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DOCUMENTARY REVIEW: Score: A Film Music Documentary
DOCUMENTARY REVIEW: Score: A Film Music Documentary

This writer is an unabashed film music lover.  I owned more film score CDs than ones of popular music back in the day and that ratio hasn’t changed with digital media.  Hell, I wrote a long-form editorial three years ago proclaiming film music as an improvement of the Mozart Effect for babies and children which led to a playlist afterwards that I still use to this day.  I am a mark for what Score: A Film Music Documentary was selling and many of the names and talents featured in the film are found on that personal playlist.

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2017, 4 STARS, Chicago Film Festival, DOCUMENTARY REVIEW, Film Festival, MOVIE REVIEW, Video on DemandDon ShanahanMusic Box Theatre2017, documentary review, Documentary filmmaking, documentary, documentary commentary, Score: A Film Music Documentary, Score, Matt Schrader, Hans Zimmer, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Nine Inch Nails, Danny Elfman, James Horner, Alfred Newman, Bernard Herrmann, Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire, Max Steiner, King Kong, Charlie Chaplin, James Cameron, David Arnold, James Bond theme, James Bond films, Heitor Pereira, Despicable Me 2, Despicable Me, Smurfs, The Smurfs, Marco Beltrami, 3:10 to Yuma, Brian Tyler, Marvel Films, Marvel Cinematic Universe, John Debney, The Passion of the Christ, Leonard Maltin, John Burlingame, Mozart Effect, Ultimate Playlist of Movie Music Lullabies, film music, Film music, film scores, movie scores, Movie music, Chicago Critics Film Festival, 5th Chicago Critics Film Festival, life lessons, life lessons from film, life lessons from documentaries, film review, movie review, film commentary, movie commentary, Every Movie Has a Lesson, Don Shanahan, Donald Shanahan, 2017 Summer MoviesComment
MOVIE REVIEW: Minions
MOVIE REVIEW: Minions

I watch "Minions" and I don't see anything fresh or fun.  I see a bloated adventure film that steals good ideas from better films because its own originality is tremendously limited.  I hear and see repeated cliches around every corner that are only played for laughs because of mild physical comedy.  I see a movie so annoying that I would punch my own child in the face for wanting to watch it over and over.  I'll be the one that says it.  This film is terrible and we can do better with family entertainment.

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2015, MOVIE REVIEW, ZERO STARSDon ShanahanDespicable Me 2, Despicable Me, Minions, movie review, film review, film commentary, movie commentary, Sandra Bullock, Jon Hamm, Geoffrey Rush, movie sequels, Steve Coogan, Allison Janney, Unnecessary Censorship, Funny, 2015, 2015 Summer Movies, life lessons from films, life lessons from moviesComment
OSCAR PREDICTIONS 2014: The music and sound categories
OSCAR PREDICTIONS 2014: The music and sound categories

It's time to make my formal predictions.  In this post, we look at the music and sound technical categories that include song, score, editing, and mixing.  Let's go! 

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2014, Column, EditorialDon ShanahanBest Original Song, Best Original Score, Best Musical Score, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound, Gravity, Frozen, Let It Go, Happy, Despicable Me 2, Pharell Williams, Man of Steel, Captain Phillips, Arcade Fire, Her, Alex Ebert, All Is Lost, Don Shanahan, Every Movie Has a Lesson, Donald Shanahan, 2014 Oscars, Awards Tracker, Awards Predictions, 86th Academy Awards, Oscar nominations, Oscar Predictions, Best Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Sound Editing, Musical Score, John Williams, Hans Zimmer, 12 Years a Slave, The Book ThiefComment