Sometimes a great score’s attachment to a commercial bomb means the score itself will quickly disappear into the void. Blonde presents a slight variant. Instead of box office poison, the film’s graphic portrayals of violence and abuse drew widespread repulsion. […]
In one of the last interviews of Season 3, composer and director Mark Jenkin joins The Film Scorer podcast! Mark recently released his experimental folk horror film Enys Men (Cornish for Stone Island) earlier this year, as well as his […]
December sees the end of 2022, and one of the biggest, most anticipated scores of the year – Avatar: The Way of Water, with longtime James Horner collaborator Simon Franglen stepping in to take over. Does Franglen succeed? Read on […]
After an extended hiatus, I’m back! And what better time to return than when the weather’s getting warmer, days are getting longer, and adult refreshments are flowing freer. If you’re anything like me—which, if you’re spending time on a website […]
Fresh off the back of scoring the smash hit Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, composer Daniel Pemberton (Enola Holmes 1 & 2, Steve Jobs) joins The Film Scorer Podcast! Not surprisingly, Daniel and I spend the majority of our interview talking […]
As season 3 of The Film Scorer podcast slowly comes to a close (only a few episodes left), Chad Cannon joins the show! Chad and I primarily talk about his latest score, which is for the documentary miniseries Algiers, America, […]
After a brief hiatus, The Film Scorer podcast returns with guest Nitin Sawhney! Nitin and I originally planned just on discussing his latest score, which is for the film What’s Love Got to Do with It? but coincidentally timed the […]
As with October, November saw the release of one widely award-nominated score (John Williams’ score for The Fabelmans), some of my favorite scores of the year (Nathan Johnson’s score for Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery and Reznor and Ross’s […]
Brian Tyler joins The Film Scorer Podcast, finishing up our unofficial “month of Tylers”! Brian is fresh off the back of scoring the global smash hit The Super Mario Bros. Movie, and we spend the bulk of our conversation discussing […]
Another year, another best-of list! Though, as you might be well aware by now, I don’t pretend to actually know what the “best” scores of 2022 were. Instead, this list is really of my favorite scores from last year, presented […]
Fresh off of scoring the critical and box office hit action film John Wick 4, Tyler Bates joins The Film Scorer Podcast! Unsurprisingly, Tyler and I spend a decent amount of time talking about his work on John Wick; not […]
One of the more exciting aspects of film music, to me, is when non-traditional musicians try their hand at scoring. By this I mean musicians with careers that predate and are independent of their forays into scoring. It brings a […]