Penelope “Penelope” is a pretty little motif from composer Ludwig Göransson, built around Anne Hathaway’s character, and it wasn’t quite captured in my last two arrangements from The Odyssey. I’ve been re-watching Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy with my son, and Anne Hathaway is fantastic […]

Chasing the Escaping Sun As I write this, I saw Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey about a week ago, and I’m still sitting with it. I enjoyed it, yes — but I can’t tell if I loved it? I’ll need a re-watch. To me Oppenheimer was […]

The Odyssey Theme At this point, I can definitely hear (composer) Ludwig Göransson’s aesthetic when he’s scoring a Christopher Nolan film. There’s a linear nature to the music… a veneer as familiar as Nolan’s blueish hues and title font. Although completely different, The Odyssey and […]

Destroyer of Worlds Ludwig Göransson’s Oppenheimer soundtrack is, I believe, the greatest film music achievement of the past decade. The whole thing is immensely listenable — and woven deep into the bones of the film and the Oppenheimer story itself. If you watch it again […]

Smokestack Twins Directed by Ryan Coogler, the horror film Sinners unfolds in the Jim Crow-era Mississippi Delta in 1932. The film stars Michael B. Jordan in dual roles (as twin brothers) who return to their hometown to start again, only to be confronted by a […]

American Prometheus I’ve been obsessing over the Ludwig Göransson’s Oppenheimer soundtrack since the film’s release. Just brilliant. Like Hans Zimmer at his peak in the 2010’s. This is a complex story about a complex individual — and Christopher Nolan leans heavily on the music to […]

Oppenheimer Oppenheimer is Christopher Nolan’s 12th motion picture. It’s widely considered to be his greatest achievement — with some critics calling it “the film of the century”. The film follows the life of theoretical physicist, J. Robert Oppenheimer who developed the first nuclear weapon. Ludwig […]

The Mandalorian Set in the Star Wars universe, The Mandalorian takes place five years after the events of Return of the Jedi and follows a bounty hunter beyond the reaches of the New Republic. It’s filmed as “a Western” and it’s the best Star Wars […]