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Video Game Soundtracks + Composer Interview

Video Game Soundtracks + Composer Interview

November 21, 2012 | By

Podcast interview with composer / orchestrator Penka Kouneva regarding her latest CD, A Warrior’s Journey (Howlin’ Wolfe Records) plus reviews of UBISOFT’s double header – Assassin’s Creed III by Lorne Balfe and Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation by Winifred Phillips.

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A Weaker Mystique for Denmark’s The Killing / Forbrydelsen, Season 2

A Weaker Mystique for Denmark’s The Killing / Forbrydelsen, Season 2

November 10, 2012 | By

Nit-picky review of the issues faced by the writers of The Killing / Forbrydelsen: Season 2 when the producers cut the episode run from 20 to 10, and perhaps waited too long for a follow-up season + quick thoughts on that familiar-looking Skyfall poster.

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Lorne Balfe scores Prince Harry’s Arctic Heroes

Lorne Balfe scores Prince Harry’s Arctic Heroes

November 8, 2012 | By

Time’s tight today, so there’ll be no editorial blather, and just the facts. Uploaded is a podcast interview with composer Lorne Balfe regarding his recent scoring of the BBC documentary Harry Welcomes Arctic Heroes [M] (2011) in which four British war vets ski to the North Pole under the sponsorship of Prince Harry for the […]

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Bye Bye Birdie & Ann-Margrock

Bye Bye Birdie & Ann-Margrock

November 6, 2012 | By

New at the beginning of this annoyingly chilly week – a review of Bye Bye Birdie (1963), George Sidney’s blazing Technicolor film version of the surreal, satirical Broadway musical. Twilight Time’s Blu-ray looks & sounds gorgeous, and Ann-Marget (“Ann-Margrock” to others) leaps from the TV and screams at you in DTS!

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Soundtrack Reviews

Soundtrack Reviews

October 18, 2012 | By

Soundtrack reviews for Bill Brown’s Brother’s Keeper (MovieScore Media), Mateo Messina’s Butter, Brian Byrne’s The Good Doctor, Craig Armstrong’s In Time (all Lakeshore Records), and Nathan Johnson’s Looper (Cut Narrative / La-La-Land).

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