Jerry Goldsmith

One Mann's Movies Concert Review: Michael Giacchino at 50 (2017).

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In rather a departure from my normal posts, here’s a review of the epic concert held at the Royal Albert Hall in London last night (20th October 2017) to celebrate the 50th birthday of film, TV and videogame composer Michael Giacchino.  With the deaths in recent years of Jerry Goldsmith and James Horner (the latter … Read more

One Mann's Movies Film Review – Alien: Covenant (2017).

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Horrific Beasts and How to Avoid Them. I seem to be in a bit of a minority in quite liking Ridley Scott’s last Alien outing – 2012’s “Prometheus”: a heady, if at times ponderous, theory to the origins of man. The first hour of that film is really good. But for me, what made the … Read more