Last year’s Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey drew a pretty divisive reception, but my favorite part, Andrew Scott Bell’s score, rose above all the noise and discord. With Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 about to release, Andrew joins me on The […]
Tough-talking dirty cops, back-channel deals, bursts of bloody violence, and a wonky Mediterranean interpolation of Eric Satie’s “Gnossienne No. 1,” played on what might be a bouzouki. Nope, that combination doesn’t sound any less strange written out. It’s as impressive […]
The Oscars are tonight (March 10), marking the end of awards season. At this point, the winner of the best original score seems certain, but nothing ever is. At the very least, we can celebrate that score (Ludwig Göransson’s Oppenheimer), […]
Another year, another list of the ten “best” film scores, this time I’m running through 2023. These scores aren’t presented in any particular order – I intended to go alphabetically, but instead ended up going by vibes instead, wherever the […]
Composer Tom Schraeder joins me for my first-ever in-person interview. Tom and I broke the ice by chatting for about an hour in my kitchen before heading downstairs and hitting record, and I think the comfort really shows up here. […]