Category: INTERVIEWS

John Debney’s The Call + Thriller Soundtrack Reviews

March 23, 2013 | By | Add a Comment
John Debney’s The Call + Thriller Soundtrack Reviews

Just uploaded is a podcast with composer John Debney, wherein we discuss his latest score for director Brad Anderson, The Call. In addition to a review of Lakeshore’s soundtrack album, I’ve added related reviews of Debney’s Dream House (Varese), La-La Land’s Jennifer 8 featuring Christopher Young’s score + Maurice Jarre’s rejected score, and an expanded review of Dana Kaproff’s When a Stranger Calls (Krizterland), which I previously covered in an issue of Rue Morgue magazine.

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Life of Pi

March 13, 2013 | By | Add a Comment
Life of Pi

Released this week by Fox on DVD and Blu-ray is Ang Lee’s film version of Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, so I’ve uplaoded a film review, a CD review of Mychael Danna’s Oscar-winning score, and a podcast interview with Danna’s assistant and collaborator, up-and-coming composer Rob Simonsen

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Podcast with Mama’s composer Fernando Velazquez, and Nostalgic Shockers

February 8, 2013 | By | Add a Comment
Podcast with Mama’s composer Fernando Velazquez, and Nostalgic Shockers

Just uploaded is a podcast with Fernando Velazquez, the lauded Spanish composer of the current box office hit Mama. Also new: Editor’s Blog on nostalgic horror, plus reviews of Joe Dante’s underrated and very badly treated The Hole (Alliance / EOne), and the underrated Devil (Universal), the latter featuring a terrifying score by Velazquez.

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Lorne Balfe scores Prince Harry’s Arctic Heroes

November 8, 2012 | By | Add a Comment
Lorne Balfe scores Prince Harry’s Arctic Heroes

Time’s tight today, so there’ll be no editorial blather, and just the facts. Uploaded is a podcast interview with composer Lorne Balfe regarding his recent scoring of the BBC documentary Harry Welcomes Arctic Heroes [M] (2011) in which four British war vets ski to the North Pole under the sponsorship of Prince Harry for the […]

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Bobby Johnston – Scoring the Independents

October 2, 2012 | By | Add a Comment
Bobby Johnston – Scoring the Independents

Podcast with composer Bobby Johnston (Mother’s Day, No Impact Man: The Documentary), who discusses his preference for using acoustic instruments, and working with iconic independent filmmakers such as Stuart Gordon.

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Packaged Goods: Girls on Film + TIFF Bell Lightbox Programmer Rae Ann Fera

June 12, 2012 | By | Add a Comment
Packaged Goods: Girls on Film + TIFF Bell Lightbox Programmer Rae Ann Fera

Interview with TIFF Bell Lightbox Programmer & Curator Rae Ann Fera regarding the June 17, 2012 installment of the bi-monthly series Packaged Goods: Girls on Film, featuring a collection of commercials, music videos, and animated short films directed by women.

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Imran Ahmad: Composing Music for The Dead (2010)

May 2, 2012 | By | Add a Comment
Imran Ahmad: Composing Music for The Dead (2010)

Composer Imran Ahmad adds a rich new sound to the zombie genre with his score for the Ford Brothers’ The Dead (2010), and in our Q&A he describes selecting the key instruments of his breakthrough score.

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Twisted Metal’s Michael Wandmacher + Grant Kirkhope’s Reckoning

April 9, 2012 | By | Add a Comment
Twisted Metal’s Michael Wandmacher + Grant Kirkhope’s Reckoning

Videogame voundtrack reviews for Grant Kirkhope’s Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning and Michael Wandmacher’s Twisted Metal (Sony), plus an interview with Wandmacher regarding scoring videogames + teaser details on his upcoming horror score, The Haunting in Georgia.

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Darrell Wasyk’s The Girl in the White Coat

April 5, 2012 | By | Add a Comment
Darrell Wasyk’s The Girl in the White Coat

After a lengthy absence from feature films, writer / director Darrell Wasyk (H, Mustard Bath) returns with The Girl in the White Coat, his liberal adaptation of Nikolai Gogol’s short story “The Overcoat,” starring Pascale Montpetit, which begins its engagement at the TIFF Bell Lightbox Friday. Uploaded is both a film review, and an interview with Wasyk, who also discusses his breakthrough film H, and its planned DVD release. Yes, really!

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Picnic (1955), The Roots of Heaven (1958), and Twilight Time’s Julie Kirgo

February 27, 2012 | By | Add a Comment
Picnic (1955), The Roots of Heaven (1958), and Twilight Time’s Julie Kirgo

In Part 2 of my profile of home video label Twilight Time, I interview TT’s resident film historian Julie Kirgo, and discuss the virtues of special features content on DVDs and Blu-rays (and their sudden paucity of late). Also reviewed: TT’s sparkling Blu-rays of Picnic (1955) and John Huston’s awesome, awesome The Roots of Heaven (1958), AND a tally of upcoming Twilight Time releases thru June.

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