Today, the Christian church traditionally celebrates All Saint's Day.  The hymn "For All the Saints, Who From Their Labors Rest...

I hope you have been enjoying a joyful Christmas.  It's been so quiet and lovely here -- went to church in the morning, baked a pie afte...

I think The Monuments Men  (2014) is a lovely movie, if you can ever call a movie about war "lovely." It feels like a throwback t...

Yesterday -- October 4, 2023 -- was the 100th anniversary of the birth of Charlton Heston!  I meant to finish and post this yesterday, in ce...

A Song is Born  (1948) is a remake of Ball of Fire  (1941), and both were directed by Howard Hawks!  Or, rather, they're both based on t...

Samantha at Bookshire has awarded me the Sunshine Blogger Award!  Thank you, Samantha! The rules: Thank the blogger who nominated you in th...

Mark Knopfler's score for The Princess Bride  (1987) is as subtly off-kilter as everything else in the movie. Fairy tale motifs get twi...

For nearly seventy years, the actual motion picture soundtrack for the wonderful Christmas movie White Christmas  (1954 -- my review here ) ...

I have owned this soundtrack since I was in college. I first saw Anastasia (1997) on Thanksgiving break during my freshman year of college...

I, Hamlette, love westerns. You probably know that by now, since I just finished co-hosting Legends of Western Cinema Week for the... fourt...

The soundtrack for Joss Whedon's tragically short-lived TV show Firefly  (2002-03) is a lot of fun. Composed mainly by Greg Edmonson, t...

Way back when this movie came out, my brother and I pooled our money and bought the soundtrack together because we loved the movie so much. ...

Today I'm going to share one of my absolute favorite soundtracks with you, that for Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2...

I almost didn't go see Hercules (2014) in the theater.  I tend to enjoy Dwayne Johnson's movies, but I don't know a lot about t...

Today is John Williams's 90th birthday!  To celebrate, I am here today to discuss one of the coolest soundtracks ever. Ever. It's ...

John Williams is probably the only composer whose music is just as familiar to my kids as to my parents.  His career has lasted since the la...

I have such fond memories of this movie. Watching it for the first time over Thanksgiving break my freshman year of college. Loving it so ...

Patrick Doyle is one of my favorite film composers, and he definitely did not disappoint me here. A movie crammed with lush, vibrant detail ...

I've reviewed several episodes of the delightful Granada television productions of Sherlock Holmes cases starring the masterful Jeremy B...