Author: Allison Loring
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With Empire and Nashville, Music Has Taken Over Wednesday Nights On TV
Fox Television Wednesday nights have become a powerhouse for television shows about the music industry. Empire (airing at 9pm on FOX) focuses on music mogul…
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When It Comes to Movies About Music, Chemistry Matters
The Film Arcade At its core, music is emotion. Music captures an artist’s emotion when creating it and can conjure up a variety of emotions or…
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What The Film Music of 2015 Will Sound Like
LucasFilm The start of a new year is the start of new possibilities. As we reflect back on the past year (which we did pretty…
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How ‘A Most Violent Year’ Changed Composer Alex Ebert’s View on Music
A24 Alex Ebert’s score for A Most Violent Year ebbs and flows in a way that proves the composer is not afraid of quiet moments.…
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The Best Movie Music of 2014
2014 has been an exciting and fun time for movie music with a return to the classically styled soundtrack full of popular music to scores…
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Lorde’s Curated ‘Hunger Games’ Soundtrack Isn’t Really a Soundtrack
Lorde’s Curated ‘Hunger Games’ Soundtrack Isn’t Really a Soundtrack Lionsgate 2014 was the year of great soundtracks. Thanks to films like Guardians of the Galaxy…
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‘Still Alice’ Review: Julianne Moore Peels Back the Layers on a Heartbreaking Disease
Sony Pictures Classics Alice Howland (Julianne Moore) is a beautiful, intelligent, respected, accomplished linguistics professor, but she’s also starting to forget things. Nothing big ‐ a…
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The Electric Side of James Newton Howard
James Newton Howard is best known for his large, layered, cinematic scores for films like Maleficent, Snow White and the Huntsman, and The Hunger Games…
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‘The Homesman’ Review: Tommy Lee Jones On An Ill-Fated Journey
Roadside Attractions Times were rough when America was just starting out, and Tommy Lee Jones’s The Homesman (based on the novel by Glendon Swarthout) does…