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Composer JOBY TALBOT has pure musical imagination for WONKA on a new FILM MUSIC LIVE!
Oompa Loompa it to Film Music Live as composer JOBY TALBOT (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Sing 1 & 2) appears to talk about a magical score and song re-imagining of the iconic candy maker. Take a bite of our sweet year end episode HERE!
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SERENITY flies again as a deluxe double edition CD with DAVID NEWMAN aboard my liner notes!
It’s time to board The Serenity again via Varese Sarabande with more music than ever before in this deluxe two-CD edition, with my liner notes interviewing composer David Newman on putting on a Browncoat for the first time for Joss Whedon’s Firefly for the raggedy spaceship and crew’s cult voyage to the big screen HERE
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Showing how John Morris scored the hilarious crime in CLUE’s 4K
The game is afoot as CLUE makes its 4K debut on Shout! Factory, where I follow up my past “Clue” liner notes on La La Land Records to talk onscreen about John Morris at the hilarious scene of the crime in “Not Just a GameL Scoring Clue!” Get the evidence HERE!
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JERSKIN FENDRIX is the mad musical scientist of POOR THINGS
(Photo by Kaye Song) In a Hollywood always asking for a score that sounds like nothing else ever created before, Jerskin Fendrix’s music for “Poor Things” is the genuine first-on-earth laboratory experiment come to wonderfully bizarre life. Stepping forth from a brain transplant alchemy of warped tinkertoy sounds, sweetly unhinged melody and beyond high-pitched voices,…
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THE BEST SCORES OF 2023
THE BEST SCORES OF 2023 (Click on the titles to view the soundtracks) Hans Zimmer THE CREATOR (Hans Zimmer / Hollywood Records) From a child’s dark dreamland in “Paperhouse” to the intoxicatingly spice-strange, Oscar winning tribal planet called “Dune,” Hans Zimmer’s innovative talents have made him particularly adept at musical world-building. Though impressively decked…
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BRANDON ROBERTS carves up the choice slasher score cuts for THANKSGIVING!
There’s nothing better that slasher score fans getting served up than a table full of screaming brass, slithering strings and knife-hammering percussion, all with the gravy of final girl emotional melody. On those notes, those aficionados of blasting terror scoring will eat well when listening to Brandon Robert’s tastily throttling score for “Thanksgiving.” It’s filmmaker…
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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…
