The Bearded Trio

THE MUMMY Music Composed and Conducted by JERRY GOLDSMITH INTRADA ISC 402 Intrada's latest release is from Universal Studios' thrilling 1999 adventure The Mummy. Composer Jerry Goldsmith wrote and recorded nearly 100 minutes of music with nods to his beloved action-and-suspense vernacular of the late ’70s and early ’80s, an era he seldom looked back upon by 1999. By the '90s, Goldsmith was usually rooting his rhythmic ideas in heavy doses of electronics. Here, however, Goldsmith revisited a musical language he had largely moved away from, using real percussion and low brass and strings to deliver almost all the rhythms. And to emphasize the Egyptian locale, Goldsmith employed the exotic color of a bouzouki, a mandolin-like, Greek instrument to provide regional color. In the end, The Mummy was one of the biggest box-office successes in Jerry Goldsmith’s career. At the time of the film's release, Jerry Goldsmith and engineer Bruce Botnick selected 57 minutes of highli...

THE MUMMY Starring Tom Cruise, Sofia Boutella,  Annabelle Wallis, Jake Johnson and Russell Crowe Screenplay by David Koepp and Christopher McQuarrie and Dylan Kussman Directed by Alex Kurtzman Reviewed by Patrick and Paul Gibbs Out of Four There was a crowd that felt quite let down by Stephen Sommers remake of  The Mummy because they got a campy Indiana Jones  knockoff. But there was an even bigger crowd (of which we were part) that didn't even have the movie on their radar but ended up finding it to be a joyously fun popcorn  flick, and it has a place in movie history if for no other reason than the fact that the phrase "I actually liked  The Mummy  better than the new  Star Wars " was spoken so many times. Either way, there is no denying that the franchise fizzled out, and not long after the National Astronomical Society declared that Pluto was no longer a planet, they added that Brendan Fraser is no longer a ...