Music Composed by James Newton Howard
Rating: ****

By now you’ve probably learned the twist of M. Night Shyamalan’s latest marketed-as-a-thriller, The Village. Audiences all over the world were shocked to learn that “The Village” was actually a microscopic community of Sea Monkeys floating in a half empty Coke can in downtown Detroit! That Shyamalan sure knows [...]

Music Composed by Alan Silvestri
Rating: *** 1/2

Who says vampire hunting has to be so… loud? Apparently Stephen Sommers and Alan Silvestri. Sommers new monster action/adventure flick, Van Helsing, stars Hugh Jackman as Bram Stoker’s vampire-hunter and all the other Universal movie monsters not used in Sommers’ The Mummy franchise. Silvestri, who knocked it out of [...]

Music Composed by Don Davis
Rating: ****

We haven’t heard enough from Don Davis since his last feature, The Matrix Revolutions rocked our universe. So it’s with much fanboy glee that Prometheus slipped The Unsaid in under the radar. The surprise here is that The Unsaid is a film released before The Matrix Revolutions and The Matrix [...]

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 James Horner
Rating: ** 1/2

If you’re talking summer movies and you just happen to be talking with a major film music geek, chances are the story behind the mega-buck tent pole picture Troy has less to do with Homer than it has to do with Horner. Anyone with access to one of the [...]

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 John Williams
Rating: ***

Steven Spielberg and John Williams have tackled many different genres together, from thriller (Jaws) to fantasy (Hook) to heavy drama (Schindler’s List). They worked together on a romance (Always) and straight out comedy (1941), but not a romantic comedy. So here, at last, is The Terminal – the story of [...]

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 [...]

Music Composed by Edward Shearmur
Rating: ****

The first feature length motion picture to be filmed entirely in front of blue screen, Sky Captain is a great piece of eye candy. Every ten year old boy’s fantasy of fighting gigantic robots, flying through the canyons of the New York City, underwater battles, fighting off dinosaurs, and being [...]

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

The bigger the movie it seems, the bigger the anticipation of it’s score. Yet Thomas Newman’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, one of the Christmas season’s biggest blockbuster scores, written for a film lacking in explosions, tight scuba suits on bossomy babes and hair-plugged action stars, failed to generate [...]