Return to: Home / Soundtrack Reviews / D . Rating: Excellent Label: Warner/Sunset/ Released: July 15, 2008 Tracks & Album Length: 14 tracks / (73:35) . Special Notes: Available as a standard CD, Limited Edition CD (same music contents + different artwork, 3 two-sided trading cards), and vinyl LP. . Composer: Hans Zimmer, James Newton Howard . […]
Return to: Home / Blu-ray, DVD, Film Reviews / I . Film: Excellent / DVD Transfer: Excellent / DVD Extras: Excellent Label: Warner Home Video / Region: All / Released: December 7, 2010 Genre: Science-Fiction / Fantasy / Caper Synopsis: A thief and his troupe use dream states to implant suggestions and affect a target’s mental state for corporate clients. Special Features: […]
Return to: Home / Soundtrack Reviews / I . Rating: Excellent Label: Water Tower Music, Reprise / Released: July 13, 2010 Tracks & Album Length: 12 tracks / (49:20) . Special Notes: n/a . Composer: Hans Zimmer . . Review: One of the toughest biases to break for critics is the old Hans Zimmer, the composer of bombastic action scores with […]
Return to: Home / Blu-ray, DVD, Film Reviews / I . Film: Excellent / DVD Transfer: Excellent / DVD Extras: Excellent Label: Warner Home Video / Region: All / Released: July 13, 2010 Genre: Suspense Synopsis: Severe lack of sleep begins to affect a detective’s ability to solve a case during Alaska’s 24 hour daylight. Special Features: Additional Scenes with optional commentary by […]
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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