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 Michael Giacchino
Rating: ****

Michael Giacchino’s current World War II video game score is very similar in tone and scope to Christopher Lennertz’s Medal of Honor: Rising Sun. Both use large orchestra’s for an impressive bold, brassy militaristic feel to the music. Both also brought their main thematic material into the entire score instead [...]

Music Composed by John Debney
Rating: **** 1/2

Speculating on who would end up scoring Mel Gibson’s The Passion of The Christ, admittedly, John Debney was lower on the list. This was mainly due to the fact that his normal repertoire was comedy, with an action adventure film every now and again. But I was forgetting some [...]

Music Composed by Michael Suby
Rating: **

The past couple years have seen a few classic horror/suspense scores drift through the theater including Brian Tyler’s Frailty, James Newton Howard’s Signs, and Hans Zimmer’s The Ring. The opening theme from Michael Suby’s The Butterfly Effect immediately calls to mind the gentle piano theme from Frailty with the addition [...]