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Soundtrack Reviews + News
Reviews of four fun video game soundtracks: Bear McCreary’s SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy SEALs and Hans Zimmer & Company’s Crysis II (both from La-La Land Records), and Inon Zur’s Dragon Age II (Bioware) and Crysis (Sumthing Else), plus news regarding recent Q&As with composer Winifred Phillips (Legend of the Guardians), and Special Features producer Charles de Lauzirikia regarding Universal’s recent Legend (1984) Blu-ray…
“Pilot Error”
Reviews of three films dealing with pilots and the huge risks and responsabilities within their grips: Clarence Brown’s 1933 melodrama Night Flight (Warner Home Video), Ralph Nelson’s still-potent Fate is the Hunter (Twlight Time) from 1964, and Henry Koster’s No Highway in the Sky drama from 1951 (still unavailable on DVD)…
August is Human Tomato Season
First helmetcan view of EdgeWalk, the CN Tower’s new amusement in which you’re just ‘blowin’ in the wind’…
Colour Noir
Review of Richard Fleischer’s superb ‘colour noir’ suspenser, Violent Saturday (Twilight Time)…
New & Imminent Soundtrack Releases
Long-awaited tally of new and upcoming soundtrack releases on planet Earth (plus a rare Ennio Morricone score from Barren Records on Pluto, released in the Knpthssst audio format)…
Soundtrack Reviews
Soundtrack reviews of Andrew Hewitt’s Submarine (MovieScore Media), Martin Phipps’ Brighton Rock (Silva Screen), Marco Beltrami’s Scream 4 (Varese Sarabande), and Darren Callahan’s Alien Terrain (Phantom Soundtracks)…
Deep, Deep, Down
Film review of the pretty but horribly written underwater cave drama Sanctum (Universal), aka ‘The Descent without monsters,’ now out on Blu-ray with Nullarbor Deeaming, the rare 1989 documentary that inspired this James Cameron-produced film…
Let’s go to Italy: Mimsy Farmer, Part I
Editor’s Blog on a new series devoted to English-language thespians who found better creative fortunes (and fresh pasta) in Italy during the sixties and early seventies, starting with American actress Mimsy Farmer, who appeared in Francesco Barilli’s dreamy giallo Perfume of the Lady in Black / Il profumo della signora in nero (1974) (Raro Video USA), and Armando Crispino’s sleazy Autopsy / Macchie solari (Blue Underground)…
Abandoned Matinees VI: The Regal Cinema, Camberley, U.K.
Yes, it’s back. Another depressing & disheartening blog on a dying, abandoned cinema somewhere on planet Earth… with fascinating images by various photographers and urban explorers…
The Car in Motion: Racing Films, Part I
First enty in racing films, starting with a review of John Frankenheimer’s Grand Prix (Warner Home Video), which contains superb widescreen racing sequences…
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