The Bearded Trio

Hans Zimmer To Appear At Royal Albert Hall In July Hans Zimmer will take part in a rare ‘in conversation’ event at the Royal Albert Hall next week, sharing the secrets of his remarkable career in the latest instalment of a groundbreaking BAFTA series. Zimmer, one of the most in-demand composers in Hollywood, will take to the stage of the Hall’s 150-capacity Elgar Room for an intimate chat about his 40-year career in films, from My Beautiful Laundrette and Rain Man to Gladiator, Pirates of the Caribbean and his celebrated creative collaborations with Christopher Nolan on Interstellar, Dunkirk and the Dark Knight trilogy. The event is the latest in BAFTA’s Conversations with Screen Composers series, which has brought many of the world’s finest writers of movie music to the Hall, including  Clint Mansell, John Powell, James Horner, James Newton Howard and Michael Giacchino – who memorably deconstructed, and performed, ‘Married Life’ from Up to a rapt audience. Mehdi Aoustin-...

DUNKIRK Starring Fionn Whitehead, Harry Styles, Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy, Kenneth Branagh, James D'Arcy, Jack Lowden,  Tom Glynn-Carney, Barry Keoghan   and Cillian Murphy Written and Directed by Christopher Nolan Reviewed by Paul & Patrick Gibbs Out of Four D espite his repeated critical commercial success, filmmaker Christopher Nolan has yet to receive an Academy Award nomination for directing. But that is all but certain to change now with his latest film, the spectacular and innovative World War II epic Dunkirk. Brilliantly directed, gorgeously photographed and superbly edited, Dunkirk is a film that demands to be seen on a giant IMAX screen, and one which definitively demonstrates that television can never entirely replace the theatrical experience, no matter how good the shows or the home theater technology get,. The small screen simply doesn't have the same immersive power, or the feeling of a shared experience. At once distinctly Nol...

I n the 'Hidden Figures: Harmonies' featurette, we learn more about the music behind the film with interviews from the film's producer and music composer Pharrell Williams, along with Hans Zimmer and the  award-winning musician Herbie Hancock. HIDDEN FIGURES  stars  Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Parsons, Mahershala Ali, Aldis Hodge, Glen Powell  and  Kevin Costner  and is directed by  Theodore Melfi.   HIDDEN FIGURES RELEASES IN CINEMAS 17th FEBRUARY   HIDDEN FIGURES  is the incredible untold story of Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughn (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe)—brilliant African-American women working at NASA, who served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, a stunning achievement that restored the nation’s confidence, turned around the Space Race, and galvanised the world....

Hans Zimmer who composed the soundtrack for Man of Steel has revealed he has not been asked to compose the soundtrack for the planned Superman Vs Batman. He said: "Honestly, I'm just sort of grappling with that right now. "Quite seriously, the thought right now is that no, I don't want to go and take what I did with [Christopher Nolan] and just plonk it into another movie. There isn't one good reason to do it, and there are so many good reasons not to do it." "I really enjoyed working with Zack Snyder, so part of it would be a personal decision. At the same time, I wouldn't want to put the ideas I used in the Chris Nolan Batman movies into a Superman movie. It just wouldn't feel right. "I'm a procrastinator, and right now, I don't want to make a decision. Zack hasn't talked to me about it, so I don't have to worry about it! I'll worry about it when I have to worry about it, and then, if I'm lucky, I'll...

Lets not take anything away from Hans Zimmer.  He's got a huge task on his hands scoring the new Superman movie.  Even Zimmer himself has recently admitted that he is under huge pressure to score a soundtrack that is very much associated with John Williams.  Many fans are questioning the wisdom of not using the maestro's familiar Superman score in some way in the new movie.  As a result and inevitably someone has remixed the latest trailer for Man Of Steel with the much loved Superman soundtrack from John Williams. Take a look. What do you think?  Just to keep if fair and balanced here is a video with just Hans Zimmer's score taken from the trailer. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/CjwgkP4xX_Q?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> THE BEARDED TRIO ON FACEBOOK THE BEARDED TRIO ON TWITTER THE BEARDED TRIO ON GOOGLE+