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

There are only so many ways of saying that John Powell’s career is going up-up-up, that he gets better with each score, and that 2006 is his biggest year yet, so let’s just pretend that I already found a fresh way of making that observation and move on. The […]

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

The Da Vinci Code. Whether you’ve seen the movie, or read the book, or both, or neither, you’re sure to have heard something about it. Given that Ron Howard was chosen as director for the screen adaptation of the novel, the choice of Hans Zimmer to pen the film’s […]

Music Composed by John Powell
Rating: ****

It has taken three attempts by three different composers to get the music for the popular X-Men franchise right. Michael Kamen’s score to X-Men, with all due respect, made no sense to me. There were no big themes to grab hold of. The X-Men series, which crams as many superheroes […]