Category: EDITOR’S BLOG
Abandoned Matinees
Editor’s Blog on lost, forgotten, and abandoned movie theatres, as documented through online photographers…
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…
No souvlaki for you, laughing boy!
Editorial blather on being under the weather’ during a happy sunny July in T.O…
2010 Prime Time Emmy Award Nominees on Home Video
2010 Prime Time Emmy Award Nominations, with handy links for titles available on DVD, Blu-ray, and CD…
G20 T.O. Reflections
Reflections on the debacle that was the G20 Toronto Summit on our national day of good vibes, Canada Day…
More OOP Criterions Announced
Yes, here comes another wave of soon-to-be-deleted Criterion editions…
A Mid-Week Pause in T.O.
Editor’s Blog on the weird n’ wacky things happening this week: Earthquakes, fences, “Ontairo,” and “kaka”…
The Return of Charlie Chan on DVD
Reviews of the new TCM-Warner Home Video set featuring four previously unavailable Charlie Chan films – Dark Alibi (1946), Dangerous Money (1946), The Trap (1946), and The Chinese Ring (1947). – plus lengthy editorial blather on ethnic characters portrayed by white folks…
Nature Rules
Editor’s Blog on classic nature shows, and a review of the new Life Blu-ray (BBC Warner), comparing the differences between the Oprah Winfrey and David Attenbourough versions…
Shirley Walker's Flashes of Brilliance
CD review of La-La Land’s 2-CD set of Shirley Walker’s music from The Flash series (1990-1991) in bouncy-bouncy stereo…
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