Category: Playlist
Sample The Score For ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
Any fans of the Academy Award winning score to the Social Network by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross might have interest in getting a sneak peak of their latest collaboration with director David Fincher. They’ve posted new photos for The … [Read the Rest]
Andrew Bird, OK Go, My Morning Jacket and more Featured In ‘The Muppets’ Tribute Album
Recently we’ve been posting the Track of the Day, showcasing some of our favourite music. If you’ve been keeping up, you now know we don’t necessarily listen to mainstream fare. The reason I bring this up is because now … [Read the Rest]
Alienated Wonder and Corrupt Suspicion: The Hanna Score
As effortless as the hint of steam slowly rising from Hanna’s gutted beast, the Chemical Brothers’ score for Hanna combines a childlike wanderlust with a pulsating adrenaline that sets the tone for the themes of the film. Overtly, Hanna is … [Read the Rest]
‘Red Riding Hood’ Soundtrack: An Echoed Triumph of Gothic Perversion
Catherine Hardwicke is in the interesting position of trying to make her films evolve within her respective niche while ultimately being defined by another–– Twilight. Lining up all of Hardwicke’s films––Thirteen, Lords of Dogtown, The Nativity Story, Twilight, and now Red … [Read the Rest]
‘Norwegian Wood’ Soundtrack: Evocative Sorrow and Pure Sex
Norwegian Wood is the film adaptation of the highly praised and successful novel of the same name by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. Faithful to the novel, the film explores the similar themes and human emotions of alienation, loneliness, and nostalgia. … [Read the Rest]
‘Blue Valentine’ Soundtrack: Haunted by Ghosts of the city and the past
The news of indie favourites Grizzly Bear contributing an all-original soundtrack for the intense romantic drama Blue Valentine has been circulating on the internets for quite sometime now. Bated breaths were held, waiting for the new material to surface accompanied … [Read the Rest]
“The King’s Speech” Score Review
Another multi-award nominated film, more specifically a Golden Globe Award and Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score, The King’s Speech score is noticeably absent from another list—my Best Scores List, and with good reason: I have not been able … [Read the Rest]
Burlesque Soundtrack: Bob Fosse meets Christina Aguilera
The Golden Globes are now in the past, but the nominees, winners, fashion and controversies all still linger on, dissected in depth and debated obsessively. Among the list of winners is Burlesque’s “You Haven’t Seen the Last of Me,” recipient … [Read the Rest]
Sound Upon Sound: The Conversation
Undertones: Volume 11 Having the misfortune of being dwarfed by the releases of the critical and commercial giants, The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather II (1974), The Conversation (1974) stands as somewhat of an under-appreciated gem in the Francis Ford … [Read the Rest]
True Grit Score: The Academy May Not Love You But I Do
True Grit is a wonderfully executed work of love, admiration and respect by the Coen brothers. It’s singular in genre—it is a complete and true western—which may seem odd at first because the Coens are masters of mixing the domains … [Read the Rest]
Best Movie Scores of 2010
Scores are different then soundtracks for obvious reasons but mostly because it is a personal compilation of instrumental music built around a movie. There is no past with the songs, just present and just designed for that movie. This year … [Read the Rest]
Best Soundtracks of 2010
The best soundtracks of 2010 are somewhat varied and random. Not always does a great film produce great music and sometimes a horrible film can have decent music, there is no pattern. Thus, I have made my own very subjective … [Read the Rest]
The ‘Shortbus’ Soundtrack
James Mitchell’s Shortbus was the mark of controversy in 2009, what with its real sex scenes, the potential firing of its star Sook Yin Lee by the CBC and its classification by some as ‘pornographic’. What the movie is, is … [Read the Rest]
Hedwig and the Angry Inch Soundtrack
With the plot surrounding an east German transgender rock musician in the 1980’s who undergoes a botched reassignment surgery leaving her with an ‘angry inch’ all so she can escape communist Germany with her new husband, the music can be … [Read the Rest]
‘It’s Kind of a Funny Story’ Soundtrack Review
Based on the 2006 novel of the same name by Ned Vizzini, It’s Kind Of a Funny Story very much uses the medium of an adult psychiatric wing to explore the nuances and intricacies involved within human relationships. The story … [Read the Rest]
