Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound

When’s the last time you got mad at a YouTube video because the sound got removed from the visuals? Chances are, you probably ceased watching immediately after it was clear what was going on. Sound with no picture can be liberating and imagination-provoking, but a picture with no sound is good at best. The great George […]

Movie Man Jackson looks at: 2018 Music in Movies (Part 5)

Music is the strongest form of magic. Part 5 of the yearly Music in Movies series continues. If you missed parts 1, 2, 3, and 4, you can find those here, here, here, and here. Let’s do it. Can You Ever Forgive Me? (score composed by Nate Heller, soundtrack by various artists) What Dorothy Said Noel Coward/John Hancock Dear […]

Movie Man Jackson looks at: 2018 Music in Movies (Part 3)

Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. Part 3 of the yearly Music in Movies series continues. If you missed parts 1 and 2, you can find those here and here. Let’s do it. Incredibles 2 (composed by Michael Giacchino) Consider Yourselves Undermined! Train of Taut Searching for a Screenslaver Elastigirl’s Got a […]

Sicario: Day of the Soldado

Even my theater doesn’t know what to call this movie. The game hasn’t changed, but it has expanded. Mexican drug cartels are no longer solely running drugs into the United States. Now, they smuggle terrorists into the Americas. After a horrific Kansas City incident goes down, the U.S is willing to do whatever is needed […]

Arrival: Movie Man Jackson

We come in peace? In peace we come? Peace we come in? They all mean different things! Out of nowhere, large opaque oblong spacecrafts come out of the sky, hovering over 12 cities across the world. They look threatening, so they had to have come to bring destruction to Earth. But, they just hover there, […]

Movie Man Jackson looks at: 2014 Music in Movies (Part 5)

Continuing with the series, today comes Part 5, which will, in all likelihood, conclude the series. Again, this is not a comprehensive list, just of things I have seen. Let me know what I have missed or need to hear below! For parts 1, 2, 3, and 4, click here, here, here, and here. Full soundtrack from […]