Archive for July, 2012

Comic Book Sights & Sounds & Sundries

July 30, 2012 | By admin | Add a Comment

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

July 23, 2012 | By admin | Add a Comment

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

July 21, 2012 | By admin | Add a Comment

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

July 13, 2012 | By admin | Add a Comment

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!’

July 8, 2012 | By admin | Add a Comment

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).

Crime, Triple-Time! + Quick News Cuts

July 4, 2012 | By admin | Add a Comment

Blade is a 1973 detective thriller / serial killer thriller that may be the worst shot film of the seventies, whereas ring of Death / Un detective (1969) is a forgotten, seriously underrated gem that’s the best thing in Code Red’s double-feature DVD. Also added to the review mix is a review of Fred Bongusto’s Un detective soundtrack, which frankly grooves, plus news bits including vintage 3D coming to Blu-ray, and Clive Barker’s Nightbreed: The Cabal Cut comes to Rue Morgue’s Cinemacabre this month at the TIFF Bell Lightbox!

Happy 1st & 4th of July. Ahem.

July 3, 2012 | By admin | Add a Comment

To tie in Canada Day (July 1), U.S. Independence (July 4), and the headache of why CanCon continues to get short-shrift from local companies, here’s a lengthy Editor’s Blog, using Leon Marr’s excellent & unavailable Dancing in the Dark (1986), which screened back in January at the TIFF Bell Lightbox with its director and star Martha Henry in attendance.