Huge collection of movie theme songs and TV soundtracks
The Dam Busters is a 1955 British film about the legendary Dambusters Raid from World War 2. The film tells the story of Operation Chastise (which is what the Raid was known as to the RAF), from Barnes Wallis’ development of the famous Bouncing Bomb through to the raid itself. The film contains a high…
Crimson Tide is a 1995 submarine thriller directed by Tony Scott and starring Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman. During a period of civil war in Russia, ultranationalist forces seize the area around Vladivostok, including a naval base and a nuclear missile complex, from which they threaten to launch ICBM’s at America if attacked. Deterring them…
Pirates of the Caribbean is a Walt Disney film franchise that currently comprises four films with a fifth in the works. The first film, The Curse of the Black Pearl, tells the tale of a humble blacksmith, Will Turner (played by Orlando Bloom), who has ambitions to marry the governor’s daughter, Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley),…
Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 American action film set during the 1944 Invasion of Normandy in World War Two. After the bloody chaos of the landings on Omaha beach (the worst of the five landing beaches) US Army Rangers Captain John Miller (played by Tom Hanks) is assigned to find a paratrooper lost behind…
Under Siege is a 1992 action film starring Steven Seagal and Tommy Lee Jones. It’s one of the sub-genre of films best described as “Die Hard on an X,” in this case a soon-to-be-retired Us Navy Battleship, the USS Missouri. Seagal is Casey Ryback, a Chief Petty Officer in the ship’s galley, although he originally…
Mock the Week is a British satirical panel show, hosted by Dara O Briain, featuring six comedians giving hilariously bogus answers to topical news stories. Common rounds include categories, where a comedian must make jokes about a random subject, if this is the answer what is the question?, where an answer will be shown and…
Today we have a follow-up to our earlier Star Wars theme post: since we love the music so much we wanted to share more of it. The Empire Strike Back (or Episode V if you prefer) was the second in the Original Trilogy and follows on from the success of the first film. Despite the…
Another action-packed film from the Marvel Comics Universe, Guardians of the Galaxy gives us a quintet of unlikeable heros. When space adventurer Peter Quill steals a mysterious orb from the evil Ronan, he finds himself the subject of a relentless hunt through the galaxy. He has no choice but to forge an uneasy truce with…
Die Hard is a famous 1988 American action film, directed by John McTiernan and starring Bruce WIllis. The film features John McClane, an off-duty New York City police office who has been invited to a Christmas party in Los Angeles at his wife’s offices in a new skyscraper. Johnis attempting to reconcile things with his…
Star Trek II was the film that proved that Star Trek could work on the big screen. After the critical failure of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Gene Rodenberry was removed from direct control, so Producer Harve Bennet and Director Nicholas Meyer stepped up and produced the scripts themselves. Meyer famously wrote the final draft…
Meet Indiana Jones, one of cinema’s more unlikely heroes. He has no special powers and his day job is the yawn-inducing role of Archeology Professor. But he does have a few things on his side. One, he’s played by Harrison Ford. Two, he has a hat, a whip and a gun and knows how to…
Released in 1978, Superman was the forerunner of the modern superhero genre. Big, bold and theatrical, the film tells the story of eponymous hero, otherwise known as Kal-El of Krypton. The film opens with the Fall of Krypton and Jor-El’s efforts to save his son, Kal, who is sent far across space to and on…
South Park is a famous, or infamous, American cartoon following the adventures of Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflofski, Eric Cartman and Kenny McCormick, four young boys in the small Colorado mountain town of South Park. It is far from an ordinary town though; the vast majority of the adults are very, very stupid at times and…
In 2003 the Battlestar Galactica miniseries jumped onto our TV’s. Big, bold and downright awesome, the miniseries tells the tale of the Fall of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol, long-lost brothers of Man. Decades earlier, they fought a long and brutal war against the Cylons, intelligent machines built by the Colonies to make life easier….
Doctor Who is a giant of science fiction. First broadcast over 50 years ago in November 1963, it lasted twenty-six years until being cancelled in 1989. It was revived in 2005 and continues to this day, making it the single longest-running science fiction series, beating out Star Trek by w die margin (even if you…
2001: A Space Odyssey is a seminal work of science fiction cinema, created by Stanley Kubrick in conjunction with the famous author Arthur C Clarke (who also wrote the novel). Produced in conjunction with the novel in 1968, 2001 tells the story of Man’s dealings with the mysterious Monolith, from it’s influences on our ancestors…