The jump scare is a uniquely horror movie convention. Where some movies use it as an excuse to play peekaboo and assault you with noise, others use it as a way to shatter your complacency as a viewer. It’s the purest form of scare: something bursts out of a dark corner, a loud noise cuts the tension, or a jolt to the plot comes on so unexpected, you don’t know what hit you. It may just be a momentary fright, but a good horror movie will put you on edge and keep you there.
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Alien (1979)- No blood, no Dallas
Horror purists are of the mind that jumps are cheap, and, for the most part, they are. Yet, in those nerve-wracking scenes, when a director knows exactly what they are doing, it’s riveting. I’ve always prided myself on not being one of those people who gets jumpy during a horror movie,...
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Alien (1979)- No blood, no Dallas
Horror purists are of the mind that jumps are cheap, and, for the most part, they are. Yet, in those nerve-wracking scenes, when a director knows exactly what they are doing, it’s riveting. I’ve always prided myself on not being one of those people who gets jumpy during a horror movie,...
- 10/28/2015
- by Staff
- SoundOnSight
I liked Fol Chen's album "The False Alarms," released last year. The band has a real sense of sequence, tempo and placement. They don't beat a chorus to death. (And "A Tourist Town" freaking rules.) All things that also help to make a good score and soundtrack. Julian Wass knows this. Maybe that's why the Fol Chen band member has already helmed a number of film sounds, his hands full with three scores in just a few scant months this summer. "The Pretty One" is the latest movie of these, with the film out on VOD tomorrow (June 3); Jenée Lamarque, Wass' wife, directed. For the film, Wass put together a cover of "It Might Be You," the theme from 1982's "Tootsie," an enchanting electronic re-imagining with singer Karryn on the mic. Speaking on the music for "The Pretty One," Wass said, “Around the same time as we started envisioning the score,...
- 6/3/2014
- Hitfix
Few artists are as utterly engaging on stage as Josh Groban. For real. When the 32 year-old singer stepped into the spotlight at Chicago's United Center Sunday night for a concert in the round, it was not just his celebrated vibrato that ingratiated thousands of fans. As it turns out, the guy is...well, endearingly charming and funny. As if the obvious mind-bending vocals weren't enough, Groban thoroughly delighted the crowd with his self-effacing humor and spontaneous wit as he moved through his two-hour set like a hot knife through butter. Backed up by a world-class band that came with all the strings and horns one would expect, Groban opened with his current single "Brave" and "False Alarms" off his latest album titled All That Echoes. Groban's powerful baritone bonanza continued, featuring a vocal journey of newer and older songs from an impressive catalog plucked from the artist's six studio albums.
- 10/21/2013
- by jmaurer@corp.popstar.com (Jennifer Maurer)
- PopStar
Jay-z has never been one to let moss gather under him and he proved that yet again Monday (Jan. 9) when he released a track about his brand-spanking new baby girl, Blue Ivy Carter, on his official website.
The track, titled "Glory feat. B.I.C.," reveals where he and wife Beyonce conceived their new addition: ""You was made in Paris."
It also addresses a little bit of the the significance of the name "Blue Ivy":
"Baby I paint the sky blue, my greatest creation was you."
As pointed out by ABC News, three of Jay-z's albums have the word "blue" in their titles. According to People, "Ivy" likely stands for "IV" -- the roman numeral for 4. Both Jay-z and Beyonce celebrate their birthdays on 4ths -- hers is Sept. 4, his Dec. 4) and they married on 4-4-2008.
Jay-z also opens up about the couple's trouble conceiving:
"False alarms and false starts,...
The track, titled "Glory feat. B.I.C.," reveals where he and wife Beyonce conceived their new addition: ""You was made in Paris."
It also addresses a little bit of the the significance of the name "Blue Ivy":
"Baby I paint the sky blue, my greatest creation was you."
As pointed out by ABC News, three of Jay-z's albums have the word "blue" in their titles. According to People, "Ivy" likely stands for "IV" -- the roman numeral for 4. Both Jay-z and Beyonce celebrate their birthdays on 4ths -- hers is Sept. 4, his Dec. 4) and they married on 4-4-2008.
Jay-z also opens up about the couple's trouble conceiving:
"False alarms and false starts,...
- 1/9/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Papa Jay-z himself is celebrating the birth of daughter Blue Ivy Carter on Saturday with a new track he just posted on his Life and Times website. Warning to the sensitive: The song, called “Glory,” featuring B.I.C. (oh, as in Blue Ivy Carter, we get it), will make you cry. And in a couple of instances, Hov reveals that Beyonce had a miscarriage before she was pregnant with Blue.
“False alarms and false starts/ All made better by the sound of your heart/ All the of the pain of the last time/ I prayed so hard it was the last time,” Jay says toward the beginning of the song. Later, he refers to it even more clearly, “Last time the miscarriage was so tragic/ We was afraid you’d disappear, but nah, baby, you magic.”
He repeats a refrain you’ll often hear from new parents, “The most...
“False alarms and false starts/ All made better by the sound of your heart/ All the of the pain of the last time/ I prayed so hard it was the last time,” Jay says toward the beginning of the song. Later, he refers to it even more clearly, “Last time the miscarriage was so tragic/ We was afraid you’d disappear, but nah, baby, you magic.”
He repeats a refrain you’ll often hear from new parents, “The most...
- 1/9/2012
- by Sabrina Rojas Weiss
- TheFabLife - Movies
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