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JOSHUA MOSHIER blows up the Looney Tunes!
Joshua Moshier (photo by Sally Ryan) We owe a debt to the WB funny animals for molding generations of composers from TV-addicted kids. Porky, Daffy, Bugs and Elmer were their gateway drug when it came to their ingenious kick in the pants to the classics as Wagner’s Ring Cycle and Rossini’s “Barber of Seville” along…
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Talking about movie songs with THE MONSTER PARTY!
I’m just singing on my return to the Monster Party podcast to groove with these maniacs about our favorite tunes in genre films! Check it out HERE! ****** MONSTER PARTY HAS A SONG IN ITS HEART. NOW WE’LL NEVER GET IT BACK IN ITS JAR! JAMES GONIS, SHAWN SHERIDAN, LARRY STROTHE, and MATT WEINHOLD, get…
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Composer ALDO SHLLUKU and Filmmaker GEORGE GALLO ride THE COMEBACK TRAIL on a new Film Music Live!
Watch a new videocast of Film Music Live as composer ALDO SHLLAKU (Kill ‘Em All, The Price We Pay, Lupin the 3rd) and writer-director GEORGE GALLO (Bad Boys, Midnight Run, Middle Men) talk about teaming for a hilarious last round-up as Robert DeNiro’s desperate producer hopes to cash out on Tommy Lee Jones’ already catastrophic…
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JOHN SCOTT talks about WAKE IN FRIGHT for a spectacular 4K restoration!
It’s time to at last go insane down under with the unforgettable WAKE IN FRIGHT! Canadian director Ted Kocheff’s extreme Aussie classic is now searingly restored in several astonishing versions from Umbrella Entertainment by producer Mark Hartley, with the extras featuring my audio interview with the great English composer JOHN SCOTT on creating his haunting,…
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Rocking out with the zombie metalheads of John Carpenter’s GHOSTS OF MARS on 4K
Out now from Scream Factory! Get pierced by the metalheads of John Carpenter’s GHOSTS OF MARS HERE on 4K, with my Ballyhoo Motion Pictures segment “Assault On Outpost 13” looking at the director’s most barbarically rocking score of all in the company of Anthrax and Buckethead!
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JAY WADLEY scores a bloody valentine for the meet cute slasher HEART EYES
In the fine tradition of “My Bloody Valentine’s” heart-ripping miner and “Valentine’s” Cupid-faced killer, not to mention “Scream’s” Evard Munch-styled slasher with a sense of gallows humor, the glowing “Heart Eyes” joins a list of love-hating masked maniacs with a weapon to grind against the holiday – in this very agile case pointed arrows, martial…
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ANTONIO PINTO pilots FLIGHT RISK on a new Film Music Live!
Let ANTONIO PINTO (City of God, Collateral, Mosquito Coast) be your pilot on a new Film Music Live videocast as he talks about his suspenseful score to Mel Gibson’s FLIGHT RISK and the future shock requiem in the year 2073. It’s an in depth look on what it takes to keep aloft for the acclaimed…
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ZACK RYAN makes his musically haunting PRESENCE known
Composer Zack Ryan (photo by Chris Violette) There’s an omniscient symphonic entity haunting “Presence” that powers filmmaker Steven Soderbergh’s Steadicam spook, and it’s not what you’d expect – especially given a lower budget that has to rely on acting and atmosphere as opposed to “Haunted Mansion”-level effects. Yet within walls where an intimate approach would…
