he talks about Walking Among Tombstones with the mean grooves of Liam Neeson to an Emmy checking mate in his score for The Queen’s Gambit, and now cooking up a tasty grrll power period table for Amazon +’s Lessons in Chemistry. It’s…
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THE NEWTON BROTHERS enter FREDDYS and demolish the house of USHER on a new Film Music Live videocast
Talk to the composers who are helping FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDYS tear apart the box office with their ghoulish tunes for possessed animal robots, all as they majestically tear down the HOUSE OF USHER on Netflix as THE NEWTON BROTHERS (The Haunting of Hill House, Doctor Sleep, Midnight Mass) join a new Film Music Live…
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JOSEPH LoDUCA and DON MANCINI cast a videocast vote for CHUCKY!
CHUCKY slays for the first half of his White House season! Check out my new videocast of Film Music Live as composer JOSEPH LoDUCA (The Evil Dead) and Good Guy creator and showrunner DON MANCINI talk about teaming to talk about the no strings sorcery of playing a horror icon’s big small screen antics on…
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Brian McOmber scores the skewed office and bedroom politics that are anything but “Fair Play”
“Fair Play” composer Brian McOmber A searing return to the kind of sexually heated, button-pushing provocation that’s being trumpeted by some as being a corporate spin on “Fatal Attraction,” Netflix’s “Fair Play” offers an even bigger element of the madness that big business will drive people too, no more so than an ego-wounded husband-to-be who…
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Christopher Willis groovily takes on PC with the “Old Dads”
When one thinks of composer Christopher Willis, brash “Hangover”-ish rock scoring might not come to mind. More like the spot-on symphonic (and very ironic) lock-step salute to the Russian masters in “The Death of Stalin” or the mock patriotism of HBO’s “Veep,” as done for the foul-mouthed master satirist Armando Iannuci – who also…
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CHARLIE CLOUSER plays a videocast game for SAW X
Choose to play a game at a new Film Music Live videocast as composer CHARLIE CLOUSER (Resident Evil Extinction, Death Sentence, Childhood’s End) looks into two decades of moral puzzle solving mayhem with Jigsaw that now hits X times with his most unusually emotional franchise score yet, all while demonstrating his demented instruments and reviewing…
