Huge collection of movie theme songs and TV soundtracks
Frozen is a 2013 Disney animated musical fantasy comedy musical film. The film was inspired by Hans Christian Andersens fairy tale The Snow Queen. The Frozen film follows a fearless princess who sets off a epic adventure, Disney style of course. Through the adventure she is accompanied by a rugged iceman, his reindeer and a…
Byker Grove was a British television series that spawned between 1989 and 2006, so a healthy 17 year run. The shows creator was Adele Rose who has also worked on Coronation Street as a scrip writer and has written around 450 scripts for the long running soap opera series. Byker Grove aired BBC at 5:10pm…
Armageddon is a 1998 science-fiction/disaster film by Michael Bay, starring Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck. It was released just two and a half months after Deep Impact, a film with a remarkably similar plot. Armageddon did better at the box office, whilst Deep impact is considered more realistic. Armageddon opens in typical Michael Bay fashion,…
Shrek is a 2001 animated film that parodies many elements of fairy tales and other children’s stories. It was produced by Dreamworks (and helped to make Dreamworks a recognized competitor to Pixar). THe film stars Mike Meyers, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy and John Lithgow. Meyers voicing the titular Shrek, an ogre who is quite content…
Johnny English is a 2003 British parody of the James Bond films, starring Rowan Atkinson (of Blackadder fame), Ben Miller and John Malkovich. English is a minor employee in the fictional intelligence service, M.I.7, responsible for providing mission documents (maps, access codes and so forth) for the actual agents, whom he has long dreamed of…
THe Longest Yard is a 2005 American sports comedy starring Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, James Cromwell and others. It tells the story of Paul Crewe (Sandler), a disgraced former NFL quarterback who was banned for several years on charges of point shaving. During a party his (really irritating) girlfriend throws, Crewe gets very drunk and…
Beverly Hills Cop is a classic 1984 cop thriller/comedy, starring Eddie Murphy (in his first major film role) as Axel Foley, a smartass Detective from Detroit who winds up in sunny California investigating a murder. The film features a strong supporting cast including Ronny Cox as the Beverly hills Police Lieutenant and Steven Berkoff as…
Wallace and Gromit is, to anyone who is even vaguely familiar with British culture, something of an institution. It’s a series of short (and one full-length) films about a bumbling Lancashire inventor named Wallace and his hyperintelligent and long-suffering dog Gromit. It’s done entirely in claymation, which means production on even a half-hour film can…
We’ve already done the 2003 reboot of BSG, but we felt it was only right to include the original series as well (since it’s theme is just so awesome). This classic series is renowned for being, well, cheesy science fiction at it’s best. It’s characters are larger than life, the seriousness of the situation is…
Independence Day is a seminal 1996 science fiction/disaster film starring Bull Pullman (as President Whitmore), Will Smith (as Captain Steven Hiller, USMC) and Jeff Goldblum (as David Levinson). The film shows the effects of an alien expedition arriving at Earth and mankind’s attempts to resist the alien assault. The film was a major commercial success…
Transformers is a 2007 sci-fi/action film based on the Transformers toys and cartoons developed by Hasbro in the 80’s. It is directed by Michael BAy (so expect lots of gratuitous special effects). Despite misxed reviews from critics and fans of the original toys (mostly quibbles over re-designs and so forth), the film was a major…
Zulu is a classic historical war film, released in 1964 and directed by Cy Endfield, who wrote the screenplay along with John Prebble. It tells the story of the Battle Rorke’s Drift during the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War in Africa. As the film opens, it is revealed that a strong British force was crushed at Isandlwana,…
Jurassic Park is a 1993 science fiction/action/horror film, directed by Steven Spielberg and based on a 1990 novel of the same name by Michael Chrichton (who would help write the screenplay). The film tells the story of how a billionaire philanthropist, John Hammond, has created a wildlife park of dinosaurs, cloned from DNA preserved in…
Robin Hood is a 1991 Americna adventure film directed by Kevin Reynolds. It stars Kevin Costner, Morgan Freedom, Christian Slater and Alan Rickman, amongst others. It tells a heavily adapted version of the classic English legend of Robin Hood and his Merry Men and their fight against the evil Sheriff of Nottingham (being the bad…
Starship Troopers, a 1997 science fiction/action/parody, was directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Edward Neumeier. It is (incredibly loosely) based on the Robert Heinlein novel of the same name, but do not expect serious depictions of the book’s contents. In the future, Earth has become a space-faring Federation. However, after “the social scientists brought…
WarGames is a 1983 Cold WAr science-fiction thriller written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes. The film stars Matthew Broderick as David Lightman, a highly intelligent but unmotivated young computer hacker. The film opens with an apparent nuclear war (revealed to be a readiness test), from the perspective of the silo crews. The senior…