The February edition of FSM ONLINE is now live for your reading and listening pleasure. This month’s cover story is an interview with ZACK RYAN about his haunting score for Steven Soderbergh’s PRESENCE. Also on the cover is our annual awards event, THE 2025 FSMies (vote now!). Our regular features this issue include an interview with PHILIP KLEIN, composer of the Colman Domingo Netflix thriller THE MADNESS; THE CENTURY BEYOND THE SPOTLIGHT, PART 1, highlighting hidden gems from the first 25 years of the 21st century; SOUNDING OFF ON SAKAMOTO, detailing the work of the late Japanese master Ryuichi Sakamoto; Cary and Vikram discuss the music categories of this year’s OSCARS; HANNES DE MAEYER reunites with Dries Vos on the Starz thriller THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR; PAUL EDWARD-FRANCIS channels the classic superhero sound for HENRY DANGER: THE MOVIE; a look at new written volumes on ELMER BERNSTEIN; TREY TOY returns for Season 2 of CASTLEVANIA: NOCTURNE; a chat with composer ALAN WILLIAMS; plenty of album reviews, including SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 3, FLIGHT RISK and SPIDER-MAN 2; plus embedded audio clips, and more. Enjoy!

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