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Keegan DeWitt’s ‘Queen of Earth’ score is the sound of unsettling
‘Queen of Earth’s’ tragedies are cyclical, with roots tortuously unearthed by Keegan DeWitt’s steely textures. This is a sonic rediscovery of personal truths — ones perhaps best left buried. More
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‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E’ could learn a thing or two from ‘Rogue Nation’s’ nostalgic score
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation Joe Kraemer Paramount Pictures The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Daniel Pemberton WaterTower Music In his score for Kingsman: The Secret Service, Henry Jackman wants you to know he’s a James Bond fan. He just doesn’t want to tell you. Monte Norman’s iconic guitar riff pops in and out of his score, and […] More
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Repetition and degradation in the rhythms of ‘Whiplash’ and ‘Birdman’
Whiplash Justin Hurwitz Varese Sarabande Birdman Antonio Sanchez Milan Records “I’d rather die drunk, broke at 34 and have people at a dinner table talk about me than live to be rich and sober at 90 and nobody remembered who I was.” That’s how jazz drumming prodigy Andrew Neyman (Miles Teller) sums up art and, […] More
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Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s ‘Gone Girl’ serves its Midwestern claustrophobia chilled
Gone Girl Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross Columbia Back in 2010, David Fincher reaching out to the frontman from Nine Inch Nails felt like a 90s reunion, a fan casting list straight out of BuzzFeed’s nostalgia machine. In hindsight, Trent Reznor and longtime collaborator Atticus Ross’s score for The Social Network was something far more dour than […] More
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Apart from its color palette, ‘The Giver’s’ only grey area is in Marco Beltrami’s music
The Giver Marco Beltrami Sony Classical For how many years has Hollywood endured the YA novel onslaught? Five? Ten? When was Twilight? It’s strange to think of The Giver as merely the latest in a string of adapted young adult fiction given that its source material, Lois Lowry’s 1993 bestseller, precedes the publication dates of Divergent, City […] More
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Great responsibility begets great abuse of power in Hans Zimmer and The Magnificent Six’s ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Hans Zimmer and The Magnificent Six Columbia, Madison Gate “My name is Richard Parker. I have no idea what’s going on.” The cryptic video message from Peter’s dad, a storyline first teased in The Amazing Spider-Man, continues in the sequel to Sony’s reboot of its cash cow franchise. Of course, Papa […] More
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Something borrowed, something less than new in Alexandre Desplat’s ‘The Monuments Men’
The Monuments Men Alexandre Desplat Masterworks How do we make the familiar feel new again? Or to pose that same question to a cynical studio executive, how do we sell audiences more of the same? It’s no industry secret that audiences seem more likely to turn up for sequels to established properties, remakes, and recognizable […] More
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SDCC 2013: Composers Discuss the Music Behind Your Favorite TV Shows
ComicCon offers all kinds of experiences for attendees. You can stay completely in the world of film or immerse yourself in comics or even spend the weekend exploring tutorials and self-help panels. This year, due to a number of factors and in a pleasant surprise, my Con ended up being very music-heavy. I had the […] More
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Iconography in Scoring: The Music of the Western
From its very beginnings as a genre, Western film has trafficked in the iconic, in the larger-than-life imagery of the tall tale and the never-ending, expansive wilderness that forms the crucial backbone to these stories. More than perhaps any other genre, Westerns deal in types, with their characters standing in for the Other, the Immigrant, […] More
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‘Frankenweenie’ score feels like a composition that Elfman has always wanted to do
Resurrection is germane not only to the story of Frankenweenie but also Tim Burton’s career as an endearing cinematic oddball. With his latest foray into stop-motion animation, Burton has revisited the story that started his career, showing more focus and care than we’ve seen from the man in years. But what’s even more special about […] More
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This Week in Soundtracks – April 17, 2012, includes ‘Treme, Season 2’
A review of soundtracks and scores released the week of April 17, 2012. Marley – Original Soundtrack by Bob Marley & the Wailers Marley is a new documentary that chronicles the life of the man who brought Reggae to the world, Bob Marley. This two-disc soundtrack is a companion piece to the film. It is essentially […] More
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This Week in Soundtracks – April 10, 2012, includes ‘Damsels in Distress’
A review of soundtracks and scores released the week of April 10, 2012. Think Like a Man: Music From & Inspired By the Film – Various Artists Think Like a Man is a comedy based on the book Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man by Steve Harvey. The film follows four couples as […] More
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