Happy Thursday everyone! It’s been over a month since my last music break, and I definitely could use one today. As a preview to our monthly Bond post coming next week, I feel like highlighting one of my favorite Bond scores. I’ve posted my top five Bond title songs, but as far as main scores [...]
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Music Break: Cinema Paradiso (1988)
Posted in Music Break, tagged Cinema Paradiso, Cinema Paradiso soundtrack, Ennio Morricone, favorite soundtrack, Monica Mancini CInema Paradiso, movie music, movies, music break on March 8, 2012 | 37 Comments »
I’m not feeling too well today so naturally I turn to lush, gorgeous music to make me feel better and this one just immediately came to mind. In fact, as I said in my Cinema Paradiso review, I had fallen in love with Ennio Morricone’s soundtrack long before I finally saw the film. Of course [...]
Music Break: Top 10 Favorite John Williams Score
Posted in Music Break, The Flix List, tagged Best John Williams soundtrack, Happy Birthday John Williams, John Williams, movie music, movies, music break, Top 10 Favorite John Williams scores on February 8, 2012 | 34 Comments »
I’ve been meaning to write a tribute for one of my favorite composers for a while and since February 8th is his 80th Birthday, it seems like a good a time as any. As I’ve mentioned several times on my blog, my two all time favorite music genres are classical and movie soundtracks, so naturally [...]
Music Break: Mozart in the Movies
Posted in Music Break, tagged Amadeus movie 1984, F Murray Abraham Salieri, movie music, movies, Mozart in movies, Mozart Piano Concerto No. 21, Mozart's 256th birthday, music break, The King's Speech soundtrack, Tom Hulce Mozart on January 27, 2012 | 25 Comments »
Today January 27th 2012, marks the 256th anniversary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s birth. I listen to classical NPR to and from work a lot and they’re promoting a special program commemorating this event. Well, as my two of my all time favorite music genres are classical and soundtracks, I thought I’d sort of combine the two [...]
Music Break: Disney’s Beauty & The Beast
Posted in Music Break, tagged animated movies, Beauty & The Beast 3D, Belle, david ogden stiers, Disney Beauty & The Beast prologue, Disney Beauty & The Beast Something There Clip, movies, music break, music from Beauty & The Beast, tale as old as time on January 13, 2012 | 30 Comments »
Happy Friday the 13th everybody! No, there’s not gonna be any horror-related post on here… actually I’m in need of a blogging break today, been so tired at work lately. Since the weather suddenly turns frigid (40 degrees swing within 48 hrs!), I thought a little uplifting music would perk up anyone’s day right? Well, [...]
Music Break: Five Fave Scores from Gregory Peck Films
Posted in Music Break, tagged Arabesque music, Dimitri Tiomkin, Elmer Bernstein, Gregory Peck, Henry Mancini, Hitchcock Spellbound theme, movie music, movies, Spellbound soundtrack, The Big Country score, To Kill a Mockingbird score on December 22, 2011 | 8 Comments »
Hello all, I’m kind of taking a blogging break today… I was going to write a review of The Artist but I’ll save that for next week. So how about a bit of movie music to perk up your day. As you already know, my recent Gregory Peck marathon has been a blast. Out of [...]
Music Break: Top Five Favorite Hans Zimmer Scores
Posted in Music Break, tagged Batman Begins soundtrack, Favorite Hans Zimmer music, Gladiator Now We Are Free, Hans Zimmer, Hans Zimmer soundtrack, Inception score, movie music, movies, Regarding Henry score, The Last Samurai score on September 13, 2011 | 54 Comments »
Happy Tuesday, folks. I don’t have much time to blog today but I thought I’d highlight one of my favorite composers, Hans Zimmer, who turned 54 yesterday. Ever so prolific with over 140 works under his belt, including movies, TV and even video games, the German native is known for using tribal/ethnic sounding elements in [...]
Patrick Doyle to score Pixar’s BRAVE – Five fave music from the Scottish composer
Posted in Flix News, Music Break, tagged Ang Lee's Sense & Sensibility soundtrack, favorite Patrick Doyle scores, Great Expectation Kissing in the Rain, movie soundtrack, movies, Patrick Doyle, Patrick Doyle Pixar BRAVE, Scottish princess Mérida Pixar Brave, THOR soundtrack on July 7, 2011 | 19 Comments »
The Scottish love affair in Pixar’s upcoming 3D adventure continues. As you’ve seen in the trailer and poster, the fairy tale story is set in ancient Scotland about a feisty Scottish princess. The film already boast a stellar cast of talents from that neck of the woods, and now, Pixar has commissioned a renowned Scottish [...]
Weekend Viewing Plans and Music Break: The King’s Speech Score
Posted in Music Break, Weekend Roundup, tagged Alexandre Desplat The King's Speech score, Liam Neeson, movie posters, movies, The King's Speech, The King's Speech soundtrack, Unknown and Taken movie posters, Unknown is basically Taken 2, Unknown movie Liam Neeson, weekend viewing on February 18, 2011 | 44 Comments »
Hello everybody, happy Friday! My office will be closed for President’s Day on Monday so it’ll be a three-day weekend, YAY! I haven’t been to the theater for a while. I think the last film I saw at the theater was The Fighter back in January, wow! Well, I don’t know if I’ll make it [...]








