Throwing back to the week of February 7, 1956, we find a trio of repeats atop the Billboard Hot 100: The Platters’ ‘The Great Pretender,’ Dean Martin’s ‘Memories Are Made of This,’ and Kay Starr’s ‘Rock and Roll Waltz.’
In fourth place that week was another kind of throwback, to the sort of songs that populated the chart in the early 50s. ‘Lisbon Antigua’ is an instrumental track conducted by Nelson Riddle, based on a 1930s Portuguese tune called ‘Lisboa Antiga.’
Continuing a look at my favorite movie music scenes of 2025…
Writer/director Zach Cregger’s Weapons opens with a synopsis of its setup narrated by a young schoolgirl. She describes the disappearance of a classroom full of children from a third grade classroom in the small town of Maybrook, Pennsylvania.
The rest of the film will follow the perspectives of people affected by the event, including the teacher and a parent of one of the missing kids. Like Cregger’s Barbarian (2022), Weapons is a gripping mystery with big scares and big laughs.
Continuing a look at my favorite movie music scenes of 2025…
Paul Thomas Anderson has always had a gift for the perfect needle drop, whether it’s the wall-to-wall 70s and 80s pop hits of Boogie Nights, Shelly Duvall’s plaintive ‘He Needs Me’ in Punch-Drunk Love, or Neil Young’s gorgeous ‘Journey Through the Past’ in Inherent Vice.
He does it again a few times in One Battle After Another but the one that sticks with me the most comes after the film’s extended prologue when we jump ahead 16 years.
Continuing a look at my favorite movie music scenes of 2025…
Yesterday’s scene came from the opening of its movie. Today’s is on the other end of the spectrum, landing right at the end. So please be warned that MASSIVE SPOILERS for the movie Bugonia are present after the jump. If you intend to see the film, and want to go in unspoiled, stop reading now.
Continuing a look at my favorite movie music scenes of 2025…
My next selection is quite different from yesterday’s Sinners extravaganza. This scene isn’t the centerpiece of its film. In fact, it’s the opening credits.
Writer/director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent is a political thriller set in 1970s Brazil. It follows political dissident Armando Solimões as he hides from the military dictatorship and seeks a way out of the country with his young son.
Meet Me In Montauk 