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More 3D Comin’ at Ya!
3D news briefs on Star Wars (oh. George), Canadian hockey in 3D, and sightings & stock of ColorCode 3D glasses at Canada Post…
Is DVD the next Dodo?
Editorial blather on the commercial viability of DVD, now that Netflix has entered the Canadian market with its streaming service, and the DVD rental market is withering…
Nunsploitation, Part I: Borowczyk + Suzuki
DVD reviews of Cult Epics’ 2-disc set, The Nunsploitation Convent, featuring Walerian Borowczyk’s Behind Convent Walls / Intérieur d’un couvent / Interno di un convento (1978), and Norifumi Suzuki’s outrageous anti-Catholic assault School of the Holy Beast / Seijû gakuen (1974)…
Is She Amused?
Editor’s Blog on CBC’s airing of Queen Elizabeth in 3D, a doc being repeated this weekend…
VOWLS scores Mizoguchi
Brandon Hocura discusses composing an original score for Kenji Mizoguchi’s The Water Magician / Taki no shiraito (1933), which he performed with his group VOWLS at the Shinsedai Cinema Festival…
Jackie Burroughs, 71
Editorial on the passing of acress Jackie Burroughs (Road to Avonlea, A Winter Tan, The Grey Fox)…
New & Imminent Soundtrack Releases
Latest tally of new and imminent soundtrack releases in and around planet Earth…
Sci-Fi ’56: The Year of Style, Substance, and Silliness
Reviews of Warner Home Video’s new Forbidden Planet Blu-ray, as well as the label’s sci-fi diptych, Satellite in the Sky and World Without End…
Library Music, Part 4
In Part 4 of our series on stock music libraries, I’ve reviewed the films Teenagers from Outer Space (1959) and The Incredible Petrified World (1957) – both scored with music from the Capitol Hi-Q library – and CDs of stock & original music used by George Romero in Dawn of the Dead (1978)…
The Bell Lightbox is Illuminated
Editor’s Blog (well, sort of) on the opening of the new Bell Lightbox, and some of the film music content that’ll be a part of the upcoming Essential Cinema series Sept. 23rd…
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