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Throwback Thursday: Ratatouille
Every Throwback Thursday, I randomly pull out from my desk cabinet--with my eyes closed--a movie ticket I saved. Then I discuss the movie on the ticket and maybe a little bit of its score, which might...
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Thanks to AFOS shuffle mode, I wonder what a Batman sandwich or a Star Trek...
Even though it can occasionally be a hassle to try to keep track of 17 hours and 28 minutes of music, which is the average amount of music I calculated from the current total track lengths of the eight...
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Before its license to thrill was revoked by Netflix again, Never Say Never...
(Photo source: New York Times)Have you ever heard score music that's so terrible during a certain movie that its trailer music sounds like Beethoven by comparison? Michel Legrand, whose jazzy and very...
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Throwback Thursday: Selma
Every Throwback Thursday, I randomly pull out from my desk cabinet--with my eyes closed--a movie ticket I saved. Then I discuss the movie on the ticket and maybe a little bit of its score, which might...
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When enjoyable scores are attached to terrible movies, or why I feel kind of...
I don't care for Madonna and her cultural-appropriating ass, but I've always liked the music of William Orbit. The Drake-scaring pop star's hit single from the summer of 1999, "Beautiful Stranger," a...
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Throwback Thursday: The Artist
Every Throwback Thursday, I randomly pull out from my desk cabinet--with my eyes closed--a movie ticket I saved. Then I discuss the movie on the ticket and maybe a little bit of its score, which might...
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"Far East style with the spirit of Wild West": Familiarize yourself with the...
Like I've said before, I love it when the worlds of film or TV score music and hip-hop collide. One of my favorite of those collisions is the work of the late Japanese producer Nujabes (pronounced...
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Throwback Thursday: The Signal (2014) (with guest blogger Hardeep Aujla from...
Throwback Thursday is a forum for discussing past or present films we've paid to see, whether they contain score music that's currently in rotation on AFOS or don't, but it's a forum not just for...
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Penny not from heaven: The welcome return of Penny Dreadful
Penny dreadfuls, a.k.a. penny bloods, were lurid supernatural or crime stories that were published in weekly installments in 19th-century England. In a Showtime featurette about the first season of...
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Throwback Thursday: Kung Fu Killer (2014)
Every Throwback Thursday, I randomly pull out from my desk cabinet--with my eyes closed--a movie ticket I saved. Then I discuss the movie on the ticket and maybe a little bit of its score, which might...
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"Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week: Pitchfork.tv, "A Brief History...
Occasionally on Friday, I discuss the week's best first-run animated series episode I saw. It's the "Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week. "Brokedown Merry-Go-Round," a two-hour block of original...
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Marvel's Grace and Frankie is an odd but interesting outlier in Netflix's...
Wow, Marvel Studios, who knew you'd be so inclusive, progressive and gay-friendly with these Defenders TV shows you've been rolling out on Netflix? I have no idea why Marvel Television chose to follow...
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Parks and Recreation (2009-2015)
The last remaining show on NBC that was from the great underwatched Thursday night sitcom lineup that lasted on that network from 2009 to 2013 (the other shows on that lineup: The Office, 30 Rock and,...
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Throwback Thursday: Horrible Bosses
Every Throwback Thursday, I randomly pull out from my desk cabinet--with my eyes closed--a movie ticket I saved. Then I discuss the movie on the ticket and maybe a little bit of its score, which might...
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Varèse Sarabande's "LP to CD" series is a bonkers idea only hoarders would...
The AFOS blog has a schedule each week: just two (or sometimes three) new posts, and one of the posts is a Throwback Thursday post where I draw from a desk cabinet a movie ticket I saved and discuss at...
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Throwback Thursday: The Wolf of Wall Street
Every Throwback Thursday, I randomly pull out from my desk cabinet--with my eyes closed--a movie ticket I saved. Then I discuss the movie on the ticket and maybe a little bit of its score, which might...
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Is Christina Hendricks a "trouper" or "trooper"?
A few days ago, I was looking for the YouTube link to that old viral video of a KTLA morning TV interviewer transforming into a total dweeb after Christina Hendricks, star of the...
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Throwback Thursday: The Dark Knight Rises (with guest blogger Hardeep Aujla...
Every Throwback Thursday, I randomly pull out from my desk cabinet--with my eyes closed--a movie ticket I saved, and then I discuss the movie on the ticket. This time I've gotten Hardeep Aujla, an...
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Trevor Noah is taking the reins of The Daily Show, not the "reigns"
After I watch any movie, whether on Netflix or in the theater, I like to read the reviews it received or the think pieces it spawned, if it's a movie that has left or is leaving an impact on the...
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Throwback Thursday: Mad Max: Fury Road
Every Throwback Thursday, I pull out from my desk cabinet--with my eyes closed--a movie ticket stub I didn't throw away, and then I discuss the movie on the ticket. Today, instead of drawing some...
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