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CD Review: INFAMOUS SECOND SON soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER 05/27/2014
INFAMOUS SECOND SON soundtrack | ©2014 Sumthing Else

Sucker Punch’s grunge -powered game makes an electrifying leap to next-gen with SECOND SON the new INFAMOUS game that throws its slacker superheroes into Seattle environs to be pursued by nefarious government forces. It’s X-MEN meets Kurt Cobain if you will, which makes composers the decision of composers Marc Canham (FAR CRY 2), Nathan Johnson (LOOPER) and INFAMOUS 2‘s Brain to go for a Pearl Jam-charged action score right on the beanie-wearing, spray-painting money. Where other video game soundtracks might achieve their adrenalin through pure, and sometimes dull electro-beats, this trio employs thrashing guitars, echoed hollering and sweat-flying drum solos […]Read On »


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TV Review: SUPERNATURAL – Season 9 – “King of the Damned”

By RACHEL REITSLEFF 05/26/2014
Jared Padalecki as Sam and Jensen Ackles as Dean in SUPERNATURAL - Season 9 - "King of the Damned" | ©2014 The CW/Katie Yu

Stars: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Misha Collins, Mark A. Sheppard, Alaina Huffman, Tahmoh Penikett, Theo Devaney, Gordon Michael Woolvett Writers: Brad Buckner & Eugenie Ross-Leming, series created by Eric Kripke Director: P.J. Pesce Network: The CW, Tuesdays @ 9 PM Original Airdate: May 6, 2014 After the previous week’s backdoor pilot, SUPERNATURAL gets back to business with “King of the Damned,” which gives us both Crowley (Mark A. Sheppard) fighting for his hellish throne and Castiel (Misha Collins) trying to get through to Gadreel (Tahmoh Penikett). Crowleyhas the flashier and bloodier story.Crowleyfinds himself trapped by his rival, the Knight of […]Read On »


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CD Review: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST soundtrack | ©2014 Quartet Records

A tale as old as time, and the movies, gets a fantastical, live action French reboot from Christophe Gans, a director who knows something about fearsome animals after making BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF. Beyond its stylized snowscape, a standout spell for this relatively faithful version is its gorgeous score by Pierre Adenot, whose lavishly melodic and utterly enchanting score conjures the light and darkness of fairy tale imagination in any musical language, sans the singing teapots. Having scored numerous films in his native land (with his contribution to PARIS JE T’AIME likely being most familiar to American audiences), BEAUTY AND […]Read On »


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CD Review: THE RAID 2 soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER 05/25/2014
THE RAID 2 soundtrack | ©2014 Spacelab 9

While its exhausting running time and sadistic body count certainly isn’t expanded on to THE RAID 2‘s benefit, one returning factor that this sequel makes bigger, better and more bad-ass is the in the punishingly exciting score by Joseph Trapanese and two composers given their shot at redemption.Teamed with Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda for the first apartment-by-apartment Armageddon of  THE RAID Trapanese is now accompanied by Aria Prayogi and Fajar Yuskemai – the Indonesian dudes who actually scored REDEMPTION before Trapanese and Shinoda kicked them to the curb. But there’s anything but hard feelings here beyond meting out even more […]Read On »


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CD Review: CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER soundtrack | ©2014 Intrada Records

Where most Marvel movie scores have been sure to couch their metal musical exosuits in warmly approachable orchestral flesh, CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER is the first comic book score from the studio to truly do a Terminator number on its listeners for a significant chunk of time, going for hammering, stripped-down percussion and nail-on-chalkboard effects, a cold, troubling sound even crazier than the kind of ultra-beat scoring you’d normally get for scores featuring such assassin-turned-heroes as Jason Bourne. However, we’re talking about a hero-turned-assassin in THE WINTER SOLDIER, which is more than justification for Henry Jackman to come up […]Read On »


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TV Review: GAME OF THRONES – Season 4 – “The Laws of Gods and Men”

