‘Music from the Star Wars Saga’ album review

What would the Star Wars franchise be without John Williams? 83 years young, and he’s still the musical Force of the Star Wars cinematic process, surrounding and binding together the galaxy of acting, dialogue, effects both practical and special, in a grand orchestral sound inspired by Erich Korngold and the Golden Age of adventure cinema; … >

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‘Doctor Who’ Season 8 soundtrack album review

Listen! Question: Why do we talk to ourselves when we know we’re alone? Answer: Because we haven’t had the Doctor Who Season 8 soundtrack to keep our pudding-brains busy. That, and there may be a race of unseeable entities watching our ever move. But mostly, y’know, the soundtrack thing. Always a treat for a Whovian’s … >

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In The Flesh

‘In the Flesh’ soundtrack album review

Here’s a nice reminder that one of the BBC’s best BAFTA-winning shows hasn’t been recommissioned: the soundtrack to that BAFTA-winning BBC show. Sorry. Sorry. That’s too jaundiced a way of looking at things, and certainly in respect to a fine soundtrack. All you Rotter fans, don’t think of this as a reminder of what you’ve … >

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‘Utopia’ Season 2 soundtrack album review

Channel 4 really went straight for the spoon when it came to Utopia‘s fate, didn’t they? Skipping the chilli or bleach, they just scooped Dennis Kelly’s dark dystopian drama right out of the future schedules, never to be seen again. Some torturers have no finesse. So while we don’t have a third season to look … >

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‘An Adventure in Space and Time’ soundtrack album review

Now this is a real treat. Edmund Butt’s score to Mark Gatiss’ terrific Doctor Who drama. You all remember An Adventure in Space and Time, don’t you? It’s the 90 minutes last year that made several generations of Who fans get all moist-eyed and nostalgic, some for a time they weren’t even alive in.

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‘Sherlock’ Series 3 soundtrack album review

Pass that popcorn-filled Deerstalker, would you? Because with that filmic running length, a principal duo of Hollywood stars, and the fact that each 90-minute feature is advertised with the hashtaggable anticipation of your average blockbuster, every episode of Sherlock is less a TV drama and more a movie that has escaped into your living room. So it stands to reason that it should be given a fittingly filmic score.

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‘Music from the Iron Man Trilogy’ soundtrack review

You don’t have a costly suit of cutting-edge armour, you don’t have a robot butler, and chances are you don’t even have a cool beard like Tony Stark (though really, if you do, good job sir). But fortunately lacking any of the aforementioned items doesn’t preclude you from enjoying the same music that Iron Man himself jets around to.

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