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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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CD Review: Skyfall
Only having recently watched all the Eon-sanctioned Bond films (most of them for the first time) and discovering their scores (also for the first time), I didn’t go into the new Bond film/score with
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The Good German
I’ve made no bones about my love of Thomas Newman‘s work. And THE GOOD GERMAN is one of my favorites. The film is director Steven Soderbergh’s interesting, yet ultimately misguided, attempt to film a 1940′s
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9 Favorite Film Scores of Thomas Newman
There’s no denying that Thomas Newman is one of the finest film composers working today. Along with father Alfred, uncles Lionel and Emil, cousin Randy, and brother David, film music runs in his blood. But
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Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events
Based on the first three books of the popular children’s series, LEMONY SNICKET’S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS follows the Baudelaire orphans–Violet (Emily Browning), Klaus (Liam Aiken) and Sunny–as they are shunted from one odd
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Dead Already
As the world faced a new millennium, it took a British theater director, Sam Mendes, to expose the dirt and secrets beneath the white pickets fences and manicured lawns of suburbia with his the
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Define Dancing
“Dancing: a series of movements involving two partners where speed and rhythm match harmoniously with music.” One of the many joys of watching a Pixar film is the elegance of the animation. While other
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Fish In My Hair!
Moving on from toys, bugs and monsters, Pixar went under the sea and snagged a big fish with FINDING NEMO (2003). This delightful film tells the tale of a young clownfish, Nemo (Alexander Gould), who
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