"king of copenhagen"

I finished the entire Pusher trilogy in about a week, something I'm seriously stoked about. I rule. Let's run it down: the first one is good and the most unusual of the lot, the second feels like a retread more than anything despite a cracking first act, and the third is the nastiest and probably the best, Zlatko Buric walking high and mighty over everybody else in the film. For a trilogy of films made to stave off total bankruptcy, they are way way better than they have any right to be.

Each film starts with an iconic opening montage set to the trilogy's theme music like so, one of the few times that I've seen heavy rock actually used well in a film. (If you're not an American filmmaker, it's most likely you'll know how to do this - apart from Zach Clark, whose underrated comedy Modern Love Is Automatic has a spot-on soundtrack from Blasphemer).

But the music I'm going to let you check out is the creeeeeeeepy ending theme to Pusher 3: I'm the Angel of Death by Peter Schneidermann. And you can see the trailer for the trilogy HERE.

"the stump serenade"

When the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica finished in March of this year with a pretty polarising series finale - if you're asking me, it was pretty awesome and achieved nearly all of its lofty ambitions, capping the show off pretty damn nicely - I was at once grateful and sad that I was never going to see these characters take another journey along the cosmos. For its flaws, BSG was an achievement, reawakening TV sci-fi (and HARD sci-fi, lo and behold) as a challenging medium where moral, religious and political debate could co-exist with hot robots and gun battles. My favourite show ever, Lost, has arguably done the same thing for TV sci-fi, but the mysterious way that everything is put across in that show makes it less effective at stirring up such topical debate. Ronald D Moore-1, JJ Abrams-0.

But one thing I would definitely miss from watching the show was Bear McCreary's brilliant score, especially when music became so pivotal to the mythology of the show at the end of season three. (If you've never seen BSG before, all I'm going to say is that Bob Dylan may be more important than you ever thought.) Serious, when I wanted to post a eulogy to the show following the finale, I decided to give it up and just sit and relisten to the "Passacaglia" motif a million times in a row.

So some of that awesome Bear McCreary music from the final season is now out in the States, and I've got my copy and guess what? It's great. It all kicks off with a full version of "Gaeta's Lament", the song Gaeta (Alessandro Juliani) sings after he's [SPOILER REDACTED] by [SPOILER REDACTED] after having been [SPOILER REDACTED] by [SPOILER REDACTED]. There's also an instrumental version of the song, and you can check those both out below, as well as this interesting post from McCreary's blog about the writing of the song for the episode "Guess What's Coming To Dinner". (Spoilers, obviously.)

Bear McCreary - Gaeta's Lament

Bear McCreary - Gaeta's Lament Instrumental

UK cats can pre-order the soundtrack here. If you've never seen Ronald D Moore's take on Battlestar Galactica, get to it. You will be seriously hooked once you're a couple of discs into one of the DVD boxsets - and trust me, DON'T LOOK UP SPOILERS. If you know who the Final Five are before you start watching, you're an idiot who hates suspense.

smoke gets in your eyes...

The fact that there's a (seemingly legal) Bollywood remake of Hou Hsiao-Hsien's Three Times truly boggles the mind but I'm looking forward to seeing how this more crowd-pleasing take on the story works out.

Preview the Love Aaj Kal soundtrack here. Read about Three Times here - it really should be on your rental list, like, yesterday.