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The Hearn Modern?
Editor’s Blog on the abandoned Hearn Generation Station, and links to striking photo-essays…
Comin’ at Ya: Orphan 3D Films, Part I
In the first of our Orphaned 3D Films series, I review two forgotten classics: Roy Ward Bakers’ superb Inferno (1953), and Irwin Allen’s production of Dangerous Mission (1954)…
Action, Baby!
Reviews of Christopher Nolan’s Inception on Blu-ray (Warner Home Video) and Hans Zimmer score (Water Tower Music), plus action-related soundtracks: Clint Mansell’s Faster and John Powell’s Fair Game (both from Lakeshore), Guy Michelmore’s Jackboots on Whitehall (MovieScore Media), and Harry Gregson-Williams’ Unstoppable (La-La Land Records)…
Dizzying Post-Boxing Day Blather
Part of the holidays includes food, drink, some quiet time, annoying time with crowds, and, er, getting sick now and then, so it’s perhaps expected that whatever knocked me down last Wednesday came back this holiday weekend. Instead of delicious chocolates and cake, it’s been Advil and lying horizontal to quell headaches & dizziness…
Christmas Jeers
Editor’s Blog on the plight of Jafar Panahi, and a DVD review of the 2009 documentary Kimjongilia (Mongrel / Lorber) of life under a big fist…
Merian C. Cooper: Big Monkeys 2 & 3
Editor’s Blog and DVD reviews of The Son of Kong and Mighty Joe Young from Warner Home Video…
Targeting the 80s Action Genre
The late, great Michael Kamen scored two iconic action films of the eighties – Lethal Weapon (1987), and Die Hard (1988) – and they were the genre’s definitive films, in fact, because they provided the template for filmmakers to imitate and composers to emulate for around a decade. Screenwriters tended to use ‘Die Hard on a plane/train/boat/chuck wagon/wobbly tricycle’ when pitching ideas to agents, and journalists liked to use the same phrases to describe what story, treatment or script the latest overpriced scribe had managed to sell for $1.5, $2.5, and $4.0 million to a sucker studio…
Blake Edwards R.I.P.
Writer / director / producer Blake Edwards passed away December 19 at the age of 88, leaving behind wife Julie Andrews, two children, and an extraordinary body of work…
This is MY Christmas Movie
There are two ways to appraise the act of writing a piece on a film you saw a long, long time ago, one that predates the birth of the average, present day film student: a nostalgia piece, which can delve into cranky-old-fart syndrome; or just elaborating on why a particular movie you saw during its original engagement is still a damn fine film…
Merian C. Cooper I: Big Monkey, No. 1
Review of Warner Home Video’s shiny happy King Kong Blu-ray, and a quick nod to the deceased RKO Roxy Theatre…
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