Roman's Movie Reviews and Musings

In the 1980s you had three masters of film music. John Williams gave us Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark . Jerry Goldsmith was on...

Introduction : When I revisted this film recently, I was struck by one thing – there is no way it could be green lit by any major studi...

Introduction : I tend to give American animation the short shrift on this blog. But that doesn’t mean I don’t admire it. Pixar has made...

Introduction : You know me, I love supernatural thrillers. I get drawn into the concepts and think there are some really good stories t...

Introduction : When I was a kid, I had a friend who was a horror fiend. This guy loved anything with monsters, blood, guts and ghosts. ...

Introduction : This is one of those movies that I’d heard about back when I was a kid. But I had never seen the 1950s version. Yeah I’d...

Back in 2010 composer John Powell wrote what many film score fans still call one of the best film scores of the 10s, How To Train Your Drago...