Return to: Home / Blu-ray, DVD, Film Reviews / E . Film: Very Good/ DVD Transfer: Very Good / DVD Extras: Very Good Label/Studio: Warner Home Video / Catalogue: 30000-29755 / Region: 1 (NTSC) / Released: August 3, 2010 Synopsis: A Norwegian town decides to fight back against its vile Nazi occupiers. Special Features: Warner Night at […]
Return to: Home / Exclusive Interviews & Profiles / Composers . Even if you’ve only seen the Heroes pilot, it would be hard not to be moved by the refreshing scoring approach by series composers Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman. Their music is sometimes ethereal, with light touches of exotic sounds from an eclectic collection of ethnic instruments, or […]
Return to: Home / Exclusive Interviews & Profiles / Composers . Composer Elia Cmiral talks about his latest horror score, Pulse, which fuses electronic and modern orchestral writing. Though best-known for his popular scores for Apartment Zero and Ronin, Cmiral’s horror and suspense work includes Bones, Stigmata, They, and Wrong Turn. . . Mark R. Hasan : Pulse is a remake of the Japanese film Kairo/Pulse (2001). […]
Return to: Home / Blu-ray, DVD, Film Reviews / T to U . Film: Excellent/ DVD Transfer: Very Good/ DVD Extras: Very Good Label/Studio: Warner Home Video / Catalogue: 30000-29755 / Region: 1 (NTSC) / Released: August 3, 2010 Synopsis: After being caught again by his old nemesis, a crimminal must decide whether it’s more noble to die […]
Return to: Home / Blu-ray, DVD, Film Reviews / D . Film: Very Good/ DVD Transfer: Very Good/ DVD Extras: Very Good Label/Studio: Warner Home Video / Catalogue: 30000-29755 / Region: 1 (NTSC) / Released: August 3, 2010 Synopsis: After their bomber’s crash landing, a troupe of allied soldiers trek through Germany to blow up their missed target. […]
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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