Music Break: Top 5 Fave Soundtracks from Henry Jackman

I had been listening to X-Men: First Class during my workout lately, one of my favorite scores of the past few years. Henry Jackman was a protégé of one of my favorite composers, Hans Zimmer, and he's been churning out great works himself. Born in Middlesex, UK, Jackman studied classical music at St. Paul's Cathedral Choir School, Eton College …

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Music Break: Top 10 Favorite Scores by James Horner

On Monday night I heard that Mr. James Horner was unaccounted for when a plane registered to him crashed in St. Barbara, CA, I prayed he'd turn out ok. I started listening to his music all night long and was amazed at how many of them I love. Before I went to bed, I already picked my top …

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Music Break: Jurassic Park Soundtrack (1993)

Well, I saw Jurassic World last night. It was one of my most-anticipated movies of the year and one of the most evocative thing to me is STILL John Williams' score. It's one of my top 10 favorite scores from this legendary composer, out of a long list of phenomenal work. The score played within …

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Music Break: Not Another Happy Ending (2012)

I've been wanting to do this post for over a month now. In fact, if I had my way I'd just be blogging about this movie and Stanley Weber until my fingers bleed. But that's what Tumblr is for 😉 Ok so you probably know by now I've been obsessed with this Scottish rom-com for …

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Everybody’s Chattin’ and Music Break: Awesome songs from P.S. I Love You

Happy Wednesday all! March almost ran away from me again and I just realized I haven't done a community post yet this month. Well, did you do anything fun on St. Paddy's Day? Or should I say, have you recovered from all the parties & green beer? 😉 Well I didn't do much last night …

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Music Break: Five favorite scores from sci-fi movies about robots

As Ted just reviewed Chappie this weekend, he mentioned that the only thing he liked in the movie was Hans Zimmer's score. So it made me think of other robot movies that have great, memorable soundtracks. First thing that came to mind is of course Pacific Rim, boy I love that movie and its soundtrack, …

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Music Break: Disney’s Animated Classic CINDERELLA (1950)

One of the screenings I'll be going to later this week is the live-action adaptation of Cinderella. Now, I mentioned in this post that having grown up watching all those Disney Princess movies, naturally I'm curious to check it out. I know what you're thinking. Do we have to have a live action version of …

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