Music Composed by
Rating: **** 1/2

Danny Elfman’s songs and score for Charlie and The Chocolate Factory marks his eleventh collaboration with director Tim Burton. Elfman’s work for Burton is widely regarded as his best, with the composer writing three classic scores — Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, Beetlejuice and Batman — in the ’80s alone, before proceeding to […]

Music Composed by Mark Isham
Rating: *** 1/2

While Crash received a widespread theatrical release, it was clearly made in the image of likeminded independent dramas like Magnolia and 21 Grams, where the lives of various desperate and emotionally burned-out strangers intersect in sometimes violent and sometimes redeeming ways. As I lamented in my review of Nathan […]

Music Composed by Jerry Goldsmith
Rating: ****

One inevitable result of Goldsmith’s passing last year has been the fanatical quest of nearly every film music label to dig up every note the man wrote in the span of his 40-plus year career. It would be tempting to suggest that we’re scraping the barrel rather dry, but […]