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FSCT Playlist #3 – Klaatu Barada Nikto!
In weeks when I’m editing the latest issue of FSMO, my listening goes way down and tends to focus on the scores we’re featuring in the magazine. Writing to music in the background helps me
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FSCT Playlist #2 – First Class, My Ass!
Week two of the FSCT Playlist was a bit lightweight in terms of numbers and heavy on Howard Shore for this month’s “9 on the 9th” post. There are certainly worse companions in film
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9 Favorite Film Scores of Howard Shore
June seems to be Howard Shore month. THE LORD OF THE RINGS extended editions are being released on Blu-ray at the end of the month, it was just announced that RETURN OF THE KING will return to
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CD Review: X-Men: First Class
I freely admit that I don’t know jack about X-Men. I’ve never read the comics and I only saw the first movie years after its 2000 release. So I went into X-MEN: FIRST CLASS
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FSCT Playlist #1 – In the Beginning…
As I mentioned last week, I love lists. So beginning this week, I’m instituting a weekly run-through of my playlist. Each Monday or Tuesday I’ll share the film scores I’ve listened to over the
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FSCT Playlist…Wanna Play?
I love lists. The obsessive-compulsive inside me has always been attracted to them. Oscar winners, Pulitzer winners, year-end lists of every shape and size…you name it. If it’s a list, I dig it. For
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CD Review: Pirates of the Caribbean – On Stranger Tides
There’s very little gray area when it comes to how film music fans feel about the PIRATES OF THE CARIBEEAN music. But to complain about the scores at this stage of the game is
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Avast, Ye Matey!
“‘Avast, ye matey’?!…What the hell does that mean?” —Jerry Seinfeld Maybe it’s the time period, the powdered wigs, or all the repetitive (though usually impressive) sword fighting that turns me off, but I’ve never
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Kundun
When Martin Scorcese’s KUNDUN was released on Christmas Day, 1997, its box office prospects were decidedly slim. The film cost $24 million and only took in a paltry $5.6 million, far below the $42 million
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