imeem (that’s right, lower-case i) is now streaming the complete Where The Wild Things Are soundtrack, featuring original songs by Karen O (of the f’n brilliant Yeah Yeah Yeahs, here credited with “the Kids”). Crusty orchestral nerd enthusiasts might shriek in horror when sampling this completely enchanting, melodic guitar rock (not a single wind [...]

I received this e-mail earlier in August and, like Pee-Wee and snakes in a burning pet store, eventually got around to publishing it on Cinemusic. No, this has nothing to do with snakes. It has to do with some film music benefiting a good cause. I can’t say this music is going [...]

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While guzzling (light) beer and smashing potato chips into my face while I rock out to The Final Destination (in the interest of journalism), it’s interesting comparing Brian Tyler’s main titles (“The Final Destination”) with Shirley Walker’s for the first film (simply titled Final Destination). The FD film series truly has morphed into [...]

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For some reason I always forget about Laurence Rosenthal. I have a few of his CDs and they’re excellent, but I only seem to remember how good he is when I stumble across one of his albums out of the blue. Take Lala Land’s (sadly out of print) release of The Island of [...]

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Dragonball Evolution is a film that you’ve probably already forgotten based on a tv-show/videogame/toy/merchandising empire from Japan. I know it is as the show that’s occasionally on Cartoon Network late at night when I’m hoping for a rerun of Pinky and the Brain. I’m sure if I sat through an episode I’d [...]

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As near as I can tell, Red Riding is a British miniseries about Yorkshire serial killings in the ‘70s and ‘80s. It is definitely not a direct adaptation of a fairy tale about a little girl who gets eaten by a wolf. I checked. However, it does feature music from three [...]

Goldsmith fans rejoice! The Master’s synth-tacular cop/hooker classic, Rent-A-Cop (3000 copies, which means it’ll be around forever), starring the legendary screen duo Burt Reynolds and Liza Minelli, has been dusted off, poked and prodded by the good folks at Intrada Records. There’s lots of gun-holding in this picture, so the score has to [...]