Tom Jolliffe on the timeless work of the late, great Ennio Morricone… Alongside the visual imagery in a film, the accompanying music has an ability to work in perfect unison to boost the emotional impact of a sequence. Sometimes a score can enhance a scene, or the music overall can take a picture up a […]
R.I.P. Ennio Morricone (1928 – 2020)
We start the week with some very sad news, as legendary Italian film composer Ennio Morricone has passed away aged 91, having suffered complications from a fall. Known as ‘The Maestro’, Morricone worked on over 500 films during his illustrious career and is perhaps best known for his collaborations with fellow Italian and former schoolmate […]
UPDATE: Ennio Morricone denies Quentin Tarantino criticism as Playboy admits inaccuracies in interview
UPDATE: After originally standing by its article, Playboy has now released a statement confirming that Ennio Morricone did not criticise Quentin Tarantino, and that: “based on the information now at our disposal, we must unfortunately assume that the words spoken in the interview have, in part, been reproduced incorrectly. We would like to express our regret […]
The Week in Movies – Batman solo movie! Suicide Squad 2 in development! Star Wars Episode VIII titles and more
The Week in Movies discusses the last seven days in cinema – including the solo Batman movie currently in development, reports of Suicide Squad 2 already confirmed, two rumoured titles for Star Wars: Episode VIII and much, much more… The Week in Movies is an excerpt from the weekly Flickering Myth Super Newsletter. Subscribe here to […]
Why Ennio Morricone’s Oscar was this year’s most significant win
Sean Wilson assesses the veteran composer’s massively overdue Academy Awards success… So, the Oscars are all done for another year, the speeches have been tossed into the nearest recycling bin and the red carpet has been rolled away. Truth be told, does anybody really care? The Academy Awards, as win any awards ceremony, are utterly […]
The Week in Movies – first look at Star Wars: Episode VIII, Snyder’s Justice League in doubt and more…
The Week in Movies discusses the last seven days in cinema – including the first look at Star Wars: Episode VIII, reports that Warner Bros. are worried about Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Zack Snyder’s Justice League, Deadpool breaking more box office records and much, much more… The Week in Movies is an excerpt […]
Ennio Morricone to score Quentin Tarantino’s next movie
Having bagged an Oscar nomination (his sixth) for his work on The Hateful Eight, legendary Italian composer Ennio Morricone has revealed that he’s set to collaborate once again with Quentin Tarantino on the filmmaker’s next offering… whatever that may be. “Tarantino has already told me that there will be a next movie that we are […]
7 badass tracks from Ennio Morricone’s The Hateful Eight score
Sean Wilson breaks down the Oscar nominated score for Quentin Tarantino’s blood-splattered epic… Proud recipient of an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe, Ennio Morricone’s spine-tingling score for Quentin Tarantino’s Western opus The Hateful Eight is rich with a sense of menace and paranoia. Morricone’s first Western soundtrack in over 30 years is also the first commissioned […]
And the winners of the 73rd Golden Globes are…
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association never ceases to surprise and go against the grain. Only a select few categories in film lined up with the predictions of professional analysts, while all of television was completely out of left field. That’s not to say anything here isn’t well deserved. Except for The Martian anyway, which was […]
The Week in Movies – Star Wars: The Force Awakens reactions! Tarantino slams Disney! Spider-Man in new Marvel film? and more…
The Week in Movies discusses the last seven days in cinema – including the reactions to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Quentin Tarantino accusing Disney of extortion, Spider-Man potentially crawling into another Marvel movie and much, much more… The Week in Movies is an excerpt from the weekly Flickering Myth Super Newsletter. Subscribe here to get […]