Specialty labels are releasing new albums of old scores like it’s going out of style (or maybe because the new stuff just isn’t as interesting?). Intrada recently announced a pair of David Newman oldies: Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey and his first score for director Danny DeVito, Throw Momma From The Train. Both limited [...]

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

Better or worse, we’ve reached the point where quite a few of the major composers working in Hollywood are graduates from Hans Zimmer’s Media Ventures/Remote Control composer factory. For most of them, that background tends to be a curse, a generic mode of writing that the best learn to [...]