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Soundtrack Reviews + News
Just uploaded: soundtrack reviews for Lalo Schifrin’s The Liquidator (FSM), Fred Katz’ The Little Shop of Horrors (Krizterland), Michael Small’s The Postman Always Rings Twice (Intrada), and from La-La Land Records comes Henry Mancini’s Mommie Dearest and Jerry Goldsmith’s Warning Shot (finally!).
Space Tales
Minor editorial blather on NASA’s Curiosity rover, and reviews of Outland on Blu-ray (Warner Home Video), Jerry Goldsmith’s soundtrack on 2CDs (Film score Monthly), and soundtrack reviews of David Newman’s Galaxy Quest (La-La Land Records) and James Horner’s The Amazing Spider-Man (Sony Classical).
Mars: Meet Curiosity
Earlier this morning NASA’s little rover Curiosity landed on the surface of Mars, and sent back two pictures of itself to let everyone know it was alive & well. Wanna see them?
Comic Book Sights & Sounds & Sundries
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
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
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
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!’
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
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.
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.
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