Music Break: Favorite Themes from BATMAN Screen Adaptations
Happy Wednesday everyone! Inspired by the GOTHAM pilot on Monday night, I thought I’d do a Batman-themed Music Break today. Before I do that, here’s my two cents on the show: #GothamPremiere‘s not...
View ArticleEverybody’s Chattin’ and Music Break: John Wick Soundtrack
HAPPY [almost] FRIDAY!! I’m gonna combine this month’s Chattin’ post with Music Break as I missed it the past couple of weeks. I’m getting a bit of a blog fatigue lately and I’m behind on a bunch of...
View ArticleMusic Break: Beyond the Lights & Begin Again
This past week I saw two wonderful music-themed films and the soundtracks have been playing in my head since. So I figure why not feature both of them in one post since I’m planning to post a double...
View ArticleMusic Break: Top 10 Favorite Film Scores of 2014
I’m so behind on my year-end top ten lists, but hey, I think January is still a great time for those lists right? ;) I was listening to NPR two nights ago and caught host Robert Siegel interviewing...
View ArticleEverybody’s Chattin’ and Music Break featuring THE GUEST Soundtrack
It’s already three weeks into January and I just realize I haven’t done a Community Links nor a Music Break post. So why not combine the two again, right? Having just seen The Guest, I knew I had to do...
View ArticleMusic Break: Ten Favorite Oscar-Winning Film Scores
The Oscars is just a week away, folks! Well, a week ago, as I was listening to 99.5 Classical MPR they were playing my favorite score from Titanic and I knew I had to make a post of it. For this post...
View ArticleMusic Break: Disney’s Animated Classic CINDERELLA (1950)
One of the screenings I’ll be going to later this week is the live-action adaptation of Cinderella. Now, I mentioned in this post that having grown up watching all those Disney Princess movies,...
View ArticleMusic Break: Five favorite scores from sci-fi movies about robots
As Ted just reviewed Chappie this weekend, he mentioned that the only thing he liked in the movie was Hans Zimmer‘s score. So it made me think of other robot movies that have great, memorable...
View ArticleEverybody’s Chattin’ and Music Break: Awesome songs from P.S. I Love You
Happy Wednesday all! March almost ran away from me again and I just realized I haven’t done a community post yet this month. Well, did you do anything fun on St. Paddy’s Day? Or should I say, have you...
View ArticleMusic Break: Not Another Happy Ending (2012)
I’ve been wanting to do this post for over a month now. In fact, if I had my way I’d just be blogging about this movie and Stanley Weber until my fingers bleed. But that’s what Tumblr is for ;) Ok so...
View ArticleMusic Break: Jurassic Park Soundtrack (1993)
Well, I saw Jurassic World last night. It was one of my most-anticipated movies of the year and one of the most evocative thing to me is STILL John Williams’ score. It’s one of my top 10 favorite...
View ArticleMusic Break: Top 10 Favorite Scores by James Horner
On Monday night I heard that Mr. James Horner was unaccounted for when a plane registered to him crashed in St. Barbara, CA, I prayed he’d turn out ok. I started listening to his music all night long...
View ArticleMusic Break: Top 5 Fave Soundtracks from Henry Jackman
I had been listening to X-Men: First Class during my workout lately, one of my favorite scores of the past few years. Henry Jackman was a protégé of one of my favorite composers, Hans Zimmer, and he’s...
View ArticleMusic Break: Pride & Prejudice + fave scores from Dario Marianelli
I don’t normally do a Music Break post on the weekends but I’ve been listening to the 2005 Pride & Prejudice score lately so I figure it’s as good a time as any. A little bit about the composer…...
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: A Funny Thing Happened On My Way Through The ’60s!
Greetings all and sundry! Having enjoyed a few recent get-togethers with family and friends before the murderous traffic of the Fourth of July weekend around the nation’s capitol. Topics of discussion...
View ArticleMusic Break: Far From The Madding Crowd (2015)
I’m in the romantic period drama mood this week as I’ve been listening to the beautiful scores for Pride & Prejudice, Belle (one of my top 10 scores of 2014)… and this one. Though I wasn’t as...
View ArticleMusic Break: The Martian’s DISCO Classics
One of the things I thoroughly enjoyed about The Martian was the lighthearted tone of the film, despite the obviously dire subject matter of someone being stuck in Mars. And one of the funniest bits in...
View ArticleEverybody’s Chattin + Music Break: Moulin Rouge’s YOUR SONG
Happy Wednesday all! Boy I felt like I’ve worked five days already the way my life’s been going… SO. MUCH. TO. DO. I do enjoy all the Twin Cities Film Fest festivities though, I’ve talked to so many...
View ArticleEverybody’s Chattin + Trailer Spotlight: Finding Dory
Happy Midweek all! [just three more days until Friday] I’ve been thinking of taking a brief blogging break after the whirlwind film festivities of TCFF at the end of October. Well, I figure I should do...
View ArticleMusic Break: Pride & Prejudice + fave scores from Dario Marianelli
I don’t normally do a Music Break post on the weekends but I’ve been listening to the 2005 Pride & Prejudice score lately so I figure it’s as good a time as any. A little bit about the composer…...
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