Category: Reviews
Soundtrack Review: Michael Giacchino – Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
(DISCLAIMER: This review uses the alternate pun-titles the composer offered in the CD-booklet as opposed to the boring standard-titles) In 2012 George Lucas sold his company, Lucasfilm, to the mightiest...
Review: John Williams & Steven Spielberg: The Ultimate Collection (2017)
John Williams and Steven Spielberg. Two names that will warm the hearts of any lover of film or music out there. But then you combine them and get a humongous...
Top 10 Scores of 2016 (Films, Video Games, TV Series)
Everybody loves themselves some Top 10s at the end of the year and like every year, 2016 had its up and downs, which is especially true for the film music...
Soundtrack Review: Alan Silvestri – Allied (2016)
(Note: The following soundtrack review is based on listening experience alone and not on how the music works to picture.) Alan Silvestri is one of the most underrepresented film music...
Soundtrack Review: James Newton Howard – Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)
(SPOILER ALERT: In order to sufficiently analyze the application of themes and the grounding narrative, this review contains major plot-details and -reveals for the movie ‘Fantastic Beasts And Where To...
Soundtrack Review: Jacob Shea, Jasha Klebe (Main Theme by Hans Zimmer) – Planet Earth II (2016)
(Note: The following soundtrack review is based on listening experience alone and not on how the music works to picture.) Nature documentaries have the habit of providing great opportunities for...
Soundtrack Review: John Robert Matz – Fossil Echo (2016)
If you want to get good music for films and video games, you’ll often need to think outside the box and give some things a try, that might not bear...
Soundtrack Review: Rupert Gregson-Williams – Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
(Note: The following soundtrack review is based on listening experience alone and not on how the music works to picture.) For a long time, Mel Gibson was nowhere to be...
Soundtrack Review: Austin Wintory – ABZÛ (2016)
(Note: The following soundtrack review is based on listening experience alone and not on how the music works ingame.) Imagine the most wonderful, ethereal parts of ‘Atlantis: The Lost Empire’,...
Soundtrack Review: Hans Zimmer – Inferno (2016)
(Note: The following soundtrack review is based on listening experience alone and not on how the music works to picture.) Whenever Hans Zimmer releases a new score, it is either...
Soundtrack Review: Danny Elfman – The Girl on the Train (2016)
Ambient Sound-Design. Something many filmmusic enthusiasts fear and may even hate. But what they actually mean is bad ambient sound-design. Tate Taylor’s The Girl On The Train is a thriller about a...
Short review of composer Jermaine Stegall’s Score for Fox Digital Studio’s ‘Mono’
20th Century Fox’s digital-first divison Fox Digital Studio released the teen comedy ‘Mono‘ this summer. While the trailer let’s it appear like your everyday teen comedy (which of course can...