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Career Intersections
Review of Warner Home Video’s sparkling Blu-ray of The Specialist, starring the combustible team of Stallone, Stone, Woods, Steiger, Roberts… and Barry!
And Justice for All: The Films of Norman Jewison, Part II
Follow-up Editor’s Blog on the current Norman Jewison retrospective at the TIF Bell Lightbox, with a review of his pastry puff, fluff-tart confection (say that line fast) The Thomas Crown Affair (1968).
Caving with Werner Herzog
Blog & film review of Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010), where Werner Herzog films compelling, 32,000 year old cave drawings in 3D.
George Pan Cosmatos, Part I
Part 1 of a breezy retropspective on director George Pan Cosmatos, starting with a Blu-ray review of Cobra (Warner Home Video), featuring Sylvester Stallone and Brigitte Nielsen.
And Justice for All: The Films of Norman Jewison, Part I
Editor’s Blog on the latest Norman Jewison retrospective at the TIF Bell Lightbox, with a review of his Oscar-winning hit In the Heat of the Night (1967), and multimedia links…
Getting Socially Updated & Upgraded
Editor’s Blog on the integration of social media at KQEK.com and its blogs (namely Facebook & Twitter), and what goes into publishing a blog simultaneously on Word Press and Blogger pages (because you all wanted to know dearly)…
The Return of The Egyptian (1954)
Lengthy review of Twilight Time’s grogeous Blu-ray edition of The Egyptian (1954), one of Fox’s best ancient epics and the movie with which Marlon Brando didn’t want to have anything to do, plus a review of Desirée (1954), the fine, fine movie he made instead…
Women in Prison, Part III: Jungle Warriors (1984)
Yes, there’s a Part 3, and the focus is Ernst R. von Theumer’s Jungle Warriors / Euer Weg führt durch die Hölle (1984), the third and final WIP film in Panik House’s dynamic trilogy. Not only is there a film review, but a detailed transcription of the vile theme song lyrics, written by a drunken donkey…
Soundtrack Reviews
Uploaded are reviews of Christian Henson’s The Devil’s Double (Lakeshore Records), Basil Poledouris’ Breakdown (3 packed CDs from La-La Land!), Alfons Conde’s Viento en contra (MovieScore Media), and from Screamworks / MovieScore Media a pair of horror scores: David Julyan’s Heartless, and Nathaniel Levisay’s Dawning…
Stanley Kubrick: Part II
In Part 2 of this Stanley Kubrick series, the focus is on Barry Lyndon (newly released by Warner Home Video on Blu-ray) and Jon Ronson’s Channel 4 documentary Stanley Kubrick’s Boxes (2008). I’ve got reviews of both, some helpful links, and an Editor’s Blog that someone at the TIFF Bell Lightbox shoud read…
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