Music and Magic: The Harry Potter Soundtrack Retrospective — Part 1 of 10:...
The ten-year cycle of Harry Potter films brought us more than just movie magic -- it also brought us the magic of movie music. Escape Pod is about to take you on a ten-part journey through the music...
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Overall, I think that the Sorcerer's Stone soundtrack will forever live on in our hearts because it gave us "Hedwig's Theme". However, as soundtracks go, I'd consider it average for John Williams, who...
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While Chamber of Secrets is a darker film than the first Harry Potter, the soundtrack was still too juvenile to really pass on the feeling of peril in the danger sequences -- especially since the film...
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While Prisoner of Azkaban doesn't have my favorite overall soundtrack of all the Potter films, it's my favorite of the John Williams scores, and it has one of my favorite tracks of all eight films on...
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For the first time in the Harry Potter series, we had a start-to-finish soundtrack that was a truly complete work of art. Patrick Doyle's Goblet of Fire soundtrack is, without a doubt, my favorite of...
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Nicholas Hooper, though a talented composer, seems to have swung and missed with his Order of the Phoenix soundtrack. It wasn't a character in the film, and it wasn't a complete work of art, although...
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Although I didn't like the film almost at all, and although Half-Blood Prince was my least-favorite of the books, I definitely got some enjoyment out of Nicholas Hooper's soundtrack. He quite redeemed...
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I was very pleased with Alexandre Desplat's soundtrack for the first part of Deathly Hallows. Not surprising, given that he did a lot of the same things Patrick Doyle did in Goblet of Fire -- my...
View ArticleBook Review: “H.I.V.E.: Higher Institute of Villainous Education” by Mark Walden
Take the tried-and-true story framework of Harry Potter and set it at a school for super-villains and you've got H.I.V.E., a young adult novel by Mark Walden. I found it pretty funny, and think it's...
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Alexandre Desplat's soundtrack for Deathly Hallows 2 provided a fitting musical end to the Harry Potter saga. I especially enjoyed what I'm calling Cycles -- the Battle Cycle, the Snape Cycle, and the...
View ArticleMusic and Magic: The Harry Potter Soundtrack Retrospective — Part 10 of 10:...
After listening to all eight Harry Potter soundtracks pretty much in a row, here's my ordered list of which ones I think are better than the others.
View ArticleWeb Series Review: Harry Potter and the Ten Years Later
The Harry Potter phenomenon has spawned countless fan-created works of written fiction, musical awesomeness, and re-cut music videos. Harry Potter and the Ten Years Later is the latest entry in that...
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