Archive for January, 2012
Yilmaz Güney, Part II: The Poor Ones (1975)
In Part II, I review The Poor Ones / Zavallilar (1975), recently screened at the TIFF Bell Lightbox as part of their series The Way Home: The Films of Turkish Master Yilmaz Güney.
Ti West’s The Innkeepers
Reviews of Ti West’s latest shocker, The Innkeepers, and Jeff Grace’s soundtrack album (Screamworks / MovieScore Media), plus some opinionated blather regarded big stupid actor heads.
John Guillermin at Fox
Reviews of three films British director John Guillermin (The Towering Inferno) made at Twentieth Century-Fox during the 1960s: Guns at Batasi (Fox), Rapture (freshly released on Blu-ray by Twilight Time), and The Blue Max (Fox)
Festivals-a-Go-Go — Cold War Sci-Fi on the Big Screen
This week the TIFF Bell Lightbox launches its 2-month series Attack the Bloc: Cold War Science Fiction from Behind the Iron Curtain, and I’ve added a list of what’s screening, what’s on DVD, and why these films matter.
Soundtrack Reviews & Score Release Tally
Tally of the latest soundtrack releases, plus reviews of Tyler Bates’ engrossing score for the sci-fi thriller The Darkest Hour and Craig Richey’s Answers to Nothing (both from Lakeshore Records); Danny Elfman’s complete music for Scrooged (La-La Land); Howard Shore’s A Dangerous Method and John Williams’ War Horse (both Sony); and the original Casino Royale (Kritzerland).
Yilmaz Güney, Part I – Yol (1982)
Review of Yilmaz Güney’s Cannes-decorated Yol (1982), part of the TIFF Bell Lightbox’s tribute to one of Turkey’s most important directors, beginning this week.
Jan Kadar does CanCon – Lies My Father Told Me (1975)
Review of Ergo Media’s new DVD of Lies My Father Told Me(1975), Jan Kadar’s film version of Ted Allan’s semi-autobiographical tale of 1920s Jewish Montreal.
Just Don’t Go There…
Just uploaded: reviews of Synapse Films’ snappy new Blu-ray of Frank Henenlotter’s classic Frankenhooker, and a similar themed Frankenstein riff, Ralph Nelson’s Embryo (1976).
Horror Tales + Desert Noir
Cluster upload of 3 horror films on Blu-ray from late 2011: Apollo 18 (Anchor Bay U.S.), Bereavement (Anchor Bay Canada), and Final Destination 5 (Warner Home Video), plus two unique desert noir films: one’s only available widescreen on laserdisc – Carl Colpaert’s superb Delusion from 1991 – and the other’s a hard to pin down hybrid of noir, comic book crime, and a live-action Itchy & Scratchy cartoon – Jonathan Vara’s South of Heaven (Synapse).
Suburban Tales III
Blu-ray reviews of three takes on suburban paranoia: Joe Cornish’s Attack the Block (Sony), Tom Holland’s Fright Night (Twilight Time), and J.J. Abrams’ Super 8 (Paramount), plus some Editorius Blathorious regarding review updates + upcoming film projects (mine, not yours).
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