Audio: On the Score with Alan Menken
Film music journalist Daniel Schweiger interviews composer ALAN MENKEN, who now transforms a tale as old as time into the new, live action enchantment of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Read MoreFilm music journalist Daniel Schweiger interviews composer ALAN MENKEN, who now transforms a tale as old as time into the new, live action enchantment of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Read MoreA cello-driven composer powerfully evokes the tragic reality of “Cries from Syria”
Read MoreHearing ethnically satirical horror while breaking through with “Get Out”
Read MoreA composer finds an eerily beautiful, waltzing “Cure for Wellness.” Just don’t count the eels
Read MoreCasting a soaring, romantic spell for an earthbound starboy
Read MoreA composer of full-throttle genre action finally goes to ask Alice for the first time with the climactic “Resident Evil: The Final Chapter”
Read MoreA composer with a talent for furious action now unleashes the “Underworld” saga’s “Blood Wars”
Read MoreHearing the moving music of loss and fear when “A Monster Calls”
Read MoreMusically finding the right fit through August Wilson’s words as Denzel Washington stages “Fences” for the big screen
Read MoreJohann Johannsson’s “Arrival” heralds a year of impressive soundtracks The Best Scores of 2016
Read MoreFilm music journalist Daniel Schweiger interviews composer MARK MANCINA, Disney’s musical navigator for Africa’s “Tarzan” and Alaska’s “Brother Bear,” who now magically sets sail on the Polynesian seas of “Moana”
Read MoreCreating the classical songs of sadness that flow through “Manchester by the Sea”
Read MoreAlso worth picking up: FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF, FRIGHT NIGHT, HACKSAW RIDGE, LUKE CAGE, THE NIGHT OF, NOCTURNAL ANIMALS and many more!
Read MoreCalculating an action hero with a uniquely special set of musical skills for “The Accountant”
Read MoreFilm music journalist Daniel Schweiger interviews composer STEVE JABLONSKY, who battles the inferno of DEEPWATER HORIZON with a mesmerizing, suspenseful score of surviving an ocean hell on earth
Read MoreAlso worth picking up CUTTHROAT ISLAND, CHARLES FOX: SEASONS, GENIUS, PETE’S DRAGON, RAMBO, STRANGER THINGS and many more!
Read MoreTeaming with, then resurrecting James Horner for a final, furious round-up of western heroism to co-score “The Magnificent Seven”
Read MoreTwo band mates board Air Eastwood for “Sully’s” jazzily distinctive take on a disaster with a happy ending
Read MoreSlaying food isn’t musical kid’s stuff in “Sausage Party”
Read MoreAlso worth picking up CAFÉ SOCIETY, JESSICA JONES, THE LEGEND OF TARZAN, MADE IN FRANCE, NIGHTHAWKS, SENSORIA, VICTOR YOUNG AT PARAMOUNT and many more!
Read MoreFinding the Zen of nature versus nurture with “Captain Fantastic”
Read MoreA composer who continues to vote for The Purge on “Election Night”
Read MoreVocally re-animating a score for “Swiss Army Man”
Read MoreContinuing a twisted collaboration with Nicolas Winding Refn as they take a retro-groovy catwalk to hell with “The Neon Demon”
Read More’10 CLOVERFIELD LANE’ is the top soundtrack to own for May, 2016. Also worth picking up CHINATOWN, I AM WRATH, REVELATION, THE SHAWSHANK REDEMOPTION and many more!
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