When it comes to game audio, you can’t get any more experienced than Sam Yang. Sam is the mastermind responsible for first starting Tencent Games’ audio team over ten years ago. He has worked on the audio design and production for nearly 100 games to date, including international hits like Call of Duty: Mobile, Honor […]
Exclusive Interview – Composer Daniel Rojas discusses his score and songs for Netflix’s new series Kipo and the Age of the Wonderbeasts
The wait is finally over. Netflix’s much anticipated new original series Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts from DreamWorks Animation drops this week. If it’s anything like DreamWorks’ other hits Trollhunters, Voltron and She-Ra, then viewers are going to need to get comfortable for a five-hour binge session. The Kipo and the Age of the Wonderbeast synopsis […]
The Top Ten Film Scores of 2019
Hasitha Fernando on the top ten film scores of 2019… In terms of films both original and otherwise, 2019 proved to be quite a strong one. Although the box-office landscape was largely dominated by a plethora of comic-book films there were a great many creatively inspiring films like Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story, Rian Johnson’s Knives […]
Exclusive Interview – Composer Matt Novack on scoring Netflix’s upcoming series Medical Police
We chat with composer Matt Novack about Netflix’s Childrens Hospital spinoff Medical Police… “They’re Cops. They’re Doctors. At the Same Time.” The wait is almost over for Netflix’s Childrens Hospital spinoff, Medical Police, which begins streaming this Friday. The comedy, from the team behind the original series, follows American doctors Lola Spratt (Erinn Hayes) and Owen Maestro […]
Silent Master: The Early Films of Alfred Hitchcock
Gary Collinson examines the silent film career of Alfred Hitchcock… “In many of the films now being made, there is very little cinema: they are mostly what I call ‘photographs of people talking’. When we tell a story in the cinema, we should resort to dialogue only when it’s impossible to do otherwise.” – Alfred […]
Extreme Cinema – Salò
Salò, 1975. Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Starring Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Umberto P. Quintavalle and Aldo Valletti. Pier Paolo Pasolini’s final film Salò (Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma, 1975) is based on the Marquis de Sade’s novel 120 Days of Sodom. Instead of France, the story is set in the republic of […]
Extreme Cinema – Irreversible
Irreversible, 2002. Directed by Gaspar Noé. Starring Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, and Albert Dupontel. Irreversible (2002) features strong language, sex, violence and sexual violence in its tale of a woman raped in a subway and whose boyfriend and ex-lover seek a bloody revenge on her attacker. When shown at the Cannes Film Festival, the graphic […]
Extreme Cinema – Crash (1996)
Crash, 1996. Directed by David Cronenberg. Starring James Spader, Deborah Unger, Holly Hunter, and Elias Koteas. Whilst the depiction of sex and violence in films has often been the main focal point for the British Board of Film Classification’s decision making, never have the two been combined more provocatively in mainstream cinema as in the […]
Extreme Cinema – Baise-moi (2000)
Baise-moi, 2000. Directed by Virginie Despentes and Coralie. Starring Karen Lancaume and Raffaëla Anderson. Baise-moi caused a great deal of controversy on its initial release in France when its original 16 and Over rating was raised to the rare X certificate by the French government in the wake of protests from the far right pro-family […]
Extreme Cinema – A Clockwork Orange (1971)
A Clockwork Orange, 1971. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Starring Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, and Warren Clarke. In a future British society law and order has completely broken down allowing gangs of youths to roam the streets looking for trouble. Arrested for murder, gang leader Alex Delarge is reconditioned and set free into this […]