Reviews of two Tinto Brass films recently released to disc: Private (Cult Epics), looking & sounding quite nice on Blu-ray, and Snack Bar Budapest (Mya Communications), a marginalized hybrid of