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JADE – James Horner
MOVIE MUSIC UK CLASSICS Original Review by Craig Lysy Weintraub Entertainment purchased the script for Jade from the famous writer Joe Eszterhas, who had gained earlier acclaim and commercial success...
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THE HOMECOMING: A CHRISTMAS STORY/RASCALS AND ROBBERS: THE SECRET ADVENTURES...
MOVIE MUSIC UK CLASSICS Original Review by Craig Lysy The Homecoming: A Christmas Story is an iconic television movie that was adapted from an Earl Hamner Jr. story starred Patricia Neal and Richard...
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TESTAMENT – James Horner
MOVIE MUSIC UK CLASSICS Original Review by Craig Lysy Testament was adapted from a short story “The Last Testament” written by Carol Armen. Originally conceived as a TV movie, Paramount executives were...
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THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN – James Horner
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton Despite it only being ten years since Sam Raimi brought the latest incarnation of Spider-Man to the silver screen with Tobey Maguire in 2002, Sony Pictures have...
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IN COUNTRY – James Horner
MOVIE MUSIC UK CLASSICS Original Review by Craig Lysy For years Director Norman Jewison had eschewed making a film about the Vietnam War. Yet with over a decade passing since the fall of Saigon in 1975...
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WOLF TOTEM – James Horner
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton It’s been a long 2½ years, since the summer of 2012 and The Amazing Spider-Man, to wait for a new James Horner score. In the intervening period he has had at least...
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James Horner, 1953-2015
Composer James Horner has been killed in a plane crash. Horner died when the single engine S312 Tucano plane he was piloting crashed in the Los Padres National Forest near Santa Barbara, California. He...
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COCOON – James Horner
THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton Cocoon was one of the major box-office successes of 1985, a winning combination of science fiction adventure and family drama directed by Ron...
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STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN – James Horner
MOVIE MUSIC UK CLASSICS Original Review by Craig Lysy James Horner won my heart in 1982 with his score to Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and he quickly became my favorite composer. His tragic and...
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STAR TREK III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK – James Horner
MOVIE MUSIC UK CLASSICS Original Review by Craig Lysy Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan achieved tremendous critical and commercial success, and so Paramount quickly authorized the making of a third...
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THE JOURNEY OF NATTY GANN – James Horner
THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton Following his breakout year in 1982, when he wrote music for the box-office smashes Star Trek II and 48 HRS., James Horner spent the next several...
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COMMANDO – James Horner
THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone were cinematic rivals throughout the 1980s, going toe-to-toe through a series of increasingly...
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WHERE THE RIVER RUNS BLACK – James Horner
THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton In 1986, despite having achieved a great deal of popularity and success for his large scale orchestral scores, James Horner entered what many call...
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ALIENS – James Horner
THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi horror masterpiece Alien was a watershed landmark, a seminal film that forever changed the genre, so it was something of...
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THE NAME OF THE ROSE – James Horner
THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton The Name of the Rose is a murder mystery with a difference. Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, and adapted from the enormously popular 1980 novel by...
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THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN – James Horner and Simon Franglen
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton The death of James Horner in June 2015, in a plane crash at the age of 61, was one of the most shocking events to hit the film music community in many, many years....
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AN AMERICAN TAIL – James Horner
THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton In the wake of the success of The Secret of NIMH in 1982, master animator Don Bluth began a collaboration with Steven Spielberg and Universal...
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PROJECT X – James Horner
THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton Project X was a genre-defying film – part action, part sci-fi, part-comedy, part drama – directed by Jonathan Kaplan from a screenplay by Lawrence...
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WILLOW – James Horner
THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton Willow is a high fantasy film, which takes well-loved genre tropes from Lord of the Rings and elsewhere, and casts them in an adventure filled with...
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RED HEAT – James Horner
THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton The action comedy buddy-cop movie reached new heights in the summer of 1988 with the release of Red Heat, which was a vehicle for the increasing box...
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