Reflections on Video Store Day V
Editor’s Blog featuring reflections on this past weekend’s Video Store Day, recent media coverage, and what may lie ahead if the concept doesn’t grow.
Author Archive: Mark R. Hasan
Boogaloo-ing to the Cannon Groove: Electric Boogaloo (2014) + 10 to Midnight (1983)
The history of the 1980s most preeminent B-movie studio is chronicled in Mark Hartley’s Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (Warner Home Video) and in Twilight Time’s swell Blu-ray edition of 10 to Midnight.
DVD: Electric Boogaloo – The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014)
Mark Hartley, director of the lively and critically lauded film genre documentaries Machete Maidens Unleashed! (2010) and Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Tale of Ozploitation! (2008) returns with a zippy examination of The Cannon Film Group, the company founded and managed by director Menachem Golan and producer Yoram Globus…
BR: 10 to Midnight (1983)
Critically derided (but with affection) as the silver screen’s most ‘stone-faced’ actor, Bronson had just complete Death Wish II (1982) for Cannon, the exploitation studio that would prove to be his chief employer for many of his subsequent feature films, as well as veteran director J. Lee Thompson…
Soundtrack Reviews
Soundtrack reviews of Marcelo Zarvos & Paul Hartnoll’s American Ultra + Dario Marianelli’s Everest (both from Varese Sarabande), and Theodore Shapiro’s Trumbo (Lakeshore Records).
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