The birth of the “jukebox score” is often credited to George Lucas’ “American Graffiti” and the film school generation. But it took another couple of decades — during which popular music, and the act ...

The "needle drop" is a colloquial term for when a movie or TV show uses a song, either written for the piece of media or outside of its context, for a particular scene. Its use can be diegetic or ...

We could write this article about almost any song used in Quentin’s 10 films — nine if you count Kill Bill: Volume 1 and 2 as a single movie — and make a convincing case for why it’s the best needle ...