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No Superpowers Whatsoever

August 23, 2010 | By | Add a Comment
No Superpowers Whatsoever

Reviews of two overlooked and marginalized comic book movies – The Losers (Warner Home Video), and Kick-Ass (Canada: Maple, U.S.: Lionsgate)…

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News Trims

August 19, 2010 | By | Add a Comment
News Trims

I Spit on Your Grave (2010) at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival, Yael Hersonski’s A Film Unfinished (2010), and digital scrubbing…

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Abandoned Matinees II

August 16, 2010 | By | Add a Comment
Abandoned Matinees II

The second installment highlights the work of photographer Yves Marchand and Romain Mefre…

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Durham County and Other TV News

August 13, 2010 | By | 1 Comment
Durham County and Other TV News

DVD review of Durham County: Season 2 (Anchor Bay), plus news of some upcoming TV series on DVD…

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Bring On the Virgins

August 12, 2010 | By | Add a Comment
Bring On the Virgins

Reviews of WHV’s Blu-rays of the 1981 and 2010 Clash of the Titans, Paramount’s Dragonslayer DVD, and Alex North’s Dragonslayer score (La-La Land)…

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Abandoned Matinees

August 8, 2010 | By | Add a Comment
Abandoned Matinees

Editor’s Blog on lost, forgotten, and abandoned movie theatres, as documented through online photographers…

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Sanity Slippage

August 5, 2010 | By | Add a Comment
Sanity Slippage

A quartet of films about environments affecting the mental and physical states of poor heroes: the Blu-ray release of Insomnia (Warner Home Video), The Hungry Hills and Iodine (both via Anchor Bay Entertainment Canada), and Ole Bornedal’s Nightwatch / Nattevagten (Anchor Bay)…

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Chloe and Tronno

August 4, 2010 | By | Add a Comment
Chloe and Tronno

Blu-ray review of Atom Egoyan’s Chloe (Sony), plus the new release / whoops-all-sold-out CD of Alan Silvestri’s Predator score (Intrada)…

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Soundtrack Reviews & Upcoming Releases

July 31, 2010 | By | Add a Comment
Soundtrack Reviews & Upcoming Releases

CD reviews of Franco Micalizzi’s Le Amazzoni / Battle of the Amazons (DigitMovies), Angelo Francesco Lavagnino’s score for the 1955 travelogue / documentary Continente Perduto / The Lost Continent (Alhambra), Mark Mancina’s complete Speed 2: Cruise Control (La-La Land), Theodore Shapiro’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid (La-La Land), and La-La Land’s Mike Judge double-billing of John Frizzell’s Office Space, and Shapiro’s Idiocracy, PLUS new soundtrack and isolated score news, and MGM’s fumbling of Escape from New York on Blu-ray…

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Soap Music II

July 25, 2010 | By | Add a Comment
Soap Music II

An interview with Days of Our Lives composer D. Brent Nelson, goosed with unreleased cues from the series, plus a bit of Editorial blather…

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