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Interviews

An Interview with Rihards Zalupe

February 23, 2025February 23, 2025

Rihards Zalupe joins The Film Scorer Podcast! Rihards’ latest score is for the Oscar and BAFTA nominated animated film Flow, which he co-composed with the film’s writer and director Gints Zilbalodis. As such, Rihards and I spend much of our […]

Best Of...

The Best Film Scores of April 2024

January 11, 2025January 24, 2025

Although the calendar says January 2025, our monthly score countdown is stuck in April 2024. Lucky for us, this happens to be home for some of the best scores of the year, including Nick Cave and Warren Ellis’s Back to […]

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Interviews

An Interview with Bryce Dessner

January 10, 2025January 10, 20253 Comments

In a quick 1-2 punch after talking with Daniel Blumberg (The Brutalist), Bryce Dessner (The National, The Revenant, The Two Popes) joins The Film Scorer podcast! Bryce released two scores last year, for the films Sing Sing and We Live […]

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An Interview with Daniel Blumberg

January 5, 2025January 5, 20252 Comments

Much to my dismay, The Brutalist is not an industrial grindcore band. Nonetheless, I feel compelled to talk about it. As such, composer Daniel Blumberg joins the show! It should be no surprise, then, that we spend much of our […]

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Best Of...

The Best Film Scores of March 2024

December 31, 2024December 30, 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 […]

1970s Reviews

The Great Okinawa Yakuza War (1976) – Kenjirô Hirose – Film Score Review

December 30, 2024December 30, 2024

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 […]

Interviews

An Interview with Donna McKevitt

December 22, 2024December 31, 2024

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” […]

Interviews

An Interview with The Angel

December 15, 2024December 22, 2024

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 […]

Interviews

An Interview with Wilbert Roget, II

November 24, 2024November 24, 2024

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 […]

1990s Reviews

Brainscan (1994) – George S. Clinton – Film Score Review

November 20, 2024November 20, 2024

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 […]

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An Interview with Kris Bowers

November 10, 2024November 24, 20242 Comments

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 […]

Interviews

An Interview with Amelia Warner

October 27, 2024October 27, 20242 Comments

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, […]

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