In a world where sci-fi tech is becoming science “faction,” it’s eerie how close to home some films and stories are starting to hit. New this week from Amazon MGM Studios is Mercy, which stars Chris Pratt and Rebecca Ferguson. While they have star-power, it is the film’s composer that’s really got us excited. As such, we get to premiere the title track taken from Mercy-Original Motion Picture Soundtrack with an original score by two-time Emmy award-winning and three-time Grammy-nominated composer Ramin Djawadi (Game of Thrones, Pacific Rim, Iron Man, Fallout). Ramin’s intense score conjures a dark and unrelenting backdrop to the futuristic thriller starring Pratt and Ferguson. The film, directed by Timur Bekmambetov,…
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FourScore Match-Up #20: “The Colossus of Clout”
This year, on the 60th anniversary of Ishiro Honda’s landmark film, we’ll get to see Gareth Edwards’ reinvention of the world-famous Toho monster. In the subsequent decades since Godzilla first lumbered out of the water we’ve see other mightily impressive creatures (with some equally impressive firepower) blaze across the screen yet of the biggest and baddest Gojira reigns supreme. Over the years he’s retained the title of “King of the Monsters” but he didn’t earn his moniker easily – there are some memorable, and equally gargantuan, baddies who can and have gone toe-to-toe with Toho’s big screen icon. Today we look up, way up, like into the clouds up to see…
