The end is nigh…of summer, I mean. If you tuned in to part one of this series, you will have been introduced to a handful of scores picked by yours truly as the excitement of summer was just on the […]
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 […]
Although January may have gotten off to a slow start (spurred on largely by 2021 film scores that for some reason had delayed releases), February brings 2022 into high gear! Chief among these are Michael Giacchino’s The Batman, which will […]
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 […]
To do something a bit topical, I’ve compiled a list of the 10 best pandemic film scores of all time. However, the list is quite fluid with several of the scores on the final list able to swap positions on […]
In 2011, Cliff Martinez helped popularize the 80s synth and electropop revivalist subgenres through his work on Drive. While this remains his most popular work, Only God Forgives is perhaps his strongest score to date. It fuses elements from Drive, […]