Category: FILM MUSIC
Soap Music
Do people really write music for daytime soaps? Yes! And it’s good, too! Check out the Editor’s Blog before reading the review of La-La Land’s new Days of Our Lives 2-disc set …
It All Comes Back To Caddyshack…
Soundtrack reviews of La-La Land’s Caddyshack (1980) and Nate and Hayes (1983) soundtrack CDs, plus Tales of the Gold Monkey on DVD this June (no, really)…
Doctor Zhivago Blu-ray and More Canadian Release Dates
Among the newly announced dates and titles for Canada are the following…
See the Film, Hear the Music: Panic in Year Zero! (1962)
Film review of Ray Milland’s bleak Panic in Year Zero! (1962), as well as Les Baxter’s soundtrack, newly released by La-La Land Records…
2009 Oscar Nominated Music / Upcoming Score Notables
List of and linked Oscar nominated scores and songs, plus new and upcoming notable soundtrack releases…
Try Harder
Editor’s Blog and blather on the failings of Bruce Willis’ latest film, Surrogates (2009), plus a review of the film, the score, and an interview with composer Richard Marvin…
K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple, Stupid)
The confusions within Christian Alvart’s Pandorum, a relatively bloodless Whiteout, and Jerry Goldsmith’s Innerspace…
John Woo's Redemption
After languishing in Hollywood for several years, John Woo’s finally redeemed himself by tackling an expansive historical epic in Chinese. In Asia, Red Cliff was released in two parts – the first in 2009, the second a year later – and then on DVD and Blu-ray, while the rest of the world was apparently offered a shorter cut fashioned by the producers (including Woo) to keep the length and ‘all that unfamiliar cultural material’ to a minimum, and leaving the big battle scenes as highlights…
And so begins another year
Rather than dole out a best-of list of this and that, I thought I’d use the holiday time to finish up a number of reviews that should’ve been done with ages ago, and start work on some peripheral projects that have been in the planning stages for some time…
2009 Golden Globe Awards Nominees
Nominees for the precursor to the Oscars – The Golden Globe Awards – were earlier this week, and while the organization with the murky history and credibility still mushes together Best Performances for actors and actresses from TV and film in singular categories (see end), this high-profile wave of titles will probably help boost the profiles of known, missed, and unknown films for consumers…
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