Category: Soundtrack Reviews

CD: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)

CD: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)

February 16, 2012 | By

Return to: Home / Soundtrack  Reviews / T to U . Rating: Excellent Label: Silva Screen/ Released: September 19, 2011 Tracks & Album Length: 19 tracks / (59:31) . Special Notes: 8-page colour booklet. . Composer: Alberto Iglesias . . Review: The Cold War spy film is its own genre, less reliant on action, elaborate physical chase […]

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CD: Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)

CD: Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)

February 16, 2012 | By

Return to: Home / Soundtrack  Reviews / T to U . Rating: Excellent Label: La-La Land Records / Released: November 29, 2011 Tracks & Album Length: 21 tracks / (55:58) . Special Notes: 16-page colour booklet with liner notes by film historian Julie Kirgo / Limited to 2,000 copies.. . Composer: Jerry Goldsmith . . Review: Tora! Tora! […]

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CD: Mysterious Island (1961)

CD: Mysterious Island (1961)

February 5, 2012 | By

  Rating: Excellent Label: Cloud Nine Records/ Released: 1993 Tracks & Album Length: 12 tracks / (42:20)   Special Notes: Colour booklet.   Composer: Bernard Herrmann     Review: Perhaps an immediate sign that Bernard Herrmann was the ideal choice for Ray Harrryhausen’s Mysterious Island (1961) is Herrmann’s eye on gravitas rather than outrageousness, be […]

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CD + MP3: Innkeepers, The (2011)

CD + MP3: Innkeepers, The (2011)

January 28, 2012 | By

Rating: Very Good Label: Screamworks Records/ Released: January 31, 2012 Tracks & Album Length: 14 tracks / (40:15)   Special Notes: Available on CD and as a digital album.   Composer: Jeff Grace     Review: Jeff Grace’s latest score for director Ti West is a more melodic work, insofar as most cues are tied […]

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CD: Darkest Hour, The (2011)

CD: Darkest Hour, The (2011)

January 18, 2012 | By

Return to: Home / Soundtrack  Reviews / D . Rating: Very Good Label: Lakeshore Records/ Released: January 17, 2012 Tracks & Album Length: 19 tracks / (50:00) . Special Notes: n/a. . Composer: Tyler Bates . . Review: For his second feature film as director, Chris Gorak carries over his taste for electronic textures and has Tyler […]

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