Soundtrack Review: The Road (2010)

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Movie Soundtrack Review: This is a review of the motion picture score The Road by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis.

“It certainly does a number on me emotionally and intellectually”

The world has ended… in America at least, as a man and his son walk the desolated wastelands looking for food and shelter. It’s another post-apocalyptic tale of hardship and the struggle to survive. Directed by John Hillcoat and starring Viggo Mortensen, Robert Duvall and Guy Pearce, it’s an interesting if very dark tale of what could happen. The story is based on the Pulitzer winning book The Road by Cormack McCarthy. It seems to have been well received all round and the music is provided by the critics’ favorites Nick Cave & Warren Ellis.

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Original Score Nominees for the 82nd Academy Awards

One surprise at this year’s Oscar nominations for best score: The Hurt Locker by Marco Beltrami & Buck Sanders. The rest were no-brainers, although I wouldn’t mind seeing some more surprises. Here are the nominees in full:

Music (Original Score)

• “Avatar” James Horner
• “Fantastic Mr. Fox” Alexandre Desplat
• “The Hurt Locker” Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders
• “Sherlock Holmes” Hans Zimmer
• “Up” Michael Giacchino

Who is your favorite and why?

Soundtrack Review: Armored (2010)

Movie Soundtrack Review: This is a review of the motion picture score Armored by John Murphy.

“I’m on the fence here, but I’ll give Murphy the benefit of the doubt”

Armored is a movie about a group of people who work for an armored truck company. There’s a new guard on the job and he’s got himself tangled in a real mess because a group of people at work want him to join them in stealing a truck containing $42 million. The plans goes bad pretty fast and soon it’s every man for himself. Directed by Nimród Antal and starring Matt Dillon, Jean Reno and Laurence Fishburne, this movie doesn’t look bad at all. There are interesting characters, even though the plot is pretty thin. John Murphy is the man to put it all together musically.

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Soundtrack Geek January Summary

Welcome to the first of 12 summaries I plan to write in 2010. I thought it would be nice with a summary post of each month that has passed to celebrate what we love the most: film music. Soundtrack Geek isn’t just Soundtrack Geek anymore, we now have Soundtrack Fans and also Soundtrack Geek Game Music. In addition we are on Facebook, Twitter, Friendfeed and a lot more places, but this will not be a summary of everything, that would probably be a 10.000 word post and you wouldn’t want that, trust me.
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Up Wins Best Score at the Grammy Awards

The unstoppable force that is UP won the Grammy Awards last night, who would have thought it? By the way, that was an attempt of irony. Michael Giacchino is three for three with already having won Critics Choice Awards and Golden Globe Awards earlier this year.

Here are the nominees in full:

* Up by Michael Giacchino
* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by Alexandre Desplat
* Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by Nicholas Hooper
* Milk by Danny Elfman
* Star Trek by Michael Giacchino

We congratulate Michael Giacchino yet again!

Source: Grammy.com