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Mike Brennan has been a film music critic since the early 2000s, first for Cinemusic.net (2003-2004) and then for SoundtrackNet (2004-2011). He has also been a member of the International Film Music Critics Association since 2008. Mike is also an oceanographer and deep water archaeologist (www.brennanexploration.com) and writer (www.fifthwell.com).

Aug 5

Nope (2022)

The latest Jordan Peele film is a fusion of a modern western with science fiction “first contact” horror that puts a fresh spin on the...

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Dec 30, 2021

THE BROKEN VIEW: On the Mend (2021)

The Broken View is a band from upstate New York, whose first EP, Something Better, came out in 2019. I did a short review and interview...

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Dec 21, 2021

Tale of the Sleeping Giants (2021)

Panu Aaltio is a Finnish composer who I first heard of with his score to The Home of Dark Butterflies in 2008, which I reviewed then....

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Mar 24, 2021

Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)

Tom Holkenborg’s journey through the DC universe has been monumental. The industrial metal and electronic musician-turned film composer...

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Sep 25, 2020

THE BROKEN VIEW: Something Better (2019) and Beyond

A few months ago, I was browsing YouTube and came across a cover of Linkin Park’s ‘Breaking the Habit’ by a band I’d never heard of. I...

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Mar 18, 2020

Ori and the Will of the Wisps (2020)

2015 was a good year for film music, and among the many excellent scores released that year was Gareth Coker’s score to the video game,...

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Aug 14, 2019

Musical Mutations: The Music of the X-Men Films

The end of an era arrived this summer with the release of Dark Phoenix, the seventh film in Fox’s X-Men saga that began in 2000 with...

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Apr 14, 2019

THE RAVEN AGE: Conspiracy (2019)

In early March, I came across a new band while browsing iTunes’ preorders and found the song “The Day the World Stood Still”. The...

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Oct 11, 2018

ICE NINE KILLS: The Silver Scream (2018)

In 2015, Ice Nine Kills released an experimental concept album, Every Trick In the Book (read my review here) where each song was based...

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Jun 20, 2018

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)

Jurassic Park was the first soundtrack I ever owned. Thinking back to the release of that film 25 years ago, it was practically a classic...

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