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October FSMO Is Live!
Posted By Jon Kaplan 10/6/2025 - 4:00 AM

The October edition of FSM ONLINE is now live for your reading and listening pleasure. This month’s cover story is THE TOP 25 FILM SCORES OF THE QUARTER CENTURY, PART 1. Also this issue are a discussion with JOHN LUNN about his work on the closing chapter in the DOWNTON ABBEY saga, THE GRAND FINALE; BENJAMIN WALLFISCH horrifies listeners with THE CONJUR

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Film Score Friday 10/3/25
Posted By Scott Bettencourt 10/2/2025 - 10:00 PM
The latest releases announced by La-La Land are reissues of John Morris' score to the 1985 cult favorite CLUE, and Maurice Jarre's score for director Adrian Lyne's mind-bending 1990 thriller JACOB'S LADDER.


CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK

The Albert Glasser Collection Vol. 5: Science Fiction: Atomic Mutation II 
- Albert Glasser - Dragon's Domain 
Black Sunday
 - John Williams - La-La Land 
How to Train Your Dragon [2025] - John Powell - Mondo 
The Island
 - Steve Jablonsky - La-La Land 
The Monkey
 - Edo Van Breeman - Rambling (import) 
Thunderball - John Barry - La-La Land 


IN THEATERS TODAY

Anenome - Bobby Krlic
Are We Good? - Marlon Lang
Bone Lake - Roque Banos, Ben Cherney
Coyotes - Brittany Allen
Fairyland - Michael Penn
Girl Climber - Mark A. Crawford
Good Boy - Sam Boase-Miller
Killing Faith - Will Blair, Brooke Blair
One Big Happy Family - Joseph LoDuca
The Smashing Machine - Nala Sinephro 

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Film Score Friday 9/26/25
Posted By Scott Bettencourt 9/25/2025 - 10:00 PM
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK

Jurassic World: Rebirth - Alexandre Desplat - Mutant 
Superman - John Murphy, David Fleming - Mondo 


IN THEATERS TODAY

Bau: Artist at War - John Coda
Dead of Winter - Volker Bertelmann
Eleanor the Great - Dustin O'Halloran
Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie - Stephanie Economou
My Sunshine - Sato Ryosei
One Battle After Another - Jonny Greenwood
Plainclothes - Emily Wells
Predators - Tim Hecker
The Strangers: Chapter 2 - Justin Caine Burnett
The Summer Book - Hania Rani 

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Aisle Seat 9-23: AIRPORT, NIGHT OF THE JUGGLER, SUPERMAN Soar on 4K UHD
Posted By Andy Dursin 9/22/2025 - 10:00 PM
Producer Ross Hunter’s box-office smash ignited a whole genre of “disaster movies” that followed throughout the 1970s, yet there’s something very “50’s” about the original AIRPORT (137 mins., 1970, G), which makes its 4K UHD debut this month from Kino Lorber along with its three sequels.
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Film Score Friday 9/19/25
Posted By Scott Bettencourt 9/18/2025 - 10:00 PM
The latest releases from Kronos are Ronald Stein's score for Roger Corman's 1957 sci-fi/horror film NOT OF THIS EARTH, and Albert Glasser's score for the 1953 historical drama CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH AND POCAHONTAS.


The latest CDs from Buysoundtrax and its related labels are - the first release of Harry Lubin's music from the second season of the original THE OUTER LIMITSTHE QUIET EARTH: THE FILM MUSIC OF JOHN CHARLES, featuring the composer's music from that post-apocalyptic drama as well as his scores for Iris and Utu; and re-releases of two older re-recordings - Fred Steiner's re-recording of Max Steiner's classic KING KONG, and Miklos Rozsa's own LP recording of his wonderful score for Nicholas Meyer's TIME AFTER TIME.


CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK

Cobra-Kai: The Final Season - Leo Birenberg, Zach Robinson - Mutant 
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew - Mick Giacchino - Mutant  
Tron: Ares - Nine Inch Nails - Null/Interscope  

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Film Score Friday 9/12/25
Posted By Scott Bettencourt 9/11/2025 - 10:00 PM
The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced this year's Creative Arts Emmy winners in the following music categories:

OUTSTANDING MUSIC COMPOSITION FOR A LIMITED OR ANTHOLOGY SERIES, MOVIE OR SPECIAL (ORIGINAL DRAMATIC SCORE)
THE PENGUIN: After Hours - Mick Giacchino
 
OUTSTANDING MUSIC COMPOSITION FOR A SERIES (ORIGINAL DRAMATIC SCORE)
SEVERANCE: Cold Harbor - Theodore Shapiro
 
OUTSTANDING MUSIC COMPOSITION FOR A DOCUMENTARY SERIES OR SPECIAL (ORIGINAL DRAMATIC SCORE)
CHEF'S TABLE - Duncan Thum, David Bertok
 
OUTSTANDING MAIN TITLE THEME MUSIC
THE WHITE LOTUS - Cristobal Tapia de Veer
 
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL MUSIC AND LYRICS
THE BOYS: We'll Keep the Red Flag Flying Here: "Let's Put the Christ Back in Christmas" - Music and Lyrics by Christopher Lennertz
 
OUTSTANDING MUSIC DIRECTION
THE APPLE MUSIC SUPER BOWL LIX HALFTIME SHOW STARRING KENDRICK LAMAR - Kendrick Lamar, Tony Russell
 
OUTSTANDING MUSIC SUPERVISION
THE STUDIO: The Promotion - Gabe Hilfer

CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale - John Lunn - Decca 

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Aisle Seat 9-9: Season 29 Premiere!
Posted By Andy Dursin 9/8/2025 - 10:00 PM
Michael Caine’s sleek, edgy performance as Jack Carter was the defining element of Mike Hodges’s highly-regarded – if not altogether classic – 1971 British gangster thriller GET CARTER (112 mins., R; Warner Archive). The movie, after receiving a stellar UHD from the BFI a year ago, now comes to the 4K format in the U.S. thanks to Warner Archive, reprising that disc’s highly detailed Dolby Vision HDR master.
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Film Score Friday 9/5/25
Posted By Scott Bettencourt 9/4/2025 - 10:00 PM
La-La Land has announced three new soundtrack CD releases due this month: a two-disc, 60th anniversary release of THUNDERBALL, John Barry's third James Bond score, featuring the complete score, the original LP sequencing, and both the Dionne Warwick and Shirley Bassey renditions of the unused alternate theme song, "Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang;" a remastered re-issue of John Williams' exciting score (arguably his most Goldsmith-ian work) for John Frankenheimer's 1977 terrorism thriller BLACK SUNDAY, starring Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern and Marthe Keller (and the last score Williams composed before the release of Star Wars changed everything); and an expanded, two-disc, 20th anniversary release of Steve Jablonsky's score for the 2005 sci-fi action thriller THE ISLAND, directed by Michael Bay, starring Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson (and with a storyline reminiscent of 70s B-movie Parts: The Clonus Horror).


The latest release from Caldera is the score for Hector Babenco's 1998 film FOOLISH HEART, composed by Zbigniew Preisner (Damage, The Double Life of Veronique).


CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK

The Albert Glasser Collection Vol. 6
 - Albert Glasser - Dragon's Domain 
Anna, quel particolare piacere - Luciano Michelini - Beat
Christopher Young: The Shorts
 - Christopher Young - Dragon's Domain  
Gerald Fried: The Crime Dramas
 - Gerald Fried - Dragon's Domain 
The Jerry Fielding Collection Vol. 1
 - Jerry Fielding - Dragon's Domain 
Oceano - Ennio Morricone - Quartet
Queimada (Burn!)
 - Ennio Morricone - Quartet
Questa Specie d'Amore
 - Ennio Morricone - Quartet
Revolver
 - Ennio Morricone - Quartet 

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September FSMO Is Live!
Posted By Jon Kaplan 9/4/2025 - 3:00 AM

The September edition of FSM ONLINE is now live for your reading and listening pleasure. This month’s cover story is ALIEN: JEFF, an interview with Jeff Russo about his work on the score for ALIEN: EARTH, which conjures material from Jerry Goldsmith and James Horner. Also this issue are a discussion with JAMES EVERINGHAM, who collaborates with Hans Zimm

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The Passage (Michael J. Lewis)
Posted By Tor Harbin 9/1/2025 - 10:00 PM

                            Cold Comfort

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Giuseppe Becce died (1973)
James Horner begins recording his score for 48 HRS. (1982)
James Horner begins recording his score for Jack the Bear (1992)
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Nelson Riddle died (1985)
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