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CD Review: INHERENT VICE soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER 05/24/2015
INHERENT VICE soundtrack | ©2014 Nonesuch Records

For much of his filmmaking career, Paul Thomas Anderson had used composer Jon Brion to convey his provocative cinematic approach, from the insane percussive assault of PUNCH DRUNK LOVE to the frog-raining, imposing orchestral thunderstorms of MAGNOLIA. In relatively recent years, Thomas has moved onto Radiohead’s Johnny Greenwood to accompany his swings between transfixing brilliance and unbearable pretention, often within the same films. If anything, Greenwood’s music has tended to be even more innovatively insane than Brion’s, ranging between abstract modernism and hypnotic melody to capture the addled minds of kingpins, whether it was an oil baron’s very bad attitude […]Read On »


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DESERT DANCER composer Benjamin Wallfisch finds movement in forbidden territory – Interview

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER 05/23/2015
DESERT DANCER soundtrack | ©2015 Varese Sarabande Records

More than ever, the regions of the Middle East and Asia are the tragic grounds for thousands of people trying to make better lives for themselves in the face of religious repression and grinding poverty. This is the musical link when it comes to Benjamin Wallfisch expressing the souls of Iran and India in his immensely moving, reality-based scores to DESERT DANCER and BHOPAL: A PRAYER FOR RAIN. The first speaks for the struggle of Afshin Ghaffarian, a young man whose spirit refuses to stay still for the murderous, moral police that stand for his country’s Islamist government – a […]Read On »


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CD Review: ON THE WATERFRONT soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER
ON THE WATERFRONT soundtrack | ©2015 Intrada Records

There are composers like Philip Glass (CANDYMAN) who start out in the concert hall, and go onto blaze impressive new careers in Hollywood. Then there are those like Andre Previn (ELMER GANTRY), who prolifically begin in tinsel town, only to leave it completely behind. And then there are such maestros as John Corigliano (ALTERED STATES), who briefly tread in Hollywood while making sure not to quit their day jobs, leaving behind a precious few soundtracks that show the dazzling movie career that could have been. On that note, perhaps no conductor could have been a Hollywood contender like Leonard Bernstein, […]Read On »


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Movie Review: TIME LAPSE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
TIME LAPSE movie poster | ©2015 XLerator Media

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Danielle Panabaker, Matt O’Leary, George Finn, Amin Joseph, Jason Spisak, Sharon Maughan, David Figlioli Writers: Bradley King & BP Cooper Director: Bradley King Distributor: XLerator Media Release Date: theatrical & VOD, May 15, 2015 While not quite up there with 2004’s low-budget mind-bending time-travel thriller PRIMER, TIME LAPSE is a smart, pretty tight story that uses narrative invention and a single sci-fi element in lieu of production money. Directed by Bradley King, who co-wrote the clever screenplay with BP Cooper, TIME LAPSE introduces us to three roommates: would-be writer/current waitress Callie (Danielle Panabaker), artist and courtyard […]Read On »


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CD Review: SHAFT soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER 05/22/2015
SHAFT soundtrack | ©2014 La La Land Records

Honkeys had their gun slinging, women-bedding superhero named James Bond for years until a 1971 sex machine named John Shaft showed that a black private dick could be just as bad-ass, especially when it came to an urban action-funk groove that got Isaac Hayes an Oscar winning song and nominated score. So perhaps it was a little ironic that a “white bloke from Luton” who’d been busy scoring 007 would land the music gig for John Singleton’s 2000 reboot, giving Sam Jackson a tailor-made vehicle to cement him as a big screen mofo. But even given Arnold’s urban pedigree that […]Read On »


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Movie Review: TOMORROWLAND

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
TOMORROWLAND movie poster | ©2015 Walt Disney Pictures

