Body Heat and Near Dark at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, new website to debut Friday, soundtrack news + reviews of two Silva Screen compilations: The Complete Harry Potter Film Music Collection and Music from the Twilight Saga.
Toronto’s Union Station floods because we’re not eating enough hard-boiled eggs; soundtrack news from Intrada, Kritzerland, and La-La Land; Rue Morgue CD reviews; plus CD reviews here of Ernest Gold’s The McCullochs (Monstrous Movie Music) and Pressure Point (Kritzerland), Maurice Jarre’s expanded A Walk in the Clouds (La-La Land), and the new 2-CD edition of Burt Bacharach’s Casino Royale (Quartet Records).
Review of Twilight Time’s new Blu-ray of Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959), the best of the film versions based on Jules Verne’s classic escapist novel.
In the first part of this series, a review of To Whom It May Concern: Ka Shen’s Journey (2010), Brian Jamieson’s newly released documentary on the iconic actress Nancy Kwan, whose career in Hollywood was eroded by Hollywood’s narrow-mindedness, and personal challenges.
Just uploaded are reviews of George Duning’s Bell Book and Candle / 1001 Arabian Nights (FSM), Thomas Newman’s The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (Sony), Terence Blanchard’s Red Tails (Sony), and an expanded release of Mark Mancina’s Speed (La-La Land).
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