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Top 10 Film Scores of 2012
One of the joys of compiling a year-end list is revisiting film scores that I may have forgotten. With so many scores released over the last 12 months, it’s easy for one or more
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Top 10 Film Scores of 2011
Film Score Click Track readers have had their say, now it’s my turn. I wonder if I’ll look back ten years from now and see 2011 as a turning point in my film music
Read More »Readers Poll: Top 10 Film Scores of 2011
2011…what a year in film music! Patrick Doyle took his music in “new” directions. Alexandre Desplat found his music subject to severe dissections. And two more John Williams scores were added to our collections.
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CD Review: Hugo
Martin Scorcese directing a family film? What the what? Based on Brian Selznick’s Caldecott-winning The Invention of Hugo Cabret, HUGO stars Asa Butterfield as an orphan living in the walls of a train station in 1930s
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CD Review: The Lord of the Rings Symphony
It’s been a big year for LORD OF THE RINGS fans. The extended editions were released on Blu-ray in June, THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING celebrates its tenth anniversary, and now we finally see
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9 Favorite Film Scores of Howard Shore
June seems to be Howard Shore month. THE LORD OF THE RINGS extended editions are being released on Blu-ray at the end of the month, it was just announced that RETURN OF THE KING will return to
Read More »Top 10 Film Scores of 2010
Like many film music fans, I tend to lament the current state of film scoring. And then a year-end Top 10 list helps me refocus and appreciate the work that many composers are contributing
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Spend Halloween with Howard Shore
Spend Halloween with Howard Shore as he narrates the 1-one hour radio documentary, UNSETTLING SCORES. Written and produced by John Klepko, the documentary takes us behind the creations of thriller-suspense film music. Shore’s music
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CD Review: The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Let me admit right off the bat that I’m not a TWILIGHT fan. What little I read of Stephenie Meyer’s puerile prose in the first book offended me as a writer. I’ve seen the
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CD Review: Edge of Darkness
When it was announced back in October that John Corigliano’s score for the Mel Gibson thriller EDGE OF DARKNESS had been rejected in the 11th hour (the film was due to open a few weeks
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