Any discussion of music and film eventually has to include the name of Don Simpson. Rising through the ranks at Paramount in their legendary run of success in the 1970s, Simpson's most notable work came in his producing partnership with Jerry Bruckheimer, resu...

The overarching theme of this column being the relationship between a song, a given movie scene, and that scene's relation to the given film as a whole, this week's selection is an instance when the song choice did not work. The 2009 screen adaptation of Watch...

It's the rare song that can be specifically written for one movie, in which context it becomes iconic, and then re-appropriated in completely different context and work equally as well. One such song is “Chaiyya Chaiyya,” (a rough English translation of which ...

A question has come up frequently of late, though it never really goes away, to wit: is a critic under any obligation to render a moral judgment on a film? This piece over at Criticwire addresses the issue directly with regards to the depictions of torture in ...