The Best Film Scores of March 2024
Here we are, right at the end of 2024 and for some reason I’m only getting to the scores released in March. Will I ever catch up? Does it matter? Who knows, and while only time will tell, I have […]
The Great Okinawa Yakuza War (1976) – Kenjirô Hirose – Film Score Review
There must be a thousand Yakuza films floating around, largely forgotten and unseen (especially here in the US). Luckily, places like Tubi give you the chance to stumble upon these with pretty decent regularity (the same, I’ve realized, with jidaigeki/samurai […]
An Interview with Donna McKevitt
Composer Donna McKevitt joins The Film Scorer Podcast! Donna is someone that I’ve chatted to here and there over the last few years, so it was a treat having her on the show and finally getting the chance to “meet” […]
An Interview with The Angel
The Angel (Boiler Room, Kidulthood) joins The Film Scorer! Angel’s latest score is for the crime thriller Heist 88, which came out last year but her score only released last month. As such, we spend much of our conversation talking […]
An Interview with Wilbert Roget, II
In the latest episode of The Film Scorer podcast I’m joined by Wilbert Roget, II (Star Wars: Outlaws, Helldivers 2, Mortal Kombat). While Wilbert is best known for his work scoring video games, including recently receiving a Grammy nomination for […]
Brainscan (1994) – George S. Clinton – Film Score Review
I’ve started to become concerned, or perhaps a little worried, that there is a world of older film scores filled with great melodies and sounds that have never been formally released, leaving them almost hidden. While some smaller record labels […]
An Interview with Kris Bowers
Season 5 of The Film Scorer Podcast continues to pick up steam as Kris Bowers (Bridgerton, Green Book) joins the show! The Academy Award winner and nominee (who was just nominated for a Grammy for his score to The Color […]
An Interview with Amelia Warner
Season 5 of The Film Scorer Podcast is here! In the Season 5 premiere I chat with composer Amelia Warner. Amelia’s latest score is for the Disney sports biopic Young Woman and the Sea (starring Daisy Ridley), about Trudy Ederle, […]
Hands of Steel – Claudio Simonetti – Score Review
There’s a genre of 80s sci-fi/action movies that doesn’t really exist anymore: low budget, big ideas, shot on location (the dregs of our present filling in for the nightmare of the future), schlocky yet completely sincere. Think the films of […]
The Best Film Scores of February 2024
Last month I said that the year had gotten off to a relatively slow start with respect to film music (at least when talking about bigger-budget films). February is a different story. This month sees the release of one of […]
Run Lola Run – Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek, & Reinhold Heil – Score Review
For as big as techno is as a music genre, and for as long as it’s been in the mainstream, it’s been fairly underutilized in film scoring. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s 90s techno throwback score for Challengers may finally […]
The Best Film Scores of January 2024
We’re kicking off 2024 with several very under the radar scores – the year got off to a relatively quiet start, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t a number of interesting worthwhile scores released; you just have to look close […]