At the end of January I “attended” Sundance to watch God’s Country, a drama/thriller starring Thandiwe Newton. Today DeAndre Allen-Toole, the film’s composer, joins the show! We chat about the film, including the challenges of making his feature scoring debut, palette […]
For the first time in several years (since The Knick), long time collaborators Cliff Martinez and Steven Soderbergh reunite with Soderbergh’s “technothriller” Kimi. The film follows Angela, who suffers from anxiety and agoraphobia and monitors transmissions from the controversial smart […]
Fall Out Boy vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter turned media composer Patrick Stump joins the show! While our intended focus was his score for the new Disney show Spidey And His Amazing Friends, we spend a significant time talking about his […]
Colin Stetson (Hereditary, Red Dead Redemption II) joins The Film Scorer podcast to talk about his brutal, unconventional score to Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Netflix’s new installment in the iconic horror series. Texas Chainsaw Massacre probably displays Colin at his most unrestrained, as […]
Colin Stetson’s score for 2022’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre begins with the rumblings of an ancient chainsaw awakening, followed by horrible metallic shrieks. Pain is coming, lots of it. Except, there is no chainsaw, there is no metal. Stetson primarily uses […]
I first met Roman Molino Dunn back in late 2020 as he finished up scoring the film Huracán for HBO Max (which we then discussed at length). Since then, he’s worked on films like The Card Counter and Red Rocket […]
After my first listen to Ariel Marx’s score to Shiva Baby, I felt sick. Its constant onslaught was almost too much to bear, with its short runtime saving me. Ordinarily, this would be the mark of truly terrible music. But […]
2021’s Dune has birthed three Hans Zimmer music releases: The Dune Sketchbook, Dune, and The Art and Soul of Dune. The Sketchbook consisted of a series of concepts, experimentations, and ideas that Zimmer and his team created for the film, […]
Back in 2020, Tom Schraeder made some waves (and certainly caught my attention) when he scored the horror film The Dark and the Wicked. Now, one of the film’s producers (writer-director Sonny Mallhi) has brought Tom back, as well as […]
It’s fair to question how a found footage film could even have a score. After all, doing so could threaten to break the typically tenuous suspension of disbelief they require. The most common workaround is using music diegetically (no matter […]
Composer (and fan of the show!) Michael Yezerski joins The Film Scorer podcast to give an in-depth look at his score for the new Starz series Blindspotting! Michael actually co-composed the score with avantgarde and renowned jazz trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire, […]
Excited to have composer Ariel Marx join the show! Ariel has been on a major upswing in 2021, scoring Shiva Baby (which I loved), Rebel Hearts, and the third episode of American Horror Stories. We talk about a few of these projects (as well […]