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Ferris Bueller’s Day Off was a classic film from the 80s about making each moment count and enjoying what you have before it’s all up and gone. Bueller (Matthew Broderick) fakes illness to his parents so that he can have a day off and then sets about enlisting his girlfriend Sloane (Mia Sara) and best friend… Read more
Back in 1998, City of Angels saw an unlikely relationship form between Dr Maggie Rice (Meg Ryan) and angel Seth (Nicolas Cage). Seth and the other angels are sent to collect people when they die and sees Maggie in the hospital. Invisible to everyone but the dead, Seth is stunned when Maggie looks directly at him.… Read more
Cruel Intentions was a massive hit in the 90s. Its young stars Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe and Reece Witherspoon were all brilliant and the soundtrack is one of my favourites. Step-siblings Kathryn (Gellar) and Sebastian (Phillippe) are not your average spoiled rich kids. They spend their days out-doing each other and arranging elaborate schemes that… Read more
The fact that a movie with as much testosterone as Top Gun needs – or even wants – a love theme is indicative of just how well-constructed a piece of consumable merchandise the film is. What? Haven’t you heard? Not all film is art. Some film is … (whispering) … commerce. We call those films… Read more
The Moldy Peaches were an anti-folk indie band (whatever that is!) of the late nineties and early 00’s. Primarily comprised of Kimya Dawson and Adam Green their songs were generally about growing up and the loss of childhood innocence. What better band, then, to provide the music for Juno, a film about a young girl having… Read more
After the tumultous reception that greeted the latest trailer for the new Muppets movie, it seems appropriate that we should use todays film song of the day to travel back to where it all began. The Muppet Movie was released in 1979 and came hot on the heels of the success of the TV Show. In what… Read more
To say that WALL.E is good is akin to saying that Bill Gates is well off. It stands head and shoulders above it’s stable-mates as an outstanding example of Pathos & passion. When you consider that this stable also contains such thorough-breds as Finding Nemo or Toy Story then it’s no mean feat. Simply put… Read more
The Coen Brother’s O Brother Where Art is one of their best film’s. Set in the deep south during the 1930′s depression, the story follows Ulysses Everett McGill (George Clooney) as he escapes prison chained to his fellow prisoners Pete (John Turturro) and Delmar (Tim Blake Nelson). A chain of events occur, based on the… Read more
Punk has always been something of a dichotomy. On one hand its subversive nature and anarchic subtext has always aimed to undermine conventional musical expectations. Whilst on the other hand it’s catchy tunes and larger then life characters have seen it scale the dizzying heights of the charts and become as popular as, well, Pop.… Read more
Huey Lewis and the News’ best known film related song is, of course, the rock classic ‘The Power of Love’ from Back to the Future. A song with surprising longevity, to this day it’s difficult to hear the song without picturing the opening credits. Song and film are so closely associated that Michael J Fox… Read more
Daryl Hall & John Oates were staples of the late ’70′s early ’80′s soft rock scene. Popular tracks such as ‘Maneater’ and ‘Method of Modern Love’ bothered the charts for almost fifteen years. However it’s one of their lesser known tracks, ‘You Make My Dreams’ that attained new fame in 2009 when it was used… Read more
The Sound of Silence is the song that catapulted writer Paul Simon’s career, along with his partner of the time, Art Garfunkel, into the big time. Of all of the songs that appear in Mike Nichol’s The Graduate, The Sound of Silence carries with it the most poignant overtones and relevance to the narrative. The… Read more
Known as The Little Sparrow, Edith Piaf had a voice that was larger than life; a life that was sublimely portrayed by Marion Cotillard in the brilliant biographic La Vie En Rose. Non Je Ne Regrette Rien is perhaps her most well know song, immediately related to the aforementioned movie. However, the best use of… Read more
This fantastic song appears in Giuseppe Tornatore’s Cinema Paridiso, the story of a young boys journey through his formative years, and the role the local cinema plays in influencing his life. The song features half way through the film, in a scene set in the cinema: as a huge crowd stares up at Silvana Mangano… Read more
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