Posts tagged Marco Beltrami
DOCUMENTARY REVIEW: Score: A Film Music Documentary
DOCUMENTARY REVIEW: Score: A Film Music Documentary

This writer is an unabashed film music lover.  I owned more film score CDs than ones of popular music back in the day and that ratio hasn’t changed with digital media.  Hell, I wrote a long-form editorial three years ago proclaiming film music as an improvement of the Mozart Effect for babies and children which led to a playlist afterwards that I still use to this day.  I am a mark for what Score: A Film Music Documentary was selling and many of the names and talents featured in the film are found on that personal playlist.

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2017, 4 STARS, Chicago Film Festival, DOCUMENTARY REVIEW, Film Festival, MOVIE REVIEW, Video on DemandDon ShanahanMusic Box Theatre2017, documentary review, Documentary filmmaking, documentary, documentary commentary, Score: A Film Music Documentary, Score, Matt Schrader, Hans Zimmer, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Nine Inch Nails, Danny Elfman, James Horner, Alfred Newman, Bernard Herrmann, Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire, Max Steiner, King Kong, Charlie Chaplin, James Cameron, David Arnold, James Bond theme, James Bond films, Heitor Pereira, Despicable Me 2, Despicable Me, Smurfs, The Smurfs, Marco Beltrami, 3:10 to Yuma, Brian Tyler, Marvel Films, Marvel Cinematic Universe, John Debney, The Passion of the Christ, Leonard Maltin, John Burlingame, Mozart Effect, Ultimate Playlist of Movie Music Lullabies, film music, Film music, film scores, movie scores, Movie music, Chicago Critics Film Festival, 5th Chicago Critics Film Festival, life lessons, life lessons from film, life lessons from documentaries, film review, movie review, film commentary, movie commentary, Every Movie Has a Lesson, Don Shanahan, Donald Shanahan, 2017 Summer MoviesComment
ADVANCE MOVIE REVIEW: Logan
ADVANCE MOVIE REVIEW: Logan

With stunning brush strokes soaked in pathos and blood, "Logan" taps into a cask of comic book scotch that been reserved to reach maturity.  This is, by a country mile, not only the best film of the “X-Men” franchise, but the best of 20th Century Fox’s entire catalog of Marvel Films.  Presented as an analogy, “Logan” is to comic book films what “Unforgiven” was to westerns.

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2017, 5 STARS, ADVANCE MOVIE REVIEW, MOVIE REVIEWDon ShanahanKerasotes ShowPlace ICON X2017, 2017 Winter Movies, Logan, Wolverine, The Wolverine, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, X-Men franchise, X-Men, Marvel Films, Marvel, Marvel Comics, Fox Marvel Universe, Hugh Jackman, James Howlett, Patrick Stewart, Professor X, Charles Xavier, Unforgiven, Old Man Logan, X-23, X-23: Innocence Lost, Stephen Merchant, Caliban, Dafne Keen, Laura Kinney, Richard E. Grant, Boyd Holbrook, Marco Beltrami, Deadpool, James Mangold, Cop Land, Girl Interrupted, 3:10 to Yuma, Walk the Line, Shane, Alan Ladd, movie review, film review, movie commentary, film commentary, comic book films, comic book movie, western themes, life lessons, life lessons from movies, life lessons from film, Life lessons from movies, Life lessons, Don Shanahan, Donald Shanahan, Every Movie Has a LessonComment
MOVIE REVIEW: The Shallows
MOVIE REVIEW: The Shallows

“The Shallows” gives Blake Lively the chance to not only prove she’s more than a Hollywood hot body, but also one-up her husband Ryan Reynolds in survival film department next to his little 2010 gem “Buried.”  Prominent click bait out there will have you believe that “The Shallows” is the best shark movie since “Jaws.”  That bold statement is a bit of overrated hyperbole.  “Open Water” and “Deep Blue Sea” might have something to say about that.  However, there more than enough impressive rush and originality from “The Shallows” to stand out in a crowded summer marketplace of retreads and sequels.

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2016, MOVIE REVIEW, 3 STARSDon ShanahanAMC Yorktown Premium Cinemas2016, Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds, The Shallows, Jaume Collet-Serra, Anthony Jaswinski, All Is Lost, Buried, Open Wate, Jaws, Deep Blue Sea, Flavio Labiano, Marco Beltrami, Lord Howe Island, Shark movies, movie review, film review, movie commentary, film commentary, Every Movie Has a Lesson, Donald Shanahan, Don Shanahan, life lessons from films, Life lessons, life lessons, life lessons from movies, life lessons from filmComment
MOVIE REVIEW: The Homesman
MOVIE REVIEW: The Homesman

We men can’t resist a good western.  On paper, the new film opening in Chicago this week, “The Homesman,” starring and directed by Tommy Lee Jones could sell tickets to us men just by his presence alone.  His gruff persona is perfect for the genre in every way.  The “guy film” potential and exterior stops there at Tommy Lee Jones.  “The Homesman,” adapted from the novel of the same name from notable western writer Glendon Swarthout dives deeper, darker, and fervently towards a different perspective.

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2014, 3 STARS, MOVIE REVIEW, Video on DemandDon ShanahanThe Homesman, Tommy Lee Jones, Hilary Swank, John Lithgow, Mirando Otto, Sonja Richter, Grace Gummer, Rodrigo Prieto, Marco Beltrami, Westerns, Western genre, The Homesman film review, The Homesman movie review, film review, film commentary, movie review, movie commentary, life lessons from films, life lessons, life lessons from movies, life lessons from film, Donald Shanahan, Don Shanahan, Every Movie Has a Lesson, Cannes Film Festival, Palme d'Or, Video On DemandComment