Rating: ****

I’d never have predicted that simply writing a review for an Indiana Jones score would send me into an existential crisis, but it’s hard to review a soundtrack that everyone’s already purchased and formed an opinion on without wondering why you’re bothering. My usual formula – here are the themes, here are the word-a-day-calendar [...]

Music Composed by Ennio Morricone
Rating: *** 1/2

Ennio Morricone may be the single great living film composer right now, with more masterpieces in his repertoire than anyone can seem to count. However, Morricone is also history’s single most prolific film composer, with 500 plus film scores to his name. It’s impossible to write that much material [...]

Rating: ****

Danny Elfman is a composer who is seemingly restless in his career. Even after cementing his position in the top tier of film composers, he doesn’t seem content to sit back and score movie after movie, cashing paycheck after paycheck. Instead he’s become a experimentalist, trying documentaries (Deep Sea 3D, Standard Operating [...]

Danny Elfman does his own twist on straight action scoring with Wanted, the upcoming action film from Russian director Timur Bekmambetov (Nightwatch). A mix of insistent string writing, rollicking percussion, arching brass, and electric guitar, Wanted welcomes Elfman back to scoring summer blockbusters. Top off forty-five minutes of thrilling score with an original [...]

Varese Sarabande announced their latest round of club releases today at 3AM EST (12AM PST). Those that stayed up, bleary-eyed and continuously reloading the Varese website found the following titles will be available on June 30th:

Rating: **

I’m going to start by confessing that I actually do have a partial soft spot for Gregson-Williams’ earlier score The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. No, I wasn’t big on the dated new age/world music passages, and no, I couldn’t stand the obnoxious and relentless Media Ventures-infected action cues, [...]