By RACHEL REITSLEFF
Peter Dinklage in GAME OF THRONES - Season 4 - "The Laws of Gods and Men" | ©2014 HBO/Helen Sloan

Stars: Peter Dinklage, Lena Headey, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Emilia Clarke, Iain Glen, Kit Harington, Sophie Turner, Maisie Williams, Isaac Hempstead-Wright, Alfie Allen, Charles Dance, Rory McCann, Conleth Hill, Stephen Dillane, Liam Cunningham, Aidan Gillen, Iain Glen,  Gwendoline Christie, Natalie Dormer, Sibel Kekilli, Kristian Nairn, Gemma Whelan, Julian Glover, Iwan Rheon, Ian McElhinnie, Daniel Portman, Nathalie Emmanuel, Jacob Anderson, Dean-Charles Chapman, Thomas Sangster, Ellie Kendrick, Michiel Huisman, Owen Teale, Kate Dickie, Lino Facioli, Pedro Pascal, Mark Gatiss, Joel Fry, Ian Beattie Writer: Bryan Cogman, series created by David Benioff & D.B. Weiss, based on George R.R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and […]Read On »


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CD Review: YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER 05/24/2014
YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES soundtrack | ©2014 Intrada Records

The ’80s were the glory days when it came to the Amblin pictures that truly imparted company head Steven Spielberg’s handprint of thrillingly humanistic fantasy and chills to any number of movies that stand as classics for a certain generation – among them BACK TO THE FUTURE, GREMLINS and THE GOONIES. Also uniting these movies were their sweeping orchestral scores by the likes of Alan Silvestri, Jerry Goldsmith and Dave Grusin, which also resonated with a topical pop sound. But if there was one Amblin composer who stood as the answer to equaling the thrillingly lush, symphonic quality of John […]Read On »


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Movie Review: COLD IN JULY

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
COLD IN JULY movie poster | ©2014 IFC Films

Rating: Unrated Stars: Michael C. Hall, Sam Shepard, Don Johnson, Vinessa Shaw Writers: Nick Damici & Jim Mickle, based on the novel by Joe R. Lansdale Director: Jim Mickle Distributor: IFC Films Release Date: May 23, 2014 Adapted from a novel by Joe R. Lansdale, one can see the elements that should make COLD IN JULY a sharp thriller. It’s got a great cast, headed up by Michael C. Hall, Sam Shepard and Don Johnson, an intriguing premise and, in Jim Mickle, a director who wants to make sure that the scenes look interesting. So what’s the problem? Without having […]Read On »


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Movie Review: X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
X-MEN - DAYS OF FUTURE PAST poster | ©2014 Fox/Marvel

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, Halle Berry, Nicholas Hoult, Anna Paquin, Ellen Page, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Peter Dinklage, Shawn Ashmore. Omar Sy, Evan Peters Writer: Simon Kinberg, story by Jane Goldman & Simon Kinberg & Matthew Vaughn Director: Bryan Singer Distributor: 20th Century Fox Release Date: May 23, 2014 If you’re going to make an installment of a film franchise that potentially erases the continuity of previous endeavors, X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST demonstrates how to do it with not only style but real urgency. Don’t just randomly drop time travelers into the […]Read On »


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DANCING WITH THE STARS Season 18 Recap: James Maslow is out leading into the Finals

By PAMELA HARLAND 05/20/2014
James Maslow and Peta Murgatroyd in DANCING WITH THE STARS - Season 18 | ©2014 ABC/Craig Sjodin

Stars: James Maslow, Meryl Davis, Candace Cameron Bure, Amy Purdy, Network: ABC, airs Mondays Original Telecast: May 19th, 2014 Wow! All I can say is there are some die hard FULL HOUSE fans out there! Not since Bristal Palin or Marie Osmond made it to the DANCING WITH THE STARS finals has a celeb with the lowest scores continued to thrive on the show – not to say she is as bad as Palin, Candace Cameron Bure is a much better dancer. Still, Bure and partner & Mark Ballas have beaten the odds and are now on to day two […]Read On »


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