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10 Great Film Scores By Female Composers

Note: This was originally written in 2018 and published on the now-defunct Film School Rejects website. Sadly, we're eight years on and not a lot has changed. If there’s one element of filmmaking that is still seen as a sum-total male-dominated world it’s film scoring. There

Star Wars: Master of Evil

By now, a huge number of novels based on the ”Star Wars” universe have been published, with many of those excised from any sort of canon after Disney bought Lucasfilm. However, a new canon has been built, with a difference - unlike the previous “expanded universe,” where books had a

OF WOLF AND MAN: “WOLFEN”

When is a werewolf movie not a werewolf movie? When it's WOLFEN. 1981 was a special year for the cinema of the lycanthrope, with three spectacular offerings in the guise of Joe Dante's THE HOWLING, John Landis' AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON, and Michael Wadleigh&

Beast of War

With fifty years since the emergence of "Jaws," it's appropriate that another shark thriller comes splashing around in the guise of "Beast of War," directed by Australian Kiah Roache-Turner (who made another creature feature, Sting). "Beast of War" is a fast-paced intense