Author: Allison Loring
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‘The Hundred-Foot Journey’ Review: Amazing Food and an Overcooked Plot
Walt Disney In the middle of a busy Indian marketplace, a young boy steals a taste of a coveted sea urchin. The way he closes…
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‘Get on Up’ Review: Chadwick Boseman Finds the Funk, But Choppy Narrative Loses the Beat
Universal Pictures Tate Taylor’s Get on Up starts off with a literal bang. We first meet James Brown (as portrayed by Chadwick Boseman) while he…
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Michael Giacchino’s Strange, Pun-Filled Movie Scores
Brett Butterstein / Disney/Pixar Coming up with song titles for a score or soundtrack can be a tricky business. The music for a film is…
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‘Lucy’ Review: Scarlett Johansson’s Brains and Brawn Don’t Quite Mix
‘Lucy’ Review: Scarlett Johansson’s Brains and Brawn Don’t Quite Mix Universal Pictures The question of, “What would happen if we used more than ten percent of…
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How to Write Music That Terrifies People
Universal Pictures Watching gruesome scenes over and over seems like a symptom for someone battling serious demons, but when you’re the composer on a horror…
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Composer Christopher Young Delivers Us Some Evil
Screen Gems Christopher Young knows horror. After 32 years in the business and countless horror movies under his belt from Hellraiser to The Grudge to…
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Making the Music of ‘Dexter’ with Scissors and Bones
https://medium.com/media/1bb993b422d6e2f0c39bac2e398309d0/href The montage that opens every episode of Dexter is an interesting example of how showing every day images from certain angles can make innocuous…
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9 Things We Learned From Composers Mark Isham, John Ottman and Aaron Zigman
LAFF When you get three different musicians in a room, you never know what may happen. But when you get three composers in a room,…
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‘Stray Dog’ Review: Captivating Character Study of War-Torn Man Trying to Rebuild
Debra Granik Ronnie Hall’s nickname may be Stray Dog, but he is anything but a stray left on his own. Debra Granik’s documentary, Stray Dog,…