Music Composed by Alan Silvestri
Rating: ***

From the director/screenwriter of Jack Frost (no, not the one with Micheal Keaton, the other one, about a menacing snowman terrorizing nubile babes) comes Identity, a serial killer thriller that, despite a few flashes of gore and a few decent twists, fails to scare. Scored by action-specialist Alan Silvestri, Identity [...]

Music Composed by Danny Elfman
Rating: ****

Even before anyone had heard a note of it, Danny Elfman’s score for Hulk was mired in controversy. Late in post-production, Mychael Danna, who had been hired to score the film, was relieved of his duties, and Elfman, super–scorer that he is, was hired to lend musical expression to Ang [...]

Music Composed by Jesper Kyd
Rating: ***

Everyone remembers the Mario Brothers theme, but, until recently, the only music in video games was cheap midi file, not-worth-commenting-on electronics. Once the market for video games expanded, so did the production budgets. Games such as Clancy’s Rainbow Six and the Final Fantasy franchise began to introduce more thematic and [...]

Music Composed by Bernard Herrmann
Rating: ****

Bernard Herrmann has frequently been referred to as the finest film composer in the history of the cinema, a title that makes criticizing anything the man wrote a dangerous game. It makes one hesitant to pick up his lesser-known works, for fear that the heaps of praise that come in [...]

Music Composed by Richard Band
Rating: *** 1/2

From Beyond is a fairly kinky horror picture from the mid-1980s that I saw when I was probably too young. The mass proliferation of home video meant that a kid interested in the horror genre was only a quick bike ride away from R-rated thrills. Despite the kink, From [...]

Music Composed by Jesper Kyd
Rating: ** 1/2

From the makers of Hitman 2: Silent Assassin comes a new game set in an alternate future, Freedom Fighters. Also returning is composer Jesper Kyd. And once again, Kyd brings new elements to the world of game music scoring. Freedom Fighters throws gamers into a post-Cold War setting… with [...]

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

Sometimes it’s the most unlikely composer assignments that result in the most interesting scores. Perhaps not as strange as Marc Shaiman scoring a Jerry Bruckheimer production, Thomas Newman takes over for cousin Randy for Pixar’s digital box office bonanza about fish with personality. Finding Nemo is sure to give [...]

Music Composed by Erik Lundborg
Rating: ***

When the inevitable decision was made to make a video game based on the popular The Matrix franchise, Don Davis was surprisingly going to be involved in the music production. Unlike most video games based on movies, the films’ creators, Larry and Andy Wachowski, had a lot of input into [...]

Music Composed by Maurice Jaubert
Rating: ****

In their ongoing work of releasing the music of Georges Delerue, Disques Cinemusique has thrown a little twist into the mix. This time, instead of releasing a new Delerue score, the label has released a CD of Delerue conducting the work of early French film composer Maurice Jaubert. The music [...]

Music Composed by John Harrison
Rating: ***

Somehow in that wacky decade of the 1980s, I wasn’t allowed to watch The A-Team on television, but with the booming home video market, my family sat down to watch Creepshow, where unlike The A-Team, corpses ripped heads off bodies and made them into birthday cakes, water-logged zombies carried out [...]