Intrada presents one of Jerry Goldsmith’s last unreleased scores from the 1980s, scored during one of his many career high points, and marking the first Walt Disney album Intrada has released since the earlier releases of Night Crossing, Honey I Blew up the Kids, and Homeward Bound some years ago. The 1985 Touchstone film, Baby: [...]

Music Composed by Danny Elfman
Rating: ****

He’s back!! Danny Elfman, that is. I’ll be up-front with you. From the instant I heard that swirling arppeggiation in the strings opening of the main titles of Spider-Man, I was hooked on Elfman’s music for the film, and to this day, I still don’t see how people could not [...]

Music Composed by Edward Shearmur
Rating: ****

The first feature length motion picture to be filmed entirely in front of blue screen, Sky Captain is a great piece of eye candy. Every ten year old boy’s fantasy of fighting gigantic robots, flying through the canyons of the New York City, underwater battles, fighting off dinosaurs, and being [...]

Music Composed by Thomas Newman
Rating: *** 1/2

The bigger the movie it seems, the bigger the anticipation of it’s score. Yet Thomas Newman’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, one of the Christmas season’s biggest blockbuster scores, written for a film lacking in explosions, tight scuba suits on bossomy babes and hair-plugged action stars, failed to generate [...]

Music Composed by Michael Giacchino
Rating: ****

Michael Giacchino’s current World War II video game score is very similar in tone and scope to Christopher Lennertz’s Medal of Honor: Rising Sun. Both use large orchestra’s for an impressive bold, brassy militaristic feel to the music. Both also brought their main thematic material into the entire score instead [...]

Music Composed by Jeff Danna
Rating: ****

Jeff Danna’s Resident Evil: Apocalypse starts so strong that you’re sure it can’t hold up much longer. With the first three tracks, Danna holds a clinic on how to write loud, no choke-holds-barred film music. “My Name Is Alice” sets the stage with breathy electronics and a reverberated and processed [...]

Music Composed by John Powell
Rating: ****

Over the past couple of years, John Powell has emerged as one of film music’s top talents. Right now he’s one of the most prolific composers working in Hollywood, and he’s been steadily building up an impressive list of directors to add to his references. Unfortunately, many of these collaborations [...]

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

Speculating on who would end up scoring Mel Gibson’s The Passion of The Christ, admittedly, John Debney was lower on the list. This was mainly due to the fact that his normal repertoire was comedy, with an action adventure film every now and again. But I was forgetting some [...]

Music Composed by Brian Tyler
Rating: *** 1/2

I must confess that when I learned that Brian Tyler was attached to Paparazzi several months ago, I was something less than thrilled. This Mel Gibson-produced B-grade revenge exercise about a Hollywood action star who decides to fight back when paparazzi invade his private life (Gibson seems to be [...]

Music Composed by Mark Isham
Rating: ***

La La Land Records has stepped up their game the past six months, breaking the bank to license three big action titles, Mark Mancina’s Bad Boys, David Arnold’s Godzilla (in complete form no less) and Mark Isham’s Point Break, perhaps the most interesting musically of the three. What makes [...]