Rating: **** 1/2

So I was walking down the street, carrying some Danny Elfman, and not looking where I was going. Coming at me from the opposite direction, another man was carrying some minimalism, also not looking where he was going. Of course we bumped into each other and, wouldn’t you know it, we got everything [...]

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Presenting acclaimed composer Bill Conti’s complete original score, performed by the Graunke Orchestra of Munich, to the 1987 feature film Masters of The Universe starring Dolph Lundgren, Frank Langella and Courtney Cox. This special 2CD set contains Bill Conti’s previously unreleased complete score, along with the full original album [...]

Outstanding Music Composition For A Series (Original Dramatic Score)
Family Guy – Ronald Neal Jones
House – Jon Ehrlich, Jason Derlatka
Little People, Big World – Joey Newman
Lost – Michael Giacchiano
Pushing Daisies – Jim Dooley
The Simpsons – Alf Clausen
Outstanding Music Composition For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special (Original Dramatic Score)
Bernard And Doris – Alex Wurman
The Company – [...]

The mighty music house Immediate Music has released an album of their bombastic trailer tunes this week. Now you too can own cues that helped sell Spider-Man 3 (“Lacrimosa Dominae”) to millions, or The Island (“Fides en lucius dei”) to absolutely no one. The tracks appear to have been slightly renamed, but are [...]

Rating: **** 1/2

There are a small handful of composers that I can count on to write something great every time they score a new movie. Like, five of them, tops. Thomas Newman is one of them. He wasn’t always. Back in the late 1990s, he was a very hit and miss composer for me and [...]