Category: EDITOR’S BLOG
Canada's Top Ten on DVD (sort of)
Whenever a list of nominated or winning titles in a best-of or industry awards tally is revealed, there’s a curiosity among some (me) as to what’s currently out or will be out on DVD…
Dark Sunday
Today marks two tragic anniversaries in Canada: the collision of a French munitions ship with a Norwegian vessel in 1917 that essentially flattened a whole swathe of the city of Halifax, and killed a thousand, and maimed nine thousand more; and the tenth anniversary of the Ecole Polytechnique massacre, where nutbar Marc Lepine set out to kill women at Montreal’s Ecole Polytechnique because he blamed women for all of his woes…
Soundtracks Reviews (B)
Uploaded Friday are soundtrack reviews for a pair of MovieScore Media releases, the Swedish label that’s managed to build up what’s arguably the most diverse international roster of composers around…
Soundtracks Reviews (A) & Film Music News
With the YoYo bug now gone from the system, I’ll be uploading batches of reviews each day, along with some blogs originally slated for earlier uploads. First off is a pair of reviews. Jerry Goldsmith’s short scores for I.Q. (1994) and Seconds (1966) get their premiere releases on one disc from La-La Land Records, as well as a remastered and expanded CD of Joe Renzetti’s Child’s Play score from 1988…
The Return of YoYo
The updates for this week have been delayed as the return of an old nemesis has clobbered the operating system, yet again. While core data is retrieved and the main machine’s operating system and files are rebuilt overnight (gee, I’m gettin’ awfully good at this rabbit rubbish), the wave of reviews will be delayed until Sunday…
(First) Horror Efforts
Although Robbie Bryan had written and starred in The Stand-In (1999), iMurders marks his feature directorial debut, as well as his first effort in the horror – a genre that many filmmakers use to make a commercial mark as well as learn the ropes of feature filmmaking before moving on to more personal or riskier projects…
Soundtrack News
I’ll have another set of soundtrack reviews out shortly, but available shortly on CD and MP3 are the following soundtracks from the usual mail order shops…
Arrabal, Jodorowsky, Makavejev… and Brass?
Before his decadent switch to sexploitation and erotica, Tinto Brass made a pair of films wherein he experimented with sophisticated editing concepts (visually and aurally) to create narratives from loosely drawn concepts, as well as inject some commentary on the political and social turmoil of the times…
Soundtrack Updates
Uploaded late last week is an interview with composer Richard Marvin, a successful composer – hugely successful, actually – in TV (Six Feet Under, In Treatment) as well as feature films. A longtime associate of director Jonathan Mostow, Marvin’s latest score for the film Surrogates *finally* gets a release date of November 10th as a downloadable MP3 album and CD…
Killer Kiddies
As it happens, over the past two weeks a quartet of killer kiddie films came out on DVD, some possessing variable levels of good, weak, or downright awful qualities…
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