Return to: Home / Soundtrack Reviews / B . Rating: Excellent Label: Sony Masterworks/ Released: January 8, 2013 Tracks & Album Length: 19 tracks / (52:00) . Special Notes: Newly expanded 50th Anniversary Edition. . Composer: Charles Strouse (music), Lee Adams (lyrics) . . Review: Sony’s newly expanded CD marks the 50th anniversary of the film version […]
New at the beginning of this annoyingly chilly week – a review of Bye Bye Birdie (1963), George Sidney’s blazing Technicolor film version of the surreal, satirical Broadway musical. Twilight Time’s Blu-ray looks & sounds gorgeous, and Ann-Marget (“Ann-Margrock” to others) leaps from the TV and screams at you in DTS!
Return to: Home / Blu-ray, DVD, Film Reviews / B . Film: Very Good/ BR Transfer: Excellent/ BR Extras: Good Label: Twilight Time/ Region: 1 (NTSC) / Released: August, 2012 Genre: Musical / Comedy/ Satire Synopsis: A teen is hand-picked to give Conrad Birdie his final fan kiss on The Ed Sullivan Show before the famed crooner […]
Review of Twilight Time’s gorgeous Stagecoach (1966) DVD, plus some editorial blather on remakes, and Kritzerland’s new 2-disc Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) CD set, plus multimedia links.
Film: Good/ DVD Transfer: Excellent/ DVD Extras: Good Label: Twilight Time / Region: 0 (NTSC) / Released: October, 2010 Genre: Western Synopsis: 9 people ride a stagecoach through dangerous territory, evading Indians yet falling victim to their own personal struggles. Special Features: Isolated Stereo Music Score / 8-page colour booklet with notes by Film Historian Julie Kirgo […]
Now Where Were We? Right. Let’s go back to LAST NIGHT (1998)
Don McKellar’s LAST NIGHT (1998) is the first review after a long pause in activities at KQEK.com
Gothic Steele: An Angel for Satan (1966)
Review of AN ANGEL FOR SATAN / UN ANGELO PER SATANA (1966), Barbara Steele’s last Italian Gothic, on Blu-ray from Severin Films
Spanish Giallo I: When a Cannibal is not a Cannibal, but When a Scream is Indeed a Scream
Severin Films showcases the work of Eloy de la Iglesia via two fine Spanish gialli entries: NO ONE HEARD THE SCREAM (1973) + CANNIBAL MAN (1972)
ArtScopeTO 10: Interview with Abstract Painter Donna Wise
For my occasional podcast series ArtScope TO, Abstract Painter Donna Wise discusses her unique techniques, and working during the 2020-2021 pandemic.
Podcast: Jason Pichonsky on Restoring Julian Roffman’s THE BLOODY BROOD (1959) + PHOBIA (1980)
Alongside a podcast with CanCon film historian Jason Pichonsky are revised reviews of Julian Roffman’s THE BLOODY BROOD (1959) + John Huston’s PHOBIA (1980), both from KINO Lorber / Unobstructed View.
Podcast: ANNE WITH AN E composers Amin Bhatia & Ari Posner
Podcast interview with ANNE WITH AN E’s composing team Amin Bhatia and Ari Posner.
Assorted characters collide and interact in the lead-up to Earth’s demise at precisely midnight.
BR: Angel for Satan, An / Un angelo per Satana (1966)
Had Barbara Steele remained in Europe – especially Italy – during the early 1970s, she may well have appeared in giallo thrillers…
BR: Cannibal Man / La semana del asesino / Apartment on the 13th Floor, The (1972)
Cannibal Man has a palpable crime-drama feel – the events unfold after daily title cards – and one can sense Hitchcockian sensibilities…
BR: No One Heard the Scream / Nadie oyó gritar (1973)
After the grisly thriller Cannibal Man (1972), Spanish auteur Eloy de la Iglesia opted for a far less graphic thriller which is part giallo…
DVD: Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story of Cannon Films, The (2014)
Produced and released around the same time as Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014), the approach by director Hilla Medalia is a more authorized chronicle…
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