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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Music Break: Five Beautiful Scores from Vangelis

Earlier this week, on May 17, one of the best Hollywood composers Vangelis passed away at age 79. Though he's not the most prolific film composer, the few scores that he did are practically iconic. As a fan of the Greek maestro, I thought I'd do a tribute in this month's Music Break. Known for …

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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: ABBA’s songs in Mamma Mia!

Happy midweek everyone! It's kind of a sleepy Wednesday even though just exactly a week ago I was extremely busy casting for my upcoming short film project, Master Servant. It was my first time holding auditions (as I didn't have to do that Hearts Want) and let's just say it was quite an experience. I …

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Music Break: St Patrick’s Day Special – Favorite songs from movies set in Ireland

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY everyone! I'm wearing green today… we're all Irish on March 17th, right?  In my Sing Street review I said I was going to make a Music Break post dedicated to that movie. Well I haven't got a chance to do so but hey, it's perfect for today! Since I haven't done …

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