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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…
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All hail JOSEPH LoDUCA as Starz’s SPARTACUS composer enters the arena again for HOUSE OF ASHUR
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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NICHOLAS PIKE rejoices with his “VIVA VERDI! score and its Oscar-nominated song “Sweet Dreams of Joy”
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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MARC SHAIMAN dishes and plays his life on a new Film Music Live videocast!
Watch a new Film Music Live videocast as MARC SHAIMAN (The Addams Family, The First Wives Club, Hairspray) hilariously dishes the stories and piano playing to talk and sing about his new autobiography “Never Mind the Happy: Showbiz Stories from a Sore Winner.” Watch his humorous deep dive recounting of breaking into scoring with Rob…
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Taking an appreciative drink of JOHN CARPENTER’S VAMPIRES on 4K
A big thanks to Daniel Griffith’s Ballyhoo Motion Pictures and down under label Imprint for letting me sink my appreciative teeth again into a filmmaking maestro’s work with the featurette “Stake & Burn: Scoring ‘John Carpenter’s Vampires.’” It’s part of a goon busting arsenal packed 4K edition, now on sale via Imprint HERE or your…
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CARTER BURWELL opens a beautifully ironic soundtrack to THE CELLULOID CLOSET
CARTER BURWELL (Fargo, Twilight) opens a sumptuous, classically styled Hollywood score for an ironic examination of the LGBQ stereotypes that lie within THE CELLULOID CLOSET. Read my liner notes featuring new interviews with Burwell and co-directors ROB EPSTEIN and JEFFREY FRIEDMAN (Common Threads) as they talk about Tinsel Town’s treatment of this gay characters from…
