The all-too-common practice of desperately rushing to wring some last-minute recreation and rest out of the dog days of August has made many a vacation go sideways, to either a horrifying or hilarious degree. The continuation of Play Morricone For Me's two-part Vacations Gone Wrong program compiles more scores from thrillers…
In this episode of PLAY MORRICONE FOR ME, we explore a fun theme called "Vacations Gone Wrong" to an either horrifying or hilarious degree. (I feel like in movies, there are only those two extremes.) This is part one of a two-parter, and the second part will be along shortly.…
This episode of PLAY MORRICONE FOR ME explores the sordid world of 80's & 90's erotic thrillers—flippantly described as "bunny boilers" in the trades. The genre exploded into the mainstream with FATAL ATTRACTION, saw the rewriting of its musical DNA with BASIC INSTINCT, and exists today in a hibernative state,…
This episode of PLAY MORRICONE FOR ME gives Eastern Westerns (and/or Western Easterns) their close-up. Featuring music from fish-out-of-water stories about martial artists, samurai, and other Asian action heroes in the Old West, like RED SUN, THE STRANGER AND THE GUNFIGHTER and SHANGHAI NOON, as well as movies from Hong…
PLAY MORRICONE FOR ME salutes Hollywood's King of the B's on the one hundredth anniversary of his birth. Roger Corman mentored a generation of New Hollywood talent and produced, directed and/or distributed some 500 feature films in his 70-year career, including gothic horror, atomic sci-fi, b-westerns, teen delinquent melodramas, biker…
Welcome to the inaugural episode of PLAY MORRICONE FOR ME on CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO. You have no idea how thrilled I am to welcome Jack Criddle and his terrific program into the CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO family. I've been an admirer of Jack's show for quite some time; it reminds me…