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 [...]