Soundtrack Review: The Life Before Her Eyes by James Horner (2008)
This is a review of the motion picture score for The Life Before Her Eyes by James Horner.
“The real fans can enjoy this for years to come, but it won’t be a bestseller which it truly deserves to be”
This is James Horner’s second offering this year. The first one was for the fantasy movie “The […]
Soundtrack Review: American Gangster by Marc Streitenfeld (2008)
This is a review of the motion picture score for American Gangster by Marc Streitenfeld. Release date: February 19th 2008.
Just to make it absolutely clear, this is not a review of the soundtrack, but the score to this great movie. Marc Streitenfeld is a fairly new composer, and before American Gangster, the only movie he […]
Soundtrack Review: The Eye (2008)
This is a review of the motion picture score for The Eye by Marco Beltrami. Release date: Unknown.
Tomorrow is of course the Academy Award and Marco Beltrami is nominated for Best Score with 3:10 to Yuma. February 1st this year The Eye had its premiere, and it wasn’t too successful. It is a remake of […]
Soundtrack Review: Surf’s Up by Mychael Danna (2008)
Let’s be honest, penguins have been waaay overused recently and this is another one of those animated movies featuring penguins, although surfing penguins. This is not a movie review however, but a review of the recently released score by Mychael Danna. I always expect these scores to animated movies to be a little cartoony (Beowulf […]
BAFTA and Grammy Award winners
BAFTA:
In the category Best Music, Christopher Gunning won the sought after award with La Vie En Rose in tough competition with Marc Streitenfeld for American Gangster, Dario Marianelli for Atonement, Alberto Iglesias for The Kite Runner and Jonny Greenwood for There Will Be Blood. Many expected Jonny Greenwood to win after he got snubbed at […]