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Soundtrack Reviews
This one’s a quickie, as I’m finishing up on several themed blogs & reviews for this week. Just uploaded are reviews of Jason Graves’ score for the video game Dead Space 2 [M] (released by E.A.R.S.), Andrew Hewitt’s Cuckoo [M] (MovieScore Media), and Alan Ari Lazar’s music for Gangster’s Paradise: Jerusalema [M] (Lakeshore Records). The […]
Gangsters: Part I
The first in a series, beginning with reviews of the first two films in TCM’s Greatest Gangster Films set – Little Caesar and Smart Money (Warner Home Video) – and the South African crime drama Gangster’s Paradise: Jerusalema (Anchor Bay)…
Soundtrack News & Reviews
Composer Mark Isham launches his new label with The Mechanic, and reviews of 3 new La-La Land releases: Dominic Frontiere’s The Rat Patrol, John Debney’s The Young Riders, and James Horner’s Jade…
The Sights & Sounds of Driving Angry
Review of Drive Angry (2011) plus an interview with the film’s composer, Michael Wandmacher …
The Unstoppable Tony Scott
Reviews of Tony Scott’s Unstoppable (Fox) and The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (Columbia / TriStar)…
Handling the Truth
Review of Warner Home Video’s superb Blu-ray edition of All the President’s Men, one of the finest docu-dramas on politics…
Francis Lai & Claude Lelouch I: A Man & a Woman
Reviews of Silva Screen’s new Francis Lai: The Essential Collection, plus Lai’s original A Man and a Woman album, in addition to a review of the film that began the Lai-Lelouch collaboration (via Warner Home Video), and its conceptually intriguing sequel, A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later (now out via Warner Archives)…
New & Imminent Soundtrack Releases
Long tally of new and imminent soundtrack releases coming your way, including a new line of DVDs from Twilight Time (Screen Archives Entertainment) featuring previously unreleased films on DVD with isolated scores / film music goodies…
Rituals returns! and other cult DVD news
Yes, Lawrence Dane’s Rituals is back on the release slate, as are fellow Cancon classics The Last Chase and Julie Darling, plus new stuff from Shout! Factory…
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