Rating: PG Stars: George Clooney, Hugh Laurie, Britt Robertson, Raffey Cassidy, Thomas Robinson, Pierce Gagnon Writers: Damon Lindelof and Brad Bird, story by Brad Bird & Damon Lindelof & Jeff Jensen Director: Brad Bird Distributor: Walt Disney Pictures Release Date: May 22, 2015 Supremely well-intentioned and very uneven, TOMORROWLAND is a movie that’s easier to appreciate than to actually enjoy. Yes, it has some great concepts and delightful moments, but it also has long stretches that feel borrowed from dozens of other kid-friendly quest stories, along with some expository dialogue that goes on longer than is safe. TOMORROWLAND starts with […]Read On »


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TV Review: DANCING WITH THE STARS – Season 20 – Week 10 – Season Finale – Willis & Chmerkovskiy take the gold!

By PAMELA HARLAND 05/20/2015
Rumer Willis and Val Chmerkovskiy win DANCING WITH THE STARS - Season 20 | ©2015 ABC/Adam Taylor

Stars: Noah Galloway, Riker Lynch, Rumer Willis Network: ABC Original Telecast: May 19th, 2015 Yippee Ki…yah! Rumer Willis and Val Chmerkovskiy take the golden mirror ball trophy on DANCING WITH THE STARS season 20! What a night! What a competition! What a season! Willis and Chmerkovskiy consistently stayed at the top or close to the top of the leader board throughout the entire season, proving themselves again and again as the couple to reckon with come the finals. They scored three perfect scores on their last three dances and won the hearts of all the fans as Willis was portrayed […]Read On »


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TV Review: DANCING WITH THE STARS – Season 20 – Week 10 – Season Finale – Freestyle Perfection!

By PAMELA HARLAND 05/19/2015
Allison Holker and Riker Lynch in DANCING WITH THE STARS - Season 20 - Week 10 - Season Finale | ©2015 ABC/Adam Taylor

Stars: Noah Galloway, Riker Lynch, Rumer Willis Network: ABC, airs Mondays Original Telecast: May 18th, 2015 Another sensational night on DANCING WITH THE STARS as three couples perfect their Freestyle dances it’s a tight race to the finish. Rumer Willis & Val, Chmerkovskiy, Riker Lynch & Allison Holker and Noah Galloway & Sharna Burgess all received a flawless 40 for their Freestyles after all three recreated another one of their dances from the season. Willis & Chmerkovskiy and Lynch & Holker also received perfect scores for their redos while Galloway & Burgess earned just 32 points for their do-over dance. […]Read On »


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Blu-ray and DVD Reviews for the Week of May 19, 2015

By PETER BROWN 05/18/2015
AMERICAN SNIPER | © 2015 Warner Home Video

Your time is short. We know this. So in order to expedite your buying and Netflix decision making, we provide you with a list of the cool and not-so-cool titles coming out for movies, television and everything in-between. So put your feet up, grab some popcorn and check out this week’s selections. Movies: Some good stuff this week including the Academy Award winning AMERICAN SNIPER mixed in with some not-so-good stuff that highlights the week of DVD and Blu-ray titles for the week of May 19, 2015. AMERICAN SNIPER – What hasn’t been said about AMERICAN SNIPER? It is an […]Read On »


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Interview: Composer Geoff Zanneli helps pulls off a shagedlically artistocract art heist with MORTDECAI

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER 05/17/2015
MORTDECAI | ©2015 Lionsgate

  There’s no doubt that the O.G. masters of movie score Shagadelia knew they were being funny back in the ultra-60s day when Burt Bacharach had various James Bonds bouncing to the Tijuana Brass, or Charles Fox and Bob Crewe were disrobing Barbarella from her space suit to the strains of a female chorus and a funk guitar. Now with the groovy one-two punch of George S. Clinton and David Holmes making already-hip retro rhythms cool again for Austin Powers’ wacky spy jazz and the rocking organ-guitar grooves of twelve con artists pulling a big Vegas rip-off, everything old is […]Read On »


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