Rolfe Kent’s music for Bad Words is another light score designed to support a tale of irrational, impulsive human behaviour without drawing attention to the music. The composer’s instrumental palette is comprised of mostly woodwinds played with breathy exasperation, a jaunty rhythm, and a piano which sometimes offers little moments of sobering introspection…
The combination of folk instruments, a little classical, and chunks of heavy metal make sense in uplifting a tale where a trio of Dungeons and Dragons players conjure real-life danger, but Knights of Badassdom also feels like a natural development for composer Bear McCreary after his Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome (2013)…
Tuomas Kanteline’s writing feels both physically and emotionally epic, and from the lengthy cues which make up this engrossing album, it seems he was given liberties to ease into his material in slow waves, moving carefully from gentle to brooding sections (“Intervention of the Gods”)…
A key player in Australia’s film industry during the 1970s and 1980s and best known for a series of clever and sometimes vicious Ozploitation films, prolific writer Everett De Roche passed away yesterday at the age of 67.
Review of the rarely-seen film noir Man in the Dark (1953), the first 3D feature film produced by a Hollywood studio, released in both Comin’-at-ya! and Flat-and-safe! formats by Twilight Time.
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