You could say that the seed for Cinematic was sown in Kyle Eastwood’s 2017 album, In Transit, which featured an arrangement of Ennio Morricone’s ‘Love Theme from Cinema Paradiso’. Morricone also features here, in the shape of his beautiful theme song composed for the 1975 film ‘Per Le Antiche Scale (Down the Ancient Staircase’), along with 10 other reinterpretations of celebrated pieces of film music. The album gets off to a sizzling start with the Lalo Schifrin theme song from ‘Bullitt’, with Eastwood punching out the familiar bass ostinato (later doubled by pianist McCormack) with a real crispness and bite. There’s a bona fide jazz standard, too, courtesy of the Henry Mancini/Johnny Mercer song, ‘Charade’, performed in the 1963 film of the same name starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn. There’s an especially dramatic reinvention of Bernard Herrmann’s Taxi Driver, with McCormack and Higginbottom perfectly locking in together in the sequence of four accelerandos heard in the preludial opening. Collins solos brilliantly in ‘The Eiger Sanction’, while French singer Camille Bertault impresses on the Oscar-winning song ‘Les Moulins de mon cœur (The Windmills of Your Minds’), featured in the 1968 film, The Thomas Crown Affair. No surprise to see ‘Gran Torino’ in the song list (co-composed by Eastwood Sr and Jr, plus Michael Stevens and Jamie Cullum), heard first sung by Hugh Coltman, later reprised as a moody instrumental.