Critic’s Choice: Top 73 Film and TV Scores of 2009

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Like last year, I have been checking up on my colleagues around the world wide web in [...]


Top 15 Scores Of 2009

2009 was a year of one-night stands. It’s great when you are doing it, listening to the scores, but in the morning it’s all awkward and you leave with a short memory of greatness that doesn’t last. Sometimes you come back, but it doesn’t stick with you. I was listening to scores from previous years [...]


Soundtrack Review: Amelia (2009)

Movie Soundtrack Review: This is a review of the motion picture score Amelia by Gabriel Yared.
“There’s opportunities missed here, big ones”
Amelia is the story of the courageous woman who attempted to fly around the world, but sadly and strangely, disappeared over the pacific ocean. Directed by Mira Nair and starring Hilary Swank, Richard Gere and [...]


Soundtrack Review: Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)

Movie Soundtrack Review: This is a review of the motion picture score Ghosts of Girlfriends Past by Rolfe Kent.
“Rolfe Kent has produced a fine score… that no one will remember.”
Like I announced earlier, Rolfe Kent had a couple of releases this month and about bloody time! The two comedies 17 Again and Ghosts of Girlfriends [...]


Soundtrack Review: Agora (2009)

Movie Soundtrack Review: This is a review of the motion picture score Agora by Dario Marianelli.
“It’s just what I expected and the stronger material here far outweighs the mediocre stuff.”
Remember Dario Marianelli? Sure you do! He won that Oscar for best score last year with Atonement. He is not the most prolific of composers [...]