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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.
Movie Music UK
25m ago
I’m pleased to present the latest instalment in my on-going series of articles looking at the best under-the-radar scores from around the world. This article, the third of 2024, covers seven scores from a wide array of genres and countries: a Chinese thriller about an autistic math genius, a French historical TV mini-series, a Spanish ..read more
Movie Music UK
2d ago
GREATEST SCORES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Original Review by Craig Lysy MGM was seeking to produce another in its fine line of musicals and decided they had found their story; “The Sobbin’ Women” by Stephen Vincent Benet, which was itself derived from the ancient roman mythological tale “The Rape of the Sabine Women”. Jack Cummings ..read more
Movie Music UK
5d ago
by Mark Walker There’s a moment in the second episode of the HBO-RAI TV series My Brilliant Friend that encapsulates for me everything about the subtle art of Max Richter’s film scoring. In a pivotal sequence the two young girls, Lila and Elena, decide to venture outside of their Neapolitan ghetto for the very first ..read more
Movie Music UK
5d ago
THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton Exit to Eden is a romantic comedy-drama film loosely based on Anne Rice’s 1985 novel of the same name. The film was by directed Garry Marshall and stars Aussie actor Paul Mercurio – hot from his success in Strictly Ballroom in 1992 – as Elliot Slater, a photographer ..read more
Movie Music UK
5d ago
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton Despite being a long-time fan of the character as a whole – at least since Michael Keaton donned the mask and cowl in 1989 – for some reason I never really embraced the world of Animated Batman. I never sat down and watched any episodes of Batman: The Animated Series ..read more
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1w ago
GREATEST SCORES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Original Review by Craig Lysy CinemaScope technology with its anamorphic lens transformed film-making in 1953, by allowing Hollywood studios to shoot widescreen pictures to offer big screen visuals that could not be duplicated by the emerging TV market. 20th Century Fox studio executive Daryl F. Zanuck decided that he ..read more
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1w ago
THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton Timecop is a science fiction action film directed by Peter Hyams and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Ron Silver, and Mia Sara. The story is set in a future where time travel has been invented and is regulated by the Time Enforcement Commission (TEC) to prevent temporal crimes. Van ..read more
Movie Music UK
2w ago
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton The seventh film in the Alien franchise that began in 1979, Alien: Romulus expands the original universe created by director Ridley Scott and writers Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett in new and interesting directions, exploring links between the original film and the recent ‘prequels’ Prometheus and Covenant. Chronologically the film ..read more
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2w ago
GREATEST SCORES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Original Review by Craig Lysy In 1951 the English novel Moonfleet, written in 1898 by J. Meade Falkner, caught the eye of MGM executives, who decided that this exciting, Gothic, swashbuckling melodrama in the vein of Treasure Island could be successfully brought to the big screen. MGM purchased the ..read more
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3w ago
GREATEST SCORES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Original Review by Craig Lysy MGM Studios was keen to capitalize on the success of their exotic adventure film King Solomon’s Mines from 1950. Two years later they found what they were looking for when director Robert Pirosh came across the book “Gods, Graves and Scholars” by C. W ..read more