Rating: **

I’m going to start by confessing that I actually do have a partial soft spot for Gregson-Williams’ earlier score The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. No, I wasn’t big on the dated new age/world music passages, and no, I couldn’t stand the obnoxious and relentless Media Ventures-infected action cues, [...]

Music Composed by Mychael Danna
Rating: ****

Michael Danna is one of those composers whose occasional presence in mainstream Hollywood always seems like a happy accident, as though art is sneaking in through the back door while commerce’s back is turned. In a world where even our best composers are forced into cookie-cutter templates, it never [...]

Music Composed by Philip Glass
Rating: ****

There was a time when a new film score from Philip Glass, one of the most significant concert composers of the past 50 years, was a rare and momentous occasion. But in the past couple of years, for some reason, Glass has grown quite prolific in his writing for film, [...]

Music Composed by William T. Stromberg and John Morgan
Rating: ****

Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie is a documentary directed by former special-effects specialist Peter Kuran that uses previously classified archival footage of nuclear tests and experiments to present a running history of the atomic bomb. While I have not seen the film, the liner [...]

Music Composed by Danny Elfman
Rating: ****

He’s back!! Danny Elfman, that is. I’ll be up-front with you. From the instant I heard that swirling arppeggiation in the strings opening of the main titles of Spider-Man, I was hooked on Elfman’s music for the film, and to this day, I still don’t see how people could not [...]