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Hi! I'm Jonathan Broxton. I've always been interested in film music, for as long as I can remember. And here I share my film score reviews.
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THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton Thomas Stearns ‘T. S.’ Eliot is considered to be one of the 20th century’s greatest poets, with notable works such as The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Hollow Men, Ash Wednesday, Four Quartets, and Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, the latter of which inspired the ..read more
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Original Review by Jonathan Broxton Each year at the Film Fest in Ghent, Belgium, one composer is awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the World Soundtrack Awards committee, and as part of that experience there is a live concert of their music, and an accompanying soundtrack compilation CD. Previous Lifetime Achievement Award winners include Laurence ..read more
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GREATEST SCORES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Original Review by Craig Lysy Warner Brothers Studios was approached by director Elia Kazan with a proposition to base a film on the fourth, and final part of John Steinbeck’s 1952 novel East of Eden. Given his reliable track record of success, the studio gave him the green light ..read more
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Original Review by Jonathan Broxton The Wild Robot is a new animated science fiction adventure film, based on the 2016 children’s novel of the same name by Peter Brown, and directed by Chris Sanders, one of the co-directors of How to Train Your Dragon. The story follows the life of Roz, a highly sophisticated service ..read more
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THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton The Santa Clause is a Christmas fantasy comedy movie starring Tim Allen as Scott Calvin, a divorced father who accidentally causes Santa Claus to fall from his roof and die one Christmas Eve. Scott unwittingly agrees to a “contract” – the titular “Santa clause” – by putting on ..read more
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Original Review by Jonathan Broxton Here is a cinematic experiment film directed by Robert Zemeckis, adapted from a graphic novel by Richard McGuire, which uses the ‘static camera’ conceit to tell the story of a specific place throughout time – from the era of the dinosaurs through the ice age, to the dawn of humanity ..read more
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GREATEST SCORES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Original Review by Craig Lysy The genesis Untamed lies with South African Helga Moray, who wrote a 17-page outline of the story that drew inspiration from one her female ancestors. Her handiwork caught the eye of producer William Bacher who saw a story that needed to be brough to ..read more
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Composer Quincy Jones died on November 3, 2024, after a short illness. He was 91 years old. Quincy Delight Jones Jr. – known to all as ‘Q’ – was born in Chicago, Illinois, in March 1933. Jones grew up in a challenging environment, with his mother battling schizophrenia and his father working as a carpenter ..read more
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Original Review by Jonathan Broxton Conclave is the latest film from German director Edward Berger, whose last film All Quiet on the Western Front won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, and was nominated for Best Picture, in 2022. It is based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Robert Harris and ..read more
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THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton Growing up in the United Kingdom, baseball was never a sport that was ever on my radar, but even with my limited knowledge of its history there were still some names which transcended and were familiar as icons of the game: Babe Ruth. Lou Gehrig. Joe Di Maggio ..read more