I no longer remember my first exposure to the music of Alexandre Desplat. It seems like his musical gifts have always...
This is the first year in a long time that I don’t have a favorite film that I’m rooting for...
Even as a confirmed pessimist, I was surprised at how much the state of film music depressed me this year....
The Oscars are arguably the most derided award in film music. Why? Because it has the farthest reach and the...
One of the joys of compiling a year-end list is revisiting film scores that I may have forgotten. With so...
For all our real-time fascination with the Presidency, audiences usually show very little interest in cinematic portrayals of the Commander...
My 50th birthday is approaching so I’ve naturally been taking stock of, well, everything. I’ve been looking back at the...
I wonder if I’ll look back ten years from now and see 2011 as a turning point in my film...
I’ve held off posting a review of Alexandre Desplat‘s score for THE TREE OF LIFE until I had a chance...
Like many film music fans, I tend to lament the current state of film scoring. And then a year-end Top...