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

I’ll confess that Benjamin (street name, “Ben Jammin”) Frankel was not always a composer I had any particular fondness for. In the past few years, I’ve made multiple attempts to enjoy my copy of the compilation, Benjamin Frankel – Music for the Movies. Sadly, every new listen put me […]

Music Composed by Elmer Bernstein
Rating: ****

I was tempted to opening this review with a typical, “Bernstein wrote for a lot different movies, but if there’s one thing he was loved for best, it was Westerns,” but I stopped, because at the last minute I realized how asinine that sentence sounded. To start, the sentence was […]

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

In principle, I have always firmly believed that a film score can eschew a Western orchestra and still carry the dramatic depth and heart that cinema demands. In practice, I rarely find scores that support this theory – more often then not, non-orchestral film scores float like generic deadweight […]