Today I’m joined by Electric Youth! Well, one half of the electronic/synth pop duo – Austin Garrick – without his co-member Bronwyn Griffin. Their latest project is the score for North of Normal, a true coming-of-age drama that jumps between […]
Carlos Rafael Rivera (The Queen’s Gambit, Hacks) is one of the few composers my mom has asked me about, so I’m extra excited to have him join the show! Carlos’s latest project is Department Q, his fourth series with writer-director […]
What a surreal moment – getting to chat with Thomas Newman and Julia Newman! Whether you’re a big film music fan or a casual film goer, I’ll guess that you’re familiar with Tom, having been nominated for fifteen Academy Awards […]
These are likely two truths about Harmony Korine’s Baby Invasion: (1) effectively no one saw the film, and (2) Burial’s score will never have an official release. While I can’t fault people for skipping out on the film (my own […]
The Mission Impossible franchise has been going strong for nearly thirty years, so it’s a bit surreal to see it apparently come to an end, with Tom Cruise hanging up the mantle as Ethan Hunt. To celebrate the final entry, […]
Picture this: a windswept desert stretching endlessly beneath a scorching sun. Amid the shimmering heat, two figures appear. One, guarded and stubborn, is an expert in the ways of the desert. The other, an outsider to this alien world, carries […]
Ahead of the premiere of the third and final season of Squid Game, I chat with the show’s composer, Jung Jae-Il (Parasite, Mickey 17). Obviously Jae-Il and I spend much of the conversation talking about Squid Game, including the palette, […]
Composers Leo Birenberg & Zach Robinson join The Film Scorer Podcast to round out the unofficial (and accidental) trilogy of duo interviews (joining Meg Remy & Grace Glowicki and Aaron May & David Ridley). Leo and Zach are fresh off […]
Recent films like Warfare and shows like Adolescence (Interview) and The Pitt have got me thinking about the effectiveness of a lack of music. When something is shown in real time (e.g. Adolescence) or has a visceral immediacy (e.g. Warfare), […]
For my second of three consecutive duo interviews, I chat with composers Aaron May and David Ridley. While they’ve been composing together for a while, their biggest project is also their most recent – the viral Netflix series Adolescence, from […]
By this point a lot of you have seen the news that Cristobal Tapia de Veer won’t be returning to score The White Lotus. Those of you that read Cristo’s interview with the New York Times also know that this […]
Although we’re now a couple months into 2025, I finally present you with the “best” film scores of 2024. As usual, there are some very mainstream scores in here that most observers would agree with and there are a few […]