Intrada Announces:
The Driver/The Star ChamberComposed and Conducted by Michael SmallIntrada Special Collection Volume 33
Intrada is proud to present another Special Collection volume dedicated to the music of Michael Small. Following Intrada’s recent release of his score to Black Widow are two more thrillers from the vaults of 20th Century Fox.
The Star Chamber (1983), written and [...]

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 [...]

Here’s more Marco Beltrami than you can shake a sacrificial dagger at…
The OmenRemakes are becoming the bane of Hollywood these days. One after another after another seems to be coming out of the studio system. Rarely is the re-make ever really better than the original film, yet they mostly bring in high box office numbers [...]

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 [...]

Music Composed by Marco Beltrami
Rating: ***

Vampires. Marco Beltrami has no lack of experience scoring films with vampires, what with Dracula 2000 and Blade II under his belt (though, none of them had Kate Beckinsale in skin-tight leather to provide inspiration!). Beyond vampire films, though, Beltrami seems to have been almost typecast as a horror/action horror [...]