In the annals of murderous dolls and mannequins that span “Dead of Night” to “Magic,” “Dollie Dearest” and “Dead Silence” (and of course a little red-haired boy toy psychopath), there’s never been a friend to the end rivaling the technical sophistication, or smart social satire of “M3gan.” The latest acclaimed techno thriller to herald from […]
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A rising composer flies high with the airborne bond of “Devotion”
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If social media and the selfie desperation for recognition has made monsters of us all, then “Sissy” is the Norman Bates for a generation scarily obsessed with being golden gods for their thumbs up followers. For while she’s all smiley faces while dispensing advice to her emotion-of-the-second followers, the blog obsession of Sissy / Cecila […]
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Playing the not-so usual musical suspects as the composer investigates another seriocomic slaying at The Arconia with the second season of “Only Murders in the Building”
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Finding orgasmically ironic “Pleasure” in musically merging the sacred and the profane
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Crafting an insanely striking collision of musical multiverses for “Everything, Everywhere All at Once”
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For 42 years, the sound of live-action “Star Wars” was the sweeping, symphonic language of John Williams, old school music for a long time ago in a melodic galaxy far, far away. It was a template impressively followed by Michael Giacchino and John Powell on the spin-offs of “Rogue One” and “Solo,” but it took Ludwig […]
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Making the musically winning serves for the sister tennis icons brought up by “King Richard”
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Scoring down a retro-paranoia rabbit hole to find the source of a “Broadcast Signal Intrusion”
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A composer powerfully returns home to Justin Chon’s land of social relevancy for “Blue Bayou”
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Waving a poignant score for a father’s life of crime and a desperate daughter in Sean Penn’s “Flag Day”
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Musically painting for live, living pictures at the enduring Pageant of the Masters
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Taking a sweeping, girl power orchestral ride with “Spirit Untamed”
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A new scoring prince gets his Hollywood coronation by taking Zamunda travel arrangements to a vibrantly funny new musical future
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Of the new crop of composers to spring from an indie sensibility and all of the fertile, innovative ideas that come with it, perhaps no musician has captured the idea of what it is to find an outsider’s American measure of success than Emile Mosseri. Hailing from Egyptian roots, Mosseri has poetically captured themes of […]
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There’s often no pressure cooker like a recording studio where the clock is running, and the egos are flaring. Add to that the rage of racial injustice and the diva behavior of an ego that’s earned and it’s a session ready for an eruption. The tortuous, yet tuneful process of getting that song sung opens […]
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Putting hypnotic structure to criminal chaos with “Echo Boomers”
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Continuing to explore alien worlds and the nature of android parenting in “Raised by Wolves”
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Veering from the sonic insanity of “Unhinged” to the emotional apocalypse at “Greenland”
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A kick-ass double team has the bill come due again for a martial arts star who’s taking names
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Going inventively old and new school with “Hollywood” and “The Great” while finally catching “The Hunt’s” darkly satirical quarry
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Rhythmically scoring men of action with “Bloodshot” and “Spenser: Confidential”
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Scoring into the mouth of cosmic madness to conjure a Lovecraftian miasma for “Color out of Space”
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A composing team to beat puts pedal to the retro for “Ford v Ferrari”
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Finding the humor, horror and humanity with “Jojo Rabbit’s” surreal sunset for Hitler
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Having his merry way with heaven and hell for “Good Omens’” end of days
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HELLRAISER’s master of old school horror scoring gets transformed by being re-buried in a PET SEMATARY
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Bringing the heroic bands back together with “Star Trek: Discovery” and “The Umbrella Academy”
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A king of modern classical scoring continues his reign with “Mary, Queen of Scots”
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