This much-anticipated, expanded release of Jerry Goldsmith's classic score for Robert Wise's Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) was certainly worth the wait. Featuring eight previously unreleased tracks, the disc offers 65 minutes of score excerpts presented in chronological order. Perhaps his most famous effort, Star Trek is as close to a continuous music drama as Goldsmith has ...
Alexander Courage may have given the sprawling Star Trek franchise its signature musical fanfare, but for two decades it's been composer Jerry Goldsmith who's periodically infused the film and TV cycles with their crucial musical heart and soul or, as in the case of this rousing masterwork, their fire and fury. Giving nearly free reign to his notably modernist muse, the veteran has turned ...
The seventh instalment in the on-going movie series, David Carson's Star Trek: Generations (1994) is the first film to feature the characters of The Next Generation along with the original cast. This chapter sees Captain Kirk passing the torch over to the newly anointed Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart), who finds himself entangled with a powerful gravimetric force at the end ...
With George Lucas' Star Wars Episode II: Attack Of The Clones impressively showcasing rich drama beyond the customary eye-popping spectacle, long-time franchise collaborator John Williams' score follows suit with a rewarding and compelling mix of tragedy-tinged romance and epic action, enveloped in a pervading air of approaching doom. Dispensing with The Phantom Menace's exuberant, ...
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is the third, and possibly the best, book in the phenomenally successful, award-winning Harry Potter series by JK Rowling. After just about surviving yet another summer with the dreadful Dursleys, the arrival of Aunt Marge is the final straw and, in a fit of anger, Harry casts a spell on her, causing her to blow up like a balloon. He fully ...