Bought as a gift, Tunes From The Toons – Best Of Hanna Barbera includes many favourite cartoon themes; Wacky Races, The Flintstones etcetera. [ HMV.co.uk ]
Danny Elfman delivers a dark, stirring musical accompaniment to Tim Burton’s first outing of the Dark Knight: 1989’s Batman. [ HMV.co.uk ]
Prince’s take on Batman – includes songs used within the narrative – as when The Joker defaces art in the museum having gassed the staff and visitors. [ HMV.co.uk ]
Stanley Kubrik’s Dr Strangelove or How I Learned To Stopped Worrying And Love The Bomb is a cold war comedy. George C. Scott’s General fears the Communist threat, Peter Sellers’ Mandrake has to contend with the string in his leg, and in the War Room: Peter Sellers’ US President tries to prevent fighting whilst his eponymous Doctor fights internal conflict – his own past. [ HMV.co.uk ]
Homer’s Odyssey as seen through the Coen brothers’ kaleidoscope – Ulysses Everett McGill (George Clooney) escapes from a chain-gang in an attempt to prevent his ex-wife (Holly Hunter) from remarrying. White supremacists, floods, bank robbers, sirens, blues guitarists, conmen and politicians all feature in this comedy adventure. [ HMV.co.uk ]