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True to Quentin Tarantino’s signature filmmaking style, the soundtrack of his spaghetti western epic Django Unchained features an eclectic mix of songs. The needle-drops in Django Unchained range from hip-hop to country rock to R&b soul to operatic compositions from previous westerns’ original scores. Tarantino included as many tracks as he could from the maestro of spaghetti western music, Ennio Morricone. A handful of acclaimed artists recorded new songs specifically for the Django Unchained soundtrack, like Rick Ross and John Legend. Frank Ocean wrote a song for the movie, but (via NME) Tarantino couldn’t include it on the soundtrack because “there just wasn’t a scene for it.”

Ever since Mr. Blonde tortured a kidnapped cop to the sounds of Stealers Wheel’s “Stuck in the Middle with You,” Tarantino has been renowned for his iconic soundtrack choices. Tarantino had previously included western music by Morricone and...

Miramax and El Rey Network announced today four new cast additions to the Albuquerque-based production of From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series, set to return for a third season later this year. Ana de la Reguera (Jane the Virgin, Narcos) will have a recurring role as Lord Venganza Verdugo, one of the seven remaining culebra Lords whose ancient roots and personal history put them at the center of an epic clash between good and evil. Also joining the cast is Chilean martial arts action star, Marko Zaror (Machete Kills), as Zolo, an Aztec warrior trained in hell, and iconic horror movie maven Tom Savini (Friday the 13th, From Dusk Till Dawn). Savini, who starred as Sex Machine in the original film, lights up the brand new role of Burt, a retired demon hunter who smokes more medical marijuana than he sells.

Returning to the El Rey Network supernatural action horror...

Odd List Ivan Radford 7 Jan 2014 - 06:37

Last year may only be a memory, but its film themes linger in the mind. Here's Ivan's pick of 2013's best soundtracks...

Just a quick scan down the list below reveals an extraordinary breadth of genres and subject matters, from imposing, expensive science fiction films to quiet, intimate stories about men at sea on boats or outlaws breaking out of prison to be with their wives. Disparate though the films are, they're all linked by at least one common motif: their music is utterly brilliant.

So with 2014 already well underway, and an entire new wave of films with great music in them beckoning, join us as we look back to the movies of last year, their finest soundtracks, and the must-listen pieces of music you can dig out on each one.

1. Gravity (Steven Price)

Must-listen track: Don't Let Go

When does sound...

Feature Ivan Radford 21 Feb 2013 - 07:47

Quentin Tarantino's use of pre-recorded songs comes under the spotlight in Ivan's latest Music in Film...

“I don’t normally use original score. I don’t trust any composer to do it.”

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That’s Quentin Tarantino in a nutshell: his love of music rivals his love of film. A new Tarantino album is now an event in itself, so it’s hard not to devote an entire column to the director with Django Unchained in cinemas.

Eclectic is the word most used to describe Tarantino’s soundtracks, which hop around his record collection like an excited teenager who just snuck into his parent’s bedroom. Django is no exception, but marks the largest amount of original music in any of his films to date.

Just how big a deal is that?

The director’s use of music has changed over the years. Back...

Where other filmmakers are content to fill their audiences ears with the latest garbage from Chris Brown, Quentin Tarantino mines the most obscure corners of the past to make his movies sound amazing. His new movie, Django Unchained continues this pattern with music from people like Brother Dege, Elisa Toffoli, Jim Croce, and Ennio Morricone (it is a spaghetti western after all). You don.t have to wait for Django.s Christmas day release to find out what Tarantino has in store for your ears. The entire Django Unchained soundtrack is now online and available to listen to for free. In fact, you can listen to the entire thing, right now, right here. Critics have written volumes about Quentin Tarantino.s gift for blazing dialogue, his skill at choosing actors, his penchant for wanton violence, but maybe what doesn.t get talked about enough is his knack for picking the...

We've spent the better (hotter?) portion of the summer reviving our fascination with the concept of the Ultimate Hotties of the Year -- in subcategories like Comedy, Action/Thriller, Crime-Fighting, Geek, and Vampires (apparently they're popular). In 2007, readers voted Angelina Jolie and Wentworth Miller as prom king and queen; this year, Robert Pattinson led your Top 25. And since favoritism can be limiting, here are the 25 hotties you can't believe we missed. Now that '09's long, strange trip is over, some EW staffers decided -- in the spirit of "why the heck not?" -- to create our own lists of Things That Are Hot. Slezak and Mandi followed the rules and chose broadly but from within the parameters of the past year, while Dalton and Josh went the esoteric route of just naming random people and/or characters they've at one point found intriguing. Hey, whatever. They go around the...