Jablonsky’s score is highly repetitive with little musical development; its themes are reinforced with military style instrumentation, rhythms and bursts of electronic sound.
David Julyan’s score for The Cabin In The Woods combines traditional instrumentation with the use of Synthesizer for a dark but beautiful orchestral-electronic collection.
As one of last year’s cinema highlights, Drive came with a soundtrack to match. Composed by Cliff Martinez, the score is nothing less than pure perfection.
Composed by Alan Menken, the soundtrack to Tarsem Singh’s retelling of Snow White, Mirror Mirror, is delicate at times, dark at others and listenable throughout.
John Williams’ soundtrack is epic with the variation of style, rhythm, pitch range, tension, release, continuity, coherence and shape making it a masterful work.
Composed by The Chemical Brothers, the score to Joe Wright’s Hanna is a work of sheer genius. I only hope this is a direction the Manchester duo continue to pursue.
Late summer nights and soft-core porn are what every teenage boy dreams of, but Patrick discovers something sublime in the music of The Red Shoe Dairies.
Although The Adventures of Tintin may not tug at the heartstrings as much as John William’s previous compositions, it does create the feeling of adventure.
Morris’ score combines traditional instrumentation with synthetic material for a futuristic feel, whilst also staying true to the period in which it is set.
Dario Marianelli’s soundtrack for Jane Eyre has little development or identification of theme, yet somehow still develops enough to progress the score successfully.
Conrad Pope creates an emotional journey into Marilyn Monroe’s life whilst keeping the 1950’s feel; with a little John Williams’ influence displayed along the way.
Thomas Newman’s majestic and grand score for The Iron Lady effectively combines the use of traditional instrumentation with more modern synthetic material.
Howard Shore teams up once again with his long time friend and director David Cronenberg to score A Dangerous Method, marking a fifth decade of collaboration.
Majestic, lively and tense, The Artist soundtrack covers heavy emotional themes ranging from one extreme to the other, and it manages to do this extremely well.
John Williams has indeed once again created an epic soundtrack for an epic film. War Horse is magnificent and stimulating throughout, it gives us hope.
With music by artists such as Lena Machado, Keola Beamer and George Winston, The Descendants soundtrack is an emotional and captivating Hawaiian experience.
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