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Film and TV critic Clint Worthington (The Spool) talks to a new composer every week about the origins, challenges, and joys of their latest musical scores.

When last we spoke to composer Jay Wadley, he'd just finished scoring the mercurial Charlie Kaufman film I'm Thinking of Ending Things. Four...

This week, I talk to legendary TV composer Mike Post about everything from the Law and Order dun-dun to his original album of musical suites...

This week's guest is RTS winning and BAFTA-nominated composer Vince Pope, a London-based composer who cut his teeth on scores ranging from M...

Grammy- and two-time Emmy-winning composer Carlos Rafael Rivera has spent the last decade building moody, complex musical worlds around comp...

This week, we're catching up with one of the Oscar-shortlisted Best Score nominees -- Anthony Willis' score to Emerald Fennell's lavish, mys...

For nearly fifteen years, composer Dave Porter has been the musical voice of the Breaking Bad universe -- having scored every season of Brea...

This podcast has had a long and fruitful relationship with composer Paul Leonard-Morgan, the man behind the scores of films like Dredd and L...

This week, we're joined by Ivor Novello and BIFA-nominated composer Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch, a Paris-born artist who has made quite the n...

As we've seen this year, and my interview with the songwriters behind Dicks: The Musical some weeks back, 2023 has been a surprisingly solid...

This week, we talk to composer Mac Quayle, who burst onto the scene in 2015 with his Emmy-winning score to Sam Esmail's mysterious, genre-be...

This week, I'm thrilled to talk to English musician and nascent film score composer Jerskin Fendrix about his score to the wacky, surreal, o...

This week's guest is an Emmy winner, a Grammy winner, and a nine-time Oscar nominee, whose scores have graced the big and small screens sinc...

Sometimes, the dumbest things are the most delightful -- and that's certainly the case with A24's riotous new musical, Dicks: The Musical ....

This week, we speak to composer Yair Elazar Glotman about his score for the latest prestige thriller from Netflix, Reptile , a stylish neo-n...

Historical biopics of famous leaders are a very familiar genre at this point: Great Men (or in this case, Women) of history navigating war o...

Composer John Powell has been composing film scores since 1997; whether it's How to Train Your Dragon, The Bourne Identity, or Solo: A Star...
Ever since his 2018 feature debut Sorry to Bother You , Oakland-based musician Boots Riley (of The Coup) has built a reputation as one of ou...

Much like the zombies that infest its world, the Walking Dead franchise simply refuses to die. With Dead City , the shambling hordes make th...

Veteran composer Jongnic "JB" Bontemps took a long and winding road to film scoring. Despite showing an early passion for scoring (and study...

In a relatively grim year for superhero movies, both critically and at the box office, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is blissfully buc...

How do you write the score to someone else's self-mythology? That's the challenge this week's guest, composer Ronen Landa, faced for one of...

When last we spoke to composer and multi-instrumentalist Ariel Marx, we broke down her haunting, curious score to Hulu's miniseries Candy ....

The third season of Star Trek: Picard had a lot on its shoulders: It was the final season of its show, as well as a bombastic, blockbuster-l...

In the 1990s, Nickelodeon was a bastion of surprisingly sophisticated children's animation, and few shows demonstrated that freewheeling sen...

It's morphin' time! Thirty years after Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers hit the airwaves and thrilled '90s latchkey kids the world over, the fr...

When last we left composer Trevor Gureckis, he was just beginning his eerie, unsettling work on M. Night Shyamalan's acclaimed Apple TV+ ser...

The 2023 Grammys have come and gone, and the first Grammy for Best Video Game Score has already been awarded (congratulations, Assassin's Cr...

The Star Trek universe is a franchise with decades of musical legacy, from the original Alexander Courage fanfare to Jerry Goldsmith's nauti...

Today, we're talking about the latest film from director Brandon Cronenberg, Infinity Pool , another in a series of cinematic provocations f...

Earlier this month, the 2022 Grammys ran its first-ever category for Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media -- a...

It's safe to say that Eywa has smiled on James Cameron's long-awaited sequel to his 2009 epic Avatar ; a mere two months into its run, Avata...

For Texan-born composer Chanda Dancy, 2022 feels like a breakthrough year. She's worked in the film and television composing business for ei...

It's hard to think of another songbook in Disney's oeuvre that has put a dent in pop culture quite like Encanto , the latest from Walt Disne...

William Gibson is the father of cyberpunk, that most evocative of sci-fi genres -- where technology meets flesh in the neon-soaked worlds of...

Welcome to Right on Cue, the podcast where we interview film, TV, and video game composers about the origins and nuances of their latest wor...

Imagine a world where pain and pleasure are one and the same, where hellish delights await those who crave the extremities of sensation. Tha...

When Outer Wilds was released in 2019, it felt like a casual revolution of not just adventure games as a genre but video game music as a who...

Much has been said and written about just the sheer size and scale (and cost) of Prime Video's new flagship series, Lord of the Rings: The R...

Welcome to Right on Cue, the podcast where we interview film, TV, and video game composers about origins and nuances of their latest works,...

Of all the actors to get a John Wick-ian action vehicle, Allison Janney might just be the last one on your list. And yet, here we are with A...

We finally get to talk about a video game score for the first time in the podcast's history! And yet, we're still intimately connected to th...

As the Emmys swerve just around the corner, I wanted to take a look at one of the year's best shows -- Showtime's Yellowjackets , which is c...

While Apple TV+ is home to some of the biggest shows on TV -- your Teds Lasso , your Severances -- some of its best, most beguiling shows an...

Welcome to Right on Cue, the podcast where we interview film, TV, and video game composers about the origins and nuances of their latest wor...

Welcome to Right on Cue, the podcast where we interview film, TV, and video game composers about the origins and nuances of their latest wor...

While Netflix is firmly in the grips of Stranger Things fever, another, more quietly affecting horror series made waves through the back hal...

On Friday the 13th, 1980, humble housewife Candy Montgomery killed her friend Betty Gore with an axe, slashing her 41 times in her friend's...

Films about sex are rare, films about porn even rarer. And when they do arrive, more often than not they're one-handed, moralistic tales of...

One of the most heartening things about Disney+'s run of Marvel TV shows is that they seem to be an interesting staging ground for new ideas...

How do you put music to the multiverse? Especially when the multiverse includes sights as strange as rocks with googly eyes, people with hot...