Season three of The Film Scorer Podcast is finally here! Joining me is legendary musician and composer Cosey Fanni Tutti. Film music fans may not be quite as familiar with Cosey, who’s best known for being a founding member of […]
Men marks the third film collaboration between director Alex Garland and composing duo Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury. As with their prior projects, Ex Machina and Annihilation, it has a riveting, unorthodox score. The film begins with Harper (played by […]
Musical Nasties is a series of articles exploring the music of cinema’s most salacious fare. From video nasties of the ‘80s, to classic Italian gialli and schlock, to contemporary cult cinema, we aim to celebrate our favorite genre movies, their […]
It’s safe to say that Alex G’s score for We’re All Going to the World’s Fair is my favorite score release of the year. He brings a sense of inevitable melancholy to the film, a potentially inevitable dark fate. And […]
As far as this column is concerned, we’re now halfway through the year! At this point, it’s hard to say whether any clear standouts have shown themselves as the “best of the year,” but there have been a lot that […]
The very first notes of The Black Phone let us know that this won’t quite be your typical Mark Korven score. An ugly, noisy synth melody plays, backed by grating roars and shrieking noise, all while we watch a montage […]
With the season 3 premiere right around the corner, we’ve decided to drop an interview to tease your appetite. Dominic Lewis (Violent Night, The King’s Man) joins The Film Scorer to talk about his new score to the hit action film […]
Author’s note: For the purposes of this write up, I will be focusing on the film’s original score by Michael Abels and not the additional songs on the soundtrack (although they are great). This review is spoiler-free. After shocking audiences […]
At this point we’re well over halfway through the year (although my writeups haven’t kept up), and it’s been difficult to figure out my absolute favorites of the year so far. As the last few months have shown, there have […]
Musical Nasties is a series of articles exploring the music of cinema’s most salacious fare. From video nasties of the ‘80s, to classic Italian gialli and schlock, to contemporary cult cinema, we aim to celebrate our favorite genre movies, their […]
Howard Shore has cultivated two very distinct sides of his film scoring oeuvre. While the most well-known (and most beloved) belong to his brilliant orchestral works, such as his seminal score for The Lord of the Rings trilogy, he also […]
April was a tough write-up for me, solely because there were simply so many good scores to look at (as you’ll see when you scroll to the bottom of this article). From orchestral works like Hans Zimmer’s The Survivor or […]