The January edition of FSM ONLINE is now live for your reading and listening pleasure. This month’s cover story is an interview with JOBY TALBOT, who details his work on the musical prequel WONKA, starring Timothee Chalamet. The co-cover story is our annual YEAR IN REVIEW coverage, with editorials by Erik Heine, Jon Kaplan and Al Kaplan, Vikram Lakhanpal and Cary Wong. Also this issue are an interview with HARRY GREGSON-WILLIAMS regarding his work on the second CHICKEN RUN film and second season of THE GILDED AGE; LAURA KARPMAN joins us again, soon after The Marvels, to detail her jazzy score for AMERICAN FICTION; Erik Heine dissects ANTHONY WILLIS’ written score for SALTBURN; MAC QUAYLE conjures Messiaen for Sam Esmail’s LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND; FIL EISLER scores FAST CHARLIE for veteran action-thriller director Philip Noyce; CHRISTIAN HESCHL finds the sound of National Geographic’s LOST CITIES REVEALED WITH ALBERT LIN; AMANDY CAWLEY scores the tower defense game SIEGEBREAKER; the eclectic GUY MICHELMORE acquaints us with his career in British television and beyond; plenty of album reviews, including MIGRATION, SOCIETY OF THE SNOW and HOOK: THE ULTIMATE EDITION; plus embedded audio clips, and more. Enjoy!

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