Category: EDITOR’S BLOG
Mortal Kombat: Part I
Review of New Line / Warner Home Video’s Blu-ray edition of Mortal Kombat (1995) , plus some editorial blather on the franchise and its latest online incarnation…
Limited Editions and Such
Editor’s Blog on how the business model for soundtrack labels like Intrada have changed over 20 years, as recently articulated by Intrada Records’ Douglass Fake…
Big Science on the IMAX screen, Part I
This year marks the end of NASA’s shuttle program, and tied to the retirement of the fleet of three remaining ‘flying bricks’ are a trio of IMAX documentaries: Hubble 3D and Space Station 3D (both Warner Home Video), Solarmax from Sling Shot Entertainment, plus the 2000 non-IMAX Discovery Channel doc Inside the Space Station (Artisan)…
Cancon I: A Ticket to the Heavenly Mother Lode
In the first of an ongoing series on Cancon (Canadian content) films made during the tax shelter years, we start with Charlton Heston’s underrated directorial venture Mother Lode (Warner Home Video), which isn’t a Canadian film per se, but is loaded with Cancon talent and was filmed in B.C. Because the film co-starred Nick Mancuso, I’ve added a review of a true Cancon film, the equally underrated drama Ticket to Heaven (Echo Bridge), but check out the Editor’s Blog prior to the reviews…
Hot & Bothered: The Chase, by Arthur Penn and Sam Spiegel
Editor’s Blog on the recent screening of producer Sam Spiegel’s The Chase (1966), as part of their retrospective on director Arthur Penn, plus a review of the film and John Barry’s score…
Doing it right: Gerhardt, Korngold, and RCA
First reviews of the newly remastered CDs of the classic RCA released, Charles Gerhardt conducted, George Korngold produced Classic Film Music series from the seventies, plus an appreciation of this enduring string of audiophile albums…
Dog Tales I: Lassie (1943-1945)
Editorial blather + links to reviews in a new pooches-on-film series, starting with the first two entries in MGM’s Lassie series – Lassie Come Home and Son of Lassie – newly wrapped up in a 2-disc set from Warner Home Video…
Soundtrack News & Other Tidbits
Latest lengthy tall of new and upcoming soundtrack releases, and other filmic news tidbits…
TV Noir (sort of): Part I
The first part of TV Noir begins with a review of Too Good to be True, a 1988 TV movie remake of Leave Her to Heaven, but before you read the review, do read my editorial blather on the TBL’s recent 35mm print screening of the original Technicolor film…
Rituals returns! and other cult DVD news
Yes, Lawrence Dane’s Rituals is back on the release slate, as are fellow Cancon classics The Last Chase and Julie Darling, plus new stuff from Shout! Factory…
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