To celebrate his first full-length tv series score, Gareth Coker joins The Film Scorer podcast! You video game fans in particular may know Gareth from his work scoring games like Ori, Ark, and Halo Infinite, but Gareth hasn’t stopped there. […]
I’ve been watching a lot of action movies lately, mostly ones released in 2023 and 2024, and one thing I’ve noticed (not surprisingly) is the scores. Specifically, I’m noticing the scores of more recent releases. It seems like the sonic […]
Five-time Grammy winner Mike Post joins The Film Scorer podcast! A lot of you will probably be familiar with Mike already, who boasts one of the most impressive tv resumes of all time. For those of you that aren’t, Mike’s […]
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 […]
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. […]
Composer Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch joins the show! Emilie’s latest score is for the film All of Us Strangers, a sort of romance-fantasy-supernatural film that I found absolutely moving. As such, we primarily talk about her score for that film, including talking about […]
The BAFTAs air on February 18th, and mark the second-to-last stop in awards seasons (with the Oscars seemingly still a ways away). The nominees are almost entirely made up of ones we’ve seen fill every other list all season, save […]
The Film Scorer Podcast is back from its season 4 mid-season break! To celebrate in this return, Sam Haft joins the show! As of now, Sam might be best known for being one-half of the duo The Living Tombstone, alongside […]
The Messiaen Modes. These Modes, particularly number 3, became the focal point of coverage about Mac Quayle’s score for Leave the World Behind, driving the sound of his score. The Wikipedia entry for these (“modes of limited transposition”) – which […]
A few days ago, Variety published an opinion piece titled “Why ‘May December’s’ Use of ‘The Go-Between’ Score During Viral Hot Dog Scene Is Problematic”. Given the specific use of “problematic” in media criticism, this immediately piqued my interest. Knowing […]