The Chemical Brothers’ Escape Plan

written by: Kim Manning on November 16, 2011

Hanna isn’t the greatest movie ever made, nor was the soundtrack the most brilliant album of all time, but put the two together, and it’s a creatively ingenious concoction.

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Zach Braff’s Soundtrack to Our Lives

written by: Gregory E. Frohbieter on October 11, 2011

The convention of the mixtape is where the genesis and the strengths of the soundtrack of 2004 indie film Garden State come about.

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Piping Portuguese in Through the Headsets

written by: Charlie Woodman on September 22, 2011

Ultimately, whether the film is enjoyable is almost irrelevant, because the soundtrack is good enough to stand as a music compilation all its own.

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Sing Along, The Cults Are Here

written by: Tyler Remmert on August 3, 2011

While “Dig!” catalogued the breakdown of one of the most potential-filled bands of the last 15 years, its soundtrack would be CliffsNotes for a scene that saw themselves just as important as Newcombe, and capable of the same “righteous” battle against the evil forces of the record industry, immortalized by Courtney Taylor-Taylor.

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The Dither of Film Noir

written by: Devin Costello on July 14, 2011

Despite the emergence of this new, artistically driven mode of filmmaking, before “The Third Man,” noirs still too often succumbed to the clichéd string arrangement scores of their predecessors.

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Explosions Under the Lights

written by: Cody Prentiss on May 26, 2011

Sports fervor combined with teen angst is the epitome of raw feeling, and Explosions in The Sky’s ability to carry emotional heft through instrumental prog-rock makes them ideal messengers for it

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The Social Network - Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

The Social Network Strikes a Chord

written by: Taylor Brennan on November 22, 2010

If films can be thought of as individual notes coming together to make one sound, only every once in a great while would we hear a chord as perfect as “The Social Network.”

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