It was Father’s Day this past weekend, and Paul Simon wrote and performed a lovely ode to the relationship between himself and his daughter, Lulu, “Father and Daughter”, which was included on the soundtrack for the 2002 film The Wild Thornberrys Movie.  Released between the fourth and fifth seasons of the Nickelodeon series, The Wild […]

Gone in 60 Seconds hit theaters 25 years ago today, and while Nic Cage and his heist team got psyched up with “Lowrider” by War, “Painted on My Heart” by The Cult was the single released from the movie’s soundtrack.  Formed in 1987, The Cult were still rocking in 2000, having sold out a 30-date […]

The John Wick series has relied chiefly on the driving score of Tyler Bates for its soundtrack, but for this weekend’s newest entry in “The World of John Wick”, Ballerina, Halsey, and Amy Lee teamed up for the single “Hand That Feeds”.  Halsey previously paid homage to Lee, calling her the inspiration for her song […]

Casper opened 30 years ago today, and audiences heard Jordan Hill’s song “Remember Me This Way” in one of the movie’s climactic scenes.  An update of the Harvey Comics character, Casper starred Malachi Pearson as the voice of Casper while Christina Ricci and Bill Pullman co-starred.  James Horner scored the movie, and Little Richard sang a […]

Tom Green had his first major film role 25 years ago today when Road Trip debuted in theaters, but he had been blowing up before that on his TV show The Tom Green Show and had a hit song with “Lonely Swedish (The Bum Bum Song)”.  Created for his Canadian TV series, Green released the […]

Final Destination: Bloodlines arrives in theaters this weekend, which makes it the perfect time to revisit the musical high point of the franchise, the music video for “New Romance” by Miles Fisher.  Fisher starred alongside Nicholas D’Agosto, Emma Bell, Ellen Wroe, David Koechner, PJ Byrne, Jacqueline MacInnes Wood, and Arlen Escarpeta, and everyone except Escarpeta […]

If you’ve been watching Andor Season 2, you know that in between all the excellent drama and tension, arguably the biggest banger in Star Wars history was dropped with the track “Brasso” from Episode 3 (Mild Spoilers Ahead).  Played at the wedding of Mon Mothma’s (Genevieve O’Reilly) daughter by some sort of DJ droid to […]

  Before she was getting us to Pump It Up in The Substance, Margaret Qualley was dancing like a maniac for director Spike Jonze in a perfume ad/music video for French fashion house Kenzo World.  Released in 2016, the video features the song “Mutant Brain” from Sam Spiegel (Jonze’s brother), Ape Drums, and Jamaican DJ […]

Alongside all the nu metal throwbacks like Limp Bizkit and Papa Roach in Netflix’s recent Devil May Cry series, there was also a brand new song from Evanescence, “Afterlife”.  The song debuted in the show’s sixth episode “The First Circle,” which revealed the tragic backstories of the show’s main villain, The White Rabbit (Hoon Lee) […]

A hit from 1986, “Hip to Be Square” by Huey Lewis & The News reached a new level of infamy 25 years ago when it appeared in one of the most memorable scenes of 2000’s American Psycho.  Inviting his co-worker Paul Allen (Jared Leto) to his apartment, psychopathic investment banker Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) extols […]

Taking its title from the Leonard Cohen song, the 1990 movie Bird on a Wire featured a new version of the song from The Neville Brothers on its soundtrack.  The movie stars Mel Gibson and Goldie Hawn, with Gibson’s character in witness protection and Hawn as his ex-girlfriend whom he unexpectedly runs into.  The pair is […]