Category: FILM REVIEWS
Assorted Reviews. Literally.
Minor Editorial Blather, and reviews of Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (Warner Home Video) on Blu, Elliot Goldenthal’s underrated score for Batman Forever (La-La Land Records), and Tusi Tamasese’s The Orator / O le tulafale, part of First Peoples Cinema: 1500 Nations, One Tradition at the TIFF Bell Lightbox seroes, ending this weekend.
OCD and As Good As It Gets
James L. Brooks’ Oscar-winning comedy-drama As Good As It Gets gets its due on Blu via Twilight Time + CanCon at TIFF & The First Weekend Club.
Nikkatsu Naughties: Part 1
Impulse Pictures / Synapse have thus far released 6 very naughty entries in the Nikkatsu Roman Porno series, and just erected (get it? get it?) are the first two DVD reviews – Zoom In: Sex Apartments and Zoom Up: Beaver Book Girl. Of course those titles are real. Why would I make those up?
Soundtrack Reviews + News
Just uploaded: soundtrack reviews for Lalo Schifrin’s The Liquidator (FSM), Fred Katz’ The Little Shop of Horrors (Krizterland), Michael Small’s The Postman Always Rings Twice (Intrada), and from La-La Land Records comes Henry Mancini’s Mommie Dearest and Jerry Goldsmith’s Warning Shot (finally!).
Space Tales
Minor editorial blather on NASA’s Curiosity rover, and reviews of Outland on Blu-ray (Warner Home Video), Jerry Goldsmith’s soundtrack on 2CDs (Film score Monthly), and soundtrack reviews of David Newman’s Galaxy Quest (La-La Land Records) and James Horner’s The Amazing Spider-Man (Sony Classical).
Comic Book Sights & Sounds & Sundries
Blu-ray review of Wrath of the Titans (Warner Home Video), soundtrack reviews of Henry Jackman’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and Danny Elfman’s Men in Black 3 (Sony Classical) and odd bits of info.
Rita Hayworth: Part I
Reviews of Twilight Time’s new Cover Girl Blu-ray + Sony’s old, olde Gilda DVD, which is in dire need of a HD overhaul, Criterion-style.
Mini Moguls + Tangerine Dream’s Legend
Editor’s Blog, plus reviews of Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel and The Aggression Scale (Anchor Bay) & Lockout (Alliance / Sony) + CD review of BSX’s new Legend CD.
Architecture in Film: The Pruitt-Igoe Myth
Review of Chad Freidrich’s excellent 2011 doc The Pruitt-Igoe Myth (First Run Features), America’s controversial public housing project that lived between 1954-1971 before each of the complex’s 33 buildings were imploded. Also added: related review media links.
‘Watch it Without Glasses!’
Editor’s Blog on CinemaScope and reviews of The Robe (Fox) and Demetrius and the Gladiators (Twilight Time), plus Bella Darvi in Hell and High Water (Fox), and soundtrack reviews of Alfred Newman’s The Robe (La-La Land) and Franz Waxman’s Demetrius and the Gladiators (FSM).
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