Tally & heads up of local film festivals & screenings, advance Hot Docs and Bloor Cinema passes now available for purchase, Bill ‘Deliverance’ McKinney dies at 80 without a squeal, Chinatown & Adam Nayman at the TBL, hockey films, and Nino Rota turns 100!
Just uploaded: 3 videogame soundtrack reviews: Greg Edmonson’s Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception (La-La Land), Steve Jablonsky’s Gears of War 3 and Cris Velasco & Sascha Dikiciyan ‘s Warhammer 40,000: Spacemarine (both from Sumthng Else), but there’s also additonal editorial blather on Twilight Time’s Mysterious Island Blu-ray, upcoming TT and La-La Land releases, and the late, naughty, Ken Russell dies at 84.
Editor’s Blog on Alliance’s “Complete Collection,” a new 6-disc set which supposedly features all the episodes from The Hitchhiker, the classic Canadian anthology series from the 1980s. I’ve done a breakdown of what’s so incomplete with this repackage of the American HBO set. Harumph…
Tally & heads up of local film festivals & screenings, Doc Soup returns to the Bloor Dec. 7, Rue Morgue’s Cinemacabre, and where you can still get pretty Guillermo del Toro “Fright Night” posters.
Editorial blather and film review of Samuel Bronston’s epic production of 55 Days at Peking (1963), recently screened at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, plus a review of La-La Land’s new 2-CD soundtrack album featuring Dimitri Tiomkin’s complete Boom-De-Boom score.
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