Rating: ***

Call Of Duty starts off with it’s main theme, a frantic, militaristic motif on the strings, setting the tone for the whole score. Unlike Giacchino’s popular scores for the Medal of Honor game series, the composer takes a decidedly less melodic and patriotic approach for his latest war-scape game. For Call of Duty, his [...]

Music Composed by Nathan Barr
Rating: ** 1/2

Horror is hot these days, with a slew of genre films hitting screens this fall. Among the crop of this resurgence in guts and grue is Cabin Fever, the overhyped return to the “glory days” of ’70s grindhouse cinema. Allegedly attempting to evoke the spirit of dark tales like [...]

Music Composed by Phil Collins & Mark Mancina
Rating: ***

Walt Disney’s feature animation has taken several it’s fair share of lumps the past few years. With their latest big-ticket animated films having melted at the box office, the Mouse House takes another stab at the family film-goer demographic with Brother Bear, a focus-group-friendly stew of elements [...]

Music Composed by Danny Elfman
Rating: **** 1/2

At this point, I don’t think it would be hyperbole to claim that the director-composer relationship between Tim Burton and Danny Elfman stands as one of the most significant in recent cinema history. The two have worked on more than 10 films, and at their peak with the bittersweet [...]

Rating: ****

The current state of film music is in flux. Evil has a foothold. The power of the cosmos flows through keyboards churning out reheated action riffs. It is a time where melody can be reduced to two notes. We need a hero, people. A man to ascend from the [...]

Film Score Monthly announced two new special releases: Shaft Anthology, featuring the unheard original score by the late music legend Isaac Hayes and The MGM Soundtrack Treasury, with 20 scores previously unavailable on CD.
The Shaft Anthology is one bad mother—-er, with 3-discs, featuring Isaac Hayes’ Shaft, Shaft’s Big Score! (music and lyrics by Gordon Parks, [...]

Rating: ***

There are few more polarizing personalities in modern film music than Hans Zimmer. Love him or hate him, his wake of devastation or delight never goes unnoticed by the fandom. It was no different, way back in 2005 (cue waterfall effect) when Hans handled, with help from James Newton Howard, Batman Begins, [...]

Music from the 21st Century: Thunderbirds – Composed by Barry Gray
From the Television Shows and Films of Gerry Anderson
Saturday, November 8th, 2008. An Evening Charity Event in Aid of The Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, London. The Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Francois Evans with Guest of Honor [...]

From Tadlow Music comes Miklos Rosza’s El Cid, their follow-up to their critically acclaimed (so says us) re-recording of Rosza’s The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. El Cid, a bible epic released in 1961, starred the late Charlton Heston.
El Cid, available online and from specialty soundtrack retailers on September 1st, 2008, promises to be [...]