Music Composed by Ennio Morricone
Rating: *** 1/2
Ennio Morricone may be the single great living film composer right now, with more masterpieces in his repertoire than anyone can seem to count. However, Morricone is also history’s single most prolific film composer, with 500 plus film scores to his name. It’s impossible to write that much material [...]
Rating: ****
Danny Elfman is a composer who is seemingly restless in his career. Even after cementing his position in the top tier of film composers, he doesn’t seem content to sit back and score movie after movie, cashing paycheck after paycheck. Instead he’s become a experimentalist, trying documentaries (Deep Sea 3D, Standard Operating [...]
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 Mark Isham
Rating: ***
La La Land Records has stepped up their game the past six months, breaking the bank to license three big action titles, Mark Mancina’s Bad Boys, David Arnold’s Godzilla (in complete form no less) and Mark Isham’s Point Break, perhaps the most interesting musically of the three. What makes [...]
