Barack Obama Loves Movie Scores

If you’re new here, you may like to get all my posts in your feed reader using my RSS feed or get all Soundtrack Geek posts by Email. Thanks for visiting!Did anyone see Barack Obama’s acceptance speech? After the speech the music from the movie “Remember The Titans” played, more specifically “Virginia”, a track I [...]


Soundtrack Review: The Dark Knight (2008)

This is a review of the motion picture score for The Dark Knight by Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard.

“The Joker will live forever through this score and The Dark Knight will remain the hero by everyone who loves movie scores”

What can you say, except: Yes it’s here! The most anticipated score of the year [...]


Soundtrack Review: The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian by Harry Gregson-Williams (2008)

This is a review of the motion picture score for The Chronicles of Narnia by Harry Gregson-Williams.
“It is like the first soundtrack grew up and realized there is a complicated dark world out there”

Well, aren’t you excited! So am I to be honest. I have been waiting for this for a long time and so [...]


Soundtrack Review: The Mission by Ennio Morricone (1986)

This is a review of the motion picture score for The Mission by Ennio Morricone.

Ennio Morricone, what can you say? What a legend he is. This Italian composer has been entertaining us with music since ca. 1959 and he is not finished yet. He is nearly at 500 movies now, that’s probably about 450 hours [...]


Soundtrack Review: Blade Runner 25th Anniversary by Vangelis (2007)

This is a review of the motion picture score for Blade Runner 25th Anniversary by Vangelis.

After about 10 releases of this score, bootlegs and official ones, the ultimate edition finally arrived in December 2007. I say ultimate edition, because it has 2 CD’s with the music from the movie, including some unreleased material and also [...]