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Dog Tales II: Lassie Goes to War!
The second installment of pooch tales focuses again on Lassie in wartime America, and includes a review of Courage of Lassie (Warner Home Video) and a related period propaganda film, War Dogs (Internet Archive)…
Hot & Bothered: The Chase, by Arthur Penn and Sam Spiegel
Editor’s Blog on the recent screening of producer Sam Spiegel’s The Chase (1966), as part of their retrospective on director Arthur Penn, plus a review of the film and John Barry’s score…
The Corman Touch
Reviews of Roger Corman’s Sharktopus (Anchor Bay), and Philippe Robert’s surprisingly fun no-budget shocker Resonnances (Synapse Films)…
The Curious Case of Veit Harlan
The specter of writer / director Veit Harlan’s anti-Semitic film Jud Suss (1940) still lingers over the Harlan family, and I’ve uploaded a review the infamous film (still banned in Germany and parts of Europe) and Felix Moeller’s superb documentary from 2008, Harlan: In the Shadow of Jud Suss (Zeitgeist Films)…
Doing it right: Gerhardt, Korngold, and RCA
First reviews of the newly remastered CDs of the classic RCA released, Charles Gerhardt conducted, George Korngold produced Classic Film Music series from the seventies, plus an appreciation of this enduring string of audiophile albums…
Dog Tales I: Lassie (1943-1945)
Editorial blather + links to reviews in a new pooches-on-film series, starting with the first two entries in MGM’s Lassie series – Lassie Come Home and Son of Lassie – newly wrapped up in a 2-disc set from Warner Home Video…
Soundtrack News & Other Tidbits
Latest lengthy tall of new and upcoming soundtrack releases, and other filmic news tidbits…
Soundtrack Reviews
Just uploaded: soundtrack reviews of Dan Marocco’s Brotherhood (Lakeshore Records) and Nuno Malo’s Amalia (MovieScore Media)…
Gangsters: Part II
In the second part of this series, I’ve reviewed another great trio of gangster flicks: The Public Enemy and The Roaring Twenties (Warner Home Video), and the South African ‘grindhouse classic’ Death of a Snowman (Synapse Films)…
TV Noir (sort of): Part I
The first part of TV Noir begins with a review of Too Good to be True, a 1988 TV movie remake of Leave Her to Heaven, but before you read the review, do read my editorial blather on the TBL’s recent 35mm print screening of the original Technicolor film…
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