Category: Film Music Live

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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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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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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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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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…

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By James Anthony Phillips  Joseph LoDuca has a long history of scoring epic, historical, fantasy, and science fiction series, such as “Zena,” “Hercules” and “The Librarian” For the past several years, he has been the premier composer for Starz’s “Spartacus” mini-series, a violent retelling of Roman history. Rewriting history for cinematic spectacle has long been…

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One of the pleasures of any Oscar category is the come-from-nowhere surprise, the kind of underdog that in its true win turns one onto the work of an artist and a film in particular. For even while “Sweet Dreams of Joy” will outrageously not be performed on the show itself (with only two tunes being…

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