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Soundtrack Reviews + Major Site Changes
Up are reviews of Silva Screen’s Doctor Who: 50th Anniversary Collection 2-disc set and music from Roger Limb’s Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani, plus an Editor’s Alert regarding a major site overhaul, of which the first changes begin tomorrow.
Soundtrack Reviews
The first quartet of soundtrack reviews this week includes a trio of Borderland 2 add-on games scored by Jesper Kyd, Kevin Riepl and Raison Varner from Sumthing Else; Paul Sawtell and Bert Shefter’s The Last Man on Earth (1964) from Monstrous Movie Music, Nicholas Carras’ She Demon (1958) and Guenther Kauer’s The Astounding She-Monster (1957) from Monstrous Movie Music, and Zucchero’s Snack Bar Budapest (1988) from Polydor.
Double-Trouble from Tinto Brass
Reviews of two Tinto Brass films recently released to disc: Private (Cult Epics), looking & sounding quite nice on Blu-ray, and Snack Bar Budapest (Mya Communications), a marginalized hybrid of erotica and gangster film homage shot with a look reminiscent of Blade Runner.
Drums Along the Mohawk on Blu
Just uploaded is a review of Twilight Time’s new Blu-ray edition of Drums Along the Mohawk (1939), which includes Nick Redman’s info-packed documentary Becoming John Ford (2007).
Soundtrack News + TV Soundtrack Reviews
Some quick soundtrack news + a quartet of TV soundtrack reviews, all 2-disc sets from La-La Land Records: Bear McCreary’s music from the TV series Caprica, J. Peter Robinson’s Charmed, Mark Snow & Louis Febre’s Smallville, and Brian Tyler’s Terra Nova.
Hammer House of Mystery & Suspense!
Still not on DVD in Region 1 land, but Hammer’s last fling with original TV production – 1984’s Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense / aka Fox Mystery Theater – is worth a peek, so I enjoyed the few gems, grumbled through the bores, and suffered through the ineptly conceived feature-length episodes featuring several of Britain’s top directors. Also noted: a head’s up on the soon-to-be-released teaser trailer for my video store documentary BSV 1172.
Grindhouse Releasing’s Delicious Corruption
Review of Corruption (1968), a naughty gory shocker starring Peter Cushing that’s been off the radar until Grindhouse Releasing assembled a superb Blu-ray special edition – one of the best classic film releases of the year.
CanCon 101: Our Man Flint, Lo-Fi style
The latest installment of CanCon 101, a periodic series showcasing Canada’s less-than-illustrious cinema, is Our Man Flint: Dead on Target, a rather inept attempt to transform the eponymous super-spy in Fox’ two Films Our Man Flint (1966) and In Like Flint (1967) into a weekly hero.
Alamo Bay Makes It to Blu-Ray
Review of Twilight Time’s new Blu-ray edition of Louis Malle’s Alamo Bay, starring Amy Madigan, Ed Harris and rampant facial hair, plus a teasing update on my arty-farty video store doc, BSV 1172.
Video Store Day, Post #3
With Video Store Day now done, I’ve written up another related blog about taboo video titles of the era as a preamble to scans from a 1986 issue of Canadian Video Retailer. Also included in the Editor’s Blog are scans of a longer article about ‘knowing your local clientele,’ featuring interviews with managers / owners from three shops in the GTA: the late Video Visa in Thornhill, the late CED rental shop The Video Disc Centre which existed at Toronto’s Union Station, and Mr. Video (which in 1993 morphed into the still-strong Bay Street Video). The entire 31-page issue will be available to read until the end of the month, so check out the blog!
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