comPOSERS: The Movie Score Podcast

This week on comPOSERS we're being nice...until it's time to not be nice. Join us as we rip the throat right out of Michael Kamen's score for the longest bar fight ever set to film!

Everybody shut up, the movie's about to start! This week's special is all about the nostalgia-inducing film studio intros you've heard a million times over the years before your favourite movies. Join us as we attach composers to all the major studio intros and pick our top 5 favourites. Feel free to use this movie studio compilation as a refresher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaOmp140NvU

Join us as we crawl through a river of shit in this week's episode on The Shawshank Redemption and its score by Thomas Newman.

On this week's episode, we're ready for our close-up with the dark and depressing side of 1950's Hollywood. Join us as we celebrate the 70th anniversary of the classic film 'Sunset Boulevard' and its score by Franz 'Franky Wax' Waxman.

Every gun makes its own tune this week on comPOSERS, as we honour the late and VERY great Ennio Morricone and his transcendent score for The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Now which one of us is "the ugly"? 

We're going to need a bigger podcast this week, as we're joined by special guest and Jaws expert Cousin Alex to talk John Williams' iconic score for Steven Spielberg's unlikely hit. 

This week we look back at some of our many scorecard regrets and attempt to fix the numbers for Pirates of the Caribbean, Vertigo and the recent Star Trek special.  Oh, and we also celebrate a huge achievement with Uncle Hans in a quick and useless breaking news segment.

Set your phasers to FUN because it's time for another boozy Star Trek episode. This week we're badly going where many podcasts have gone before as we break down our favourite Star Trek TV themes, from the 1996 original classic through to 'Peekard'. May the force be with you.

This week we continue Summer Blockbuster Month by looking into another seldom discussed score, because All Scores Matter. Join us as we discuss Bad Boys 2 and its score by Trevor Rabin (and various musicians), a soundtrack so lousy that it MIGHT just be our lowest rated yet.

On today's breaking news episode we celebrate the life of the great Italian composer Ennio Morricone and share our picks for some of his great cues that aren't The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly. RIP Maestro.

On this week's episode we drink our faces off while discussing Face/Off. Join us for our first episode of Summer Blockbuster Month as we break down John Powell's very Remote Control Productions-y, synthetic action score.

On this week's episode we return to a time when action movies were basically rated x but still marketed to kids. A line about cops being bad goes here. Enjoy Robocop!

This week we're back in the saddle with Marc Shaiman to discuss his score for City Slickers, a film about 3 miserable white dudes from the city approaching a mid life crisis. Something we can relate to.

And now for something completely different; us doing an episode involving a composer that isn't white. Join us in the Series 5 opener as we discuss A.R. Rahman's tense, guitar-driven soundtrack from the film '127 Hours'.

On the Series 4 Retrospective we go against our natural instincts and do the unspeakable; work together as a team . Join us as trivia host Katrina tests our knowledge of all the Series 4 films to see which we know best, on... 'WHO WANTS TO BE A HUNDREDAIRE'. 

In this week's episode, we cover a listener request for James Cameron's "Avatar", composed by James Horner. Feels kind of weird to do our regular comedy podcast when the entire world is on fire, and this movie is an unfortunate parallel to a lot of the horrible shit happening right now. So we wanted to include a list of places you can learn more about anti-racism, and support marginalized groups a...

Of all the episodes in all the podcasts in all the world, you walk into ours. Today we talk about a film that takes place in a bar because we miss going to them and we're stuck inside, sort of like how the folks in Casablanca are stuck there, but without the Gestapo. Join us we discuss Max Steiner's music from the 1942 classic 'Casablanca'. 

This week we sit down with Blade Runner (and all other things pop culture) guru Brent Chittenden to discuss the 1982 classic sci-film and its lush, synthesizer score by 'Vangelis', a dude who looks like an old Greek philosopher from 500 BC.

On this special episode we score a "significant others on the podcast" hat-trick by welcoming Elspeth "LP" McRobb to talk about the Old Hollywood-inspired music of the Japanese animation film studio, 'Studio Ghibli'.

On this week's episode, we're watching the film known to Homer Simpson as, "The Bus That Wouldn't Slow Down". Climb aboard, this week we're discussing 'Speed' and Mark Mancina's weirdly impactful soundtrack.

On this week's episode we attempt to honour Mother's Day but end up just talking about sports. But at least it's women's sports! Join us and our special guest Gavin Whitehead (the bringer of beer) as we discuss Hans Zimmer's score for the 1992 baseball classic, 'A League of Their Own'.

May the 3rd be with you! Close enough. Today we celebrate tomorrow's Star Wars Day by looking into Michael Giacchino's highly entertaining score for 'Rogue One', the first ever Star Wars score not composed by John Williams.

Against all odds we've gone a whole year doing this comPOSERS podcast thing. To celebrate our 1 year anniversary we look back at a year's worth of scorecards to determine the 10 Best and 10 Worst film scores so far, and who's to blame (Alex) for bringing them to the podcast (Alex) and the ill-considered ratings (Alex) we gave them.

On this week's episode we don our trenchcoats and designer shades and enter the strange and terrifying world of 1999. Join us as we enter The Matrix to discuss Don Davis' adequate score, the film's very 90's techno music, and its SUPER DEEP script.

This week we review the soundtrack to 'Honey, I Shrunk the Kids', a score credited to James 'Horny' Horner. But really, you should be thanking Raymond Scott, Danny Elfman, Dave Grusin, Aaron Copland, and Nino Rota for this score. This is the most 'Horny' has screwed over film composers since he banged Goldsmith's daughter.