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Fritz Lang’s Indian Epics (and thunderous thighs)
Editor’s Blog & review of Fritz Lang’s Indian epic – Tiger of Eschnapur + The Indian Tomb (1959) – which screened this month at the TIFF Bell Lightbox as part of the Indian Expressionism series.
Soundtrack Reviews: A Quintet of Heroes
CD reviews of Thomas Newman’s Skyfall (Sony), plus from La-La Land we have Hans Zimmer’s Black Rain (1989), James Horner’s Krull, David Newman’s The Phantom (1996), and John Ottman’s X2: X-Men United.
Video Game Soundtracks + Composer Interview
Podcast interview with composer / orchestrator Penka Kouneva regarding her latest CD, A Warrior’s Journey (Howlin’ Wolfe Records) plus reviews of UBISOFT’s double header – Assassin’s Creed III by Lorne Balfe and Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation by Winifred Phillips.
Dolph Lundgren IS Red Scorpion
Review of Synapse’s swanky Red Scorpion Blu-ray, starring Dolph Lungren
Yoav Goren: Creating the Epic Sound of Immediate Music’s Trailer Soundtracks
Podcast with composer / producer Yoav Goren, founder of the speciality trailer music library Immediate Music, plus review of Goren’s latest CD release, Trailerhead: Triumph. Also fresh: Editor’s Blog on the idiotic decision to cancel TVOnatio’s Saturday Night at the Movies.
A Weaker Mystique for Denmark’s The Killing / Forbrydelsen, Season 2
Nit-picky review of the issues faced by the writers of The Killing / Forbrydelsen: Season 2 when the producers cut the episode run from 20 to 10, and perhaps waited too long for a follow-up season + quick thoughts on that familiar-looking Skyfall poster.
Lorne Balfe scores Prince Harry’s Arctic Heroes
Time’s tight today, so there’ll be no editorial blather, and just the facts. Uploaded is a podcast interview with composer Lorne Balfe regarding his recent scoring of the BBC documentary Harry Welcomes Arctic Heroes [M] (2011) in which four British war vets ski to the North Pole under the sponsorship of Prince Harry for the […]
Canuckle Horror
Just uploaded are a pair of Canuckle horror films from Anchor Bay Entertainment Canada – Justin McConell’s supernatural woodsy thriller The Collapsed and John Geddes’ Civil War zombie epic Exit Humanity – and quick notes on Scorpion Entertainment’s release of Death Ship (yes, Death Ship!) on Blu and American Horror.
Bye Bye Birdie & Ann-Margrock
New at the beginning of this annoyingly chilly week – a review of Bye Bye Birdie (1963), George Sidney’s blazing Technicolor film version of the surreal, satirical Broadway musical. Twilight Time’s Blu-ray looks & sounds gorgeous, and Ann-Marget (“Ann-Margrock” to others) leaps from the TV and screams at you in DTS!
New Production Diaries at Big Head Amusements / Thoughts on International Independent Videostore Day
In the latest Editor’s Blog: some compact thoughts & digressions about International Independent Videostore Day, which marked its second year this past Saturday October 2th. Yes Virginia, video stores still exist. Quite a few of them, really.
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