#Tom Holkenborg

[mikyapixie]

New poster for Sonic The Hedgehog 3 featuring Shadow & Maria!!!

The film will release in theaters on December 20th!

[cineor]

Tom Holkenborg to reportedly (via film music reporter) return as composer for Sonic Movie 3! ‼️👀🔥

Tom was composer for the latest sonic movies, Sonic movie 1 & Sonic movie 2 👀

[brokehorrorfan]

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga's soundtrack is available on vinyl for $45 via Mutant. The score is composed by Tom "Junkie XL" Holkenborg (Mad Max: Fury Road, Deadpool).

Expected to release on July 26, the 2xLP album is pressed on 140-gram colored vinyl. It's housed in a tri-fold jacket designed by Mo Shafeek with liner notes from Holkenborg.

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Tom Holkenborg - London Suite in C Major from the Mortal Engines Soundtrack

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Some Examples of his work under the Cut. Tagging @polls-about-music for fun (;

[agentnico]

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024) review

Someone should call child services, as Kong uses a baby monkey as a weapon and flails him around like a whip, using the poor little fella to bash against incoming enemies. Granted the little chap is durable, but like….. I’m sorry, this movie is ridiculous. Like I can’t even!

Plot: Godzilla and the almighty Kong face a colossal threat hidden deep within the planet, challenging their very existence and the survival of the human race.

2021’s Godzilla vs. Kong holds a special place in my heart in that during COVID-19 it was one of the first and only films to come out during lockdown. I recall sitting in my living room suffering from high depression (I mean, who wasn’t at that time, am I right??) and I stuck on the Godzilla vs Kong film with low expectations……and I had the greatest time ever. By no means was it a masterpiece. It’s even far away from being a good film, but at that time when I was cinema-deprived and life was in a constant state of limbo, a big trashy Hollywood blockbuster with two massive CGI monsters beating the living crap of each other was exactly the entertainment I needed.

In cometh Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. Naturally we’re no longer in a pandemic so the WOW factor is gone, and also Godzilla Minus One only recently came out reminding us that Godzilla can be sophisticated when need be. That being said, am I opposed to seeing some ridiculously over-the-top kaiju brawls for absolutely no other reason other than Hollywood wanting to throw money against the wall and seeing what happens? Yes. Look, from the set-up the whole thing doesn’t make sense in the first place. I get it is fantasy and suspension of disbelief is required, but it’s a giant walking nuclear power plant that holds the title of king of the monsters against a bloody monkeh. I don’t care how cool or likeable Kong is, if we’re being realistic he’d get smushed just by touching Godzilla. Like, ain’t that lizard boi radioactive?? Last time I checked radioactivity is pretty fatal. Kong should have developed multiple forms of cancer since the 2021 film, I’m just saying. But again, that’s if we’re thinking logically, however as we’ve learned from these MonsterVerse movies, logic isn’t a word that exists. So let’s enjoy the lizard and monkeh for what they are - bring it on!!

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire is exactly what you expect it to be… in the last 30 minutes. The first hour and a half is actually a casual sequel to Kong: Skull Island, with Godzilla a fleeting cameo just getting up to random shenanigans, with every appearance lasting no longer than 5 seconds. I’m serious, Godzilla to this movie is like Scrat is to the Ice Age movies. If you recall the little saber-toothed squirrel hardly ever connects to the main plot-line of those films, and instead is only obsessed with getting his stupid acorn. Same with Godzilla, he fights random kaijus just cause. He takes naps in the Colosseum just cause. He eats nuclear plants for breakfast just cause. He turns Barbie-level pink just cause. His entire role in this movie is just cause. Otherwise this is through and through a King Kong movie. Not that I’m complaining, if you want to make a somewhat engaging and emotionally resonant narrative (as if this movie has a plot!), it’s easier to focus on Kong as he has the baggage of being lonely and wanting to find a home and more of his kind, so there’s something there to work with. So we spend most of the movie wit Kong as he explores Hollow Earth that’s discovered from the previous film, and I quite enjoyed all that. Does the movie need to be 2 hours long? Nope, as the whole Hollow Earth story-line is dragged out so much when in fact all that happens could have easily been told in the size of a short film. Essentially nothing much happens is what I’m saying. Like the whole thing is a set-up for the inevitable and highly anticipated final showdown that we’ve all paid for.

About the final showdown - it’s so dumb. I mean the whole movie is dumb, but the final battle breaks any last remaining realm of reason and turns into this crazy bonkers monsters v monsters smashy-bashy bonkers beat ‘em up, and it was absolutely fantastic! Again, I fully admit the stupidity of it all, but watching this movie’s finale in a crowded theatre with everyone cheering, laughing, clapping and howling alongside all the CGI madness that is thrown at our faces - it was awesome! I’d give the final 30 minutes a 10/10 score easily, as it is exactly what we want from a Godzilla and Kong movie. Godzilla spears Kong through a pyramid and then immediately follows that up with a suplex. That right there is cinematic genius!! The rest of the movie is fine and has its moments, but is just a meandering set-up for that ending.

This being a MonsterVerse movie naturally there are also some human characters that we are forced to care about. Like I give a f***, gimme me more lizard and monkeh!!! I want them here, and I want them now! To be fair the producers must have listened to the audience feedback as there is much less human stuff in this movie. There’s a useless sub-plot with Rebecca Hall and her adopted daughter that was so boring and generic and was the dullest part of the movie. Brian Tyree Henry and Dan Stevens are a delight though, providing some enjoyable comedic tongue in cheek, with Stevens especially excelling at the one-liner quips. Nice also to see Stevens teaming back up with director Adam Wingard, the two having previously worked on the wonderful indie thriller The Guest. Honestly if you have not seen The Guest you’re missing out big time - a delightful slice of action horror with a fantastic atmosphere that sucks you in with a dash of dry black comedy edge.

Speaking of Adam Wingard, he’s evidently a good match with these goofy Fast & Furious-level silly monster flicks. He directs the movie using a fun colourful visual palette, with some fantastic sci-fi set pieces, and Hollow Earth is reminiscent very much of a Jules Verne-type adventure locale, very much in the vain of a Journey to the Centre of the Earth, or a Mysterious Island. There’s also a strong 80’s retro vibe to the movie with the techno-synth music score from Junkie XL that had strong Thor: Ragnarok feels to it. I must say through all its stupidity, visually the film is really cinematic and looks awesome on the big screen.

I had a solid time with Godzilla x Kong, especially with those last 30 minutes. Satisfyingly entertaining blockbuster fast-food. It does get a while to get there, and also the movie is fit with so many plot holes and inconsistencies, and also it really did feel like the writers were making things up as they were going along, but I don’t care. This was never intended to be high calibre award worthy filmmaking. It’s only a monkeh, standing in front of a radioactive lizard, asking him to fight together. Really entertaining and super fun. Best part was when it was revealed that Kong could talk and screamed “it’s KONGIN TIME!!’

Overall score: 6/10

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Really dug Rebel Moon! Maybe the most visually beautiful film I’ve seen this year!

[danbenzvi]

On The Jukebox: "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (Original Motion Picture Score)"

Original music composed by Tom Holkenborg aka Junkie XL.

[mndvx]

REBEL MOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNN

[thecomposerthatwaspromised]

A third example concerns Tom Holkenborg, a high-profile composer who often writes under the name Junkie XL and whose film credits include Mad Max: Fury Road, Deadpool and the Sonic the Hedgehog movies. In early 2020, Holkenborg lost all four of his in-studio assistants within a few weeks, and in resignation emails obtained by the Guardian two of them say they were physically and mentally exhausted and needed to step away. When Holkenborg subsequently advertised for a new assistant on his YouTube channel, the industry group Teammates talked to people who’d worked for him and recommended its members “do not apply for this position”.

Holkenborg, through a spokesman, denied allegations that his studio had become a toxic work environment and said it was inaccurate to characterize the departures as a walkout, because different people cited different reasons for leaving. A number of the assistants ended up coming back, working either part time or remotely as the Covid-19 pandemic took hold. But none of them ever returned full time, and Holkenborg acknowledged it had been “challenging” to find replacements. Texts written by his employees show he lost at least one high-profile project, the superhero movie Black Adam, for lack of staff.

[mikyapixie]

New character posters for Sonic The Hedgehog 3!!!

The film will release in theaters on December 20th!

[myevilmouse]

Tag I’m It

Tag 10 People You Want To Get To Know Better

Thank you for the tag @hobbit0fhobbiton​!

Three ships:

Luke/Mara...ah just let the hero be fuckin happy, you know?

Thryce (Thrawn/Pryce)...my evil OTP

Braime (Brienne/Jaime)...enemies to lovers *chef’s kiss*  Damn I shipped them SO HARD IT WAS THE ONLY REASON I WATCHED

First ever ship: I was, like you, totally smitten with Christine and the Phantom but I do think my first ever ship was Briar Rose/Prince Philip cause I’m Old.

Last song/album: We had on some German music television marathon and they played something that made me change the channel but I think the name of the thing was “Charlie Brown” and it was a “new release.”  It was not good at all so sorry I am not going to google the artist...

If I could say last music I listened to that I liked...husband is watching Fury Road and the whole last 10 minutes, those strings here at the end are quite lovely. *googles composer* Ok Tom Holkenborg, you get the shout out!  (too bad the film didn’t deserve this score haha sorry not a fan)

Last movie: Kinda funny considering your username @hobbit0fhobbiton​ but HBO was showing Return of the King today and it’s one of those films I can’t turn off if I catch it...

It was the lighting of the beacons scene, I mean, c’mon cinema doesn’t get better really.

Currently reading: Just finished Elevation by Stephen King (novella is generous--more like a long short story)

Currently watching: Terminator Dark Fate is on the telly and I love me a good action film so it’s my current background noise.

Last thing you wrote/are writing right now: The last things I wrote were two drabbles:  one about “sparring with Luke” and one about "art gallery with Thrawn” (those were prompts from helpful third parties).  Last thing I published on AO3 is my Luke/Hera ship pioneer Sound Recognition, and it’s a short little thing but I like it!

Thank you again so much for the tag!  It’s fun to write something while I wait for my muse to wake up! 🤗💙

[brokehorrorfan]

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire's soundtrack is available on vinyl for $40 via Waxwork Records. The score is composed by Tom "Junkie XL" Holkenborg (Mad Max: Fury Road, Godzilla vs. Kong) and Antonio Di Iorio.

The 2xLP album is pressed on 180-gram colored vinyl. It's housed in a gatefold jacket with matte satin coating featuring layout and design by Matt Needle and a 12x12 art print. It's expected to ship in June.

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