Music Break: Top 5 favorite 2022 film scores snubbed by Oscars

Happy Weekend, all! I'm taking a bit of a break from movie reviews as I still have the Oscars in my mind. There's still a bunch of controversies swirling around the nominations, the latest one focusing on Andrea Riseborough's nomination in the Best Actress category. Apparently, The Academy is conducting a review of the campaign …

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Merry Christmas! Five Favorite Christmas Songs in Movies 🎄

Happy Christmas Eve and Merry Christmas, everyone! Like many of you, I'm not traveling anywhere this Christmas... it's just too cumbersome to plan for traveling, even domestically, given this Omnicron surge. Basically the pandemic is far from over, and you know what, I'm feeling blessed that my hubby and I are in good health and …

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Music Break – Five favorite songs from West Side Story

I am still humming the gorgeous songs from West Side Story today, as last night I had the privilege of seeing the newly-adapted musical directed by Steven Spielberg at a Dolby Cinema. I haven't done a Music Break since last August, so I thought today would be the perfect time to highlight the timeless songs …

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Music Break – The fabulous songs from The Greatest Showman (2017)

I can't believe I hadn't done a Music Break post on The Greatest Showman since it's been released three years ago. I've been listening to its songs over and over, and it's truly one of my absolute favorite musicals in the past decade. Interesting Trivia - courtesy of Screen Rant and IMDb: The musical grossed …

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Music Break – The fabulous songs from Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey

Happy mid December, everyone! It's less than two weeks until Christmas so I've been watching more holiday-themed movies than usual… naturally. So this weekend I decided to watch one new Christmas movie and my hubby + I debated whether to watch The Christmas Chronicles or Jingle Jangle on Netflix. We decided on the latter because …

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Music Break: 5 Scores To Celebrate JUNETEENTH 2020

Happy Freedom Day! Juneteenth is also known as Emancipation Day, Black Independence Day or Jubilee Day. Per the National Registry, Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. Note that this was two and a half years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation - which had become official …

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Music Break: 10 Patriotic Film Scores To Honor Memorial Day

Happy Memorial Day, everyone! It's certainly an unusually quiet Memorial Weekend for most of us. Instead of kicking off the 'official' Summer travel season here in the US, the Covid-19 pandemic has basically ground everyone as stay-at-home order are still in place in many areas. But one thing remain the same… in that we ought …

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