There’s no denying Richard Stanley’s Hardware draws from the Terminator franchise, and rode on the wave of post-apocalyptic thrillers where the world has gone to Hell and those who survive do so under a blanket of grime, but Stanley’s economical tale of a revived killer robot rampaging through a spacious apartment has a decidedly Orwellian atmosphere…
Soundtrack reviews of Trevor Rabin & Paul Linford’s 12 Monkeys and Rob McKuen’s A Boy Named Charlie Brown from Varese Sarabande, and Ryan Amon’s Bloodborne from Sumthing Else / Sony.
One would initially suspect a video game score composed by five might have a few discontinuities, but for the most part Bloodbourne maintains a strong epic tone, as performed by one massive orchestra. Ryan Amon’s contributions (which tend to make up the bulk of the score) establish the main theme…
After seven TV specials, it seemed inevitable that Charles Schulz’s Peanuts characters would make the leap to the big screen, and their theatrical debut came with Vince Guaraldi’s jazz themes plus new songs performed and co-written by Rod McKuen, an occasional film composer, songwriter, poet, and author…
Tasked with creating a sound that would match the new 12 Monkeys TV series, yet somehow harken back to the themes of the original 1995 film, Trevor Rabin and Paul Linford’s score uses pulses and chimes to infer physical and emotional states where there’s no firm historical rooting, no grasp of time or style or culture…
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