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Samuel Sim’s original score for BBC’s Emma (2009) is one of the most exemplary period drama scores to exist, and one that is constantly circulating on replay here. (As is … Continue Reading Music Monday: BBC ‘Emma’ (Original Score) by Samuel Sim
Once autumn comes around, it is time to break out The Blasting Company’s Over the Garden Wall soundtrack and immerse yourself into the season.
One of the most alluring qualities of BBC’s North and South is its moving score, composed by Martin Phipps. You may be familiar with the British composer’s work. Since the … Continue Reading Music Monday: BBC’s ‘North and South’ (Original Score) by Martin Phipps
Gunpowder Milkshake is easily one of the most enjoyable films I watched this year, and its companion original score composed by Frank Ilfman is right alongside it as impeccable. Frank … Continue Reading Music Monday: ‘Gunpowder Milkshake’ (Original Score) by Frank Ilfman
Jungle Cruise is officially out in theaters and on Disney Plus with Premiere Access, and we’re obsessed. James Newton Howard’s original score for Disney‘s latest film is an adventurous joyride … Continue Reading Music Monday: ‘Jungle Cruise’ (Original Score) by James Newton Howard
Daniel Pemberton has composed some of our favorite scores in the past and with the news of Enola Holmes II coming, it’s time to revisit the impeccable score from Netflix’s … Continue Reading Music Monday: ‘Enola Holmes’ (Original Score) by Daniel Pemberton
Oh my Saints! Talk about an original score that is packed with a lot to unpack. I wouldn’t know where to begin even if I was told where to begin. … Continue Reading Music Monday: ‘Shadow and Bone’ (Original Score) by Joseph Trapanese and The Budapest Art Orchestra
It’s Monday and we’re back with another original score—this one following one of my favorite movies ever The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, which I’ve spoken about a … Continue Reading Music Monday: ‘The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society’ (Original Score) by Alexandra Harwood
Welcome to another emotionally charged period drama original score. This week we’re throwing it back to Joe Wright’s Atonement, original score by Dario Marianelli. There are a lot of mixed … Continue Reading Music Monday: ‘Atonement’ (Original Score) by Dario Marianelli
When Warner Bros. decided to bring in Joss Whedon to take over directing for Justice League, the film lost not only its director, but its original composer, Tom Holkenborg. Also … Continue Reading Music Monday: Zack Snyder’s ‘Justice League’ (Original Score) by Tom Holkenborg
It’s another Monday, but we’re back with another original score that never ceases to stun us. While Sanditon as a series may have ended with the type of heartbreak that … Continue Reading Music Monday: ‘Sanditon’ (Original Score) by Ruth Barrett
Welcome back to another throwback score–no one’s gotten tired of these of yet, have they? Because we’re loving it. Especially since most of these throwback scores are ones we still … Continue Reading Music Monday: ‘Cinderella’ 2015 (Original Score) by Patrick Doyle
We’re back to discussing original scores with what might be the one score that sparked our obsession most easily. A 14-year-old middle schooler (me) watches this movie for the first … Continue Reading Music Monday: ‘Pride and Prejudice’ (Original Score) Music by Dario Marianelli Performed by Jean-Yves Thibaudet
One of us is late to the party and has finally started watching The Witcher. And unsurprisingly, since we are all obsessed with scores, this one needed to be highlighted … Continue Reading Music Monday: ‘The Witcher’ (Original Score) by Sonya Belousova and Giona Ostinelli
Say what you will about Autumn de Wilde’s 2020 adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma, I personally adore it. (And Emma is my favorite Austen novel, so yes, I’m generally pickier, … Continue Reading Music Monday: ‘Emma’ 2020 (Original Score) by Isobel-Waller Bridge and David Schweitzer
It’s a new year, but it’s the return of former categories. It’s about time we start talking about music again especially when in this house, original scores are our everything. … Continue Reading Music Monday: ‘Bridgerton’ Season 1 (Original Score) by Kris Bowers