Category: FILM MUSIC
Soundtrack Reviews
Newly uploaded soundtrack reviews of Alexandre Desplat’s Monuments Men (Sony Classical), Jóhann Jóhannsson’s Prisoners (WaterTower Music), and David Arnold + Michael Price’s Sherlock: Season 3 (Silva Screen).
Video Tales I: Rewind This, Firing Up the Betamax, and The Magic Beta Case
The Editor’s Blog goes in-depth with much personal blather about Josh Johnson’s new documentary on VHS collecting, Rewind This! (MPI). In addition to a review of the doc, there’s a review Charlie Sheen’s No Man’s Land as watched on Betamax, a short-short film on “The Magic Beta Case,” and a review of David Gregory’s great doc on Britain’s Video Nasty era – Ban the Sadist Videos! (Severin Films).
News + Soundtrack Reviews
Some site update news & info on upcoming film reviews (plus a short-short video), and soundtrack reviews of Lior Ron’s Pablo (Light Drop Music), and Murray Gold’s Doctor Who Series 7 and the double-billed The Snowmen + The Doctor, the Widow, and the Snowmen (Silva Screen).
Soundtrack Reviews + Major Site Changes
Up are reviews of Silva Screen’s Doctor Who: 50th Anniversary Collection 2-disc set and music from Roger Limb’s Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani, plus an Editor’s Alert regarding a major site overhaul, of which the first changes begin tomorrow.
Soundtrack Reviews
The first quartet of soundtrack reviews this week includes a trio of Borderland 2 add-on games scored by Jesper Kyd, Kevin Riepl and Raison Varner from Sumthing Else; Paul Sawtell and Bert Shefter’s The Last Man on Earth (1964) from Monstrous Movie Music, Nicholas Carras’ She Demon (1958) and Guenther Kauer’s The Astounding She-Monster (1957) from Monstrous Movie Music, and Zucchero’s Snack Bar Budapest (1988) from Polydor.
Soundtrack News + TV Soundtrack Reviews
Some quick soundtrack news + a quartet of TV soundtrack reviews, all 2-disc sets from La-La Land Records: Bear McCreary’s music from the TV series Caprica, J. Peter Robinson’s Charmed, Mark Snow & Louis Febre’s Smallville, and Brian Tyler’s Terra Nova.
Goblin at The Opera House: Recap & EP vinyl Review
Editor’s Blog on Goblin’s first-ever performance in Toronto at The Opera House last week, plus a review of Death Waltz’ limited 12″ EP platter featuring four cuts performed by New Goblin members Maurizio Guarini, Massimo Morante, Claudio Simonetti, and new members Titta Tani and Bruno Previtali.
Marco Beltrami Talks Zombies & Action + Lecture Resources
Podcast with esteemed genre composer Marco Beltrami, who discusses his work in the zombie and action genres, plus CD and Blu-ray reviews of the Beltrami-scored World War Z (Paramount), and the 2-disc Resident Evil 6 soundtrack set (Sumthing Else / ComCast). Also added: links to reading / viewing / listening resources for my Black Museum lecture, Black Glove Ballads.
Space Flights, Acts of Self-Sacrifice, and Strange Sonics
Fresh reviews of space exploration media in the form of Steven Price’s score for Gravity (Water Tower Music) and Sebastian Cordero’s ambitious found footage sci-fi documentary, Europa Report (Magnolia), plus links to actual space sounds!
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