Author: Allison Loring

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…