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

It’s difficult to determine who the hell the epic mo-cap animated Beowulf was made for. Aging, expanding adult gamers lost in a fantasy world where Angelina Jolie’s digital dopelganger sports a tale and stiletto heels? Hyperactive ankle-biters bored by the Ice Age films? Apparently neither of [...]

Music Composed by James Newton Howard
Rating: *** 1/2

The Water Horse will probably not be remembered as one of James Newton Howard’s biggest hit films, nor his most popular score, but that’s more to do with his prodigious output then the quality of this particular effort. When you’ve recently written some of the best fantasy [...]

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

Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter is one of the few non-Christopher Lee Hammer vampire films that has actually attracted a large fan following. One might argue that it’s because it’s more imaginatively shot and staged then most of the 1970s Hammers (not the studio’s Golden Age by any means), [...]

Music Composed by Howard Shore
Rating: ****

David Cronenberg has evolved enormously from his earlier grotesque roots, though his basic fascination with human depravity has never changed. His Russian mafia drama Eastern Promises is plottier than most of his films, but once it moves past its socially conscious outrage turns into a character piece, it ranks [...]

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

It can’t be an easy thing to write the most-anticipated score of the year. Alexandre Desplat’s ascent in the American film-scoring scene over the last few years has largely featured him as a composer for dramatic features, a genre not known for the dynamism of its underscore. Despite this, [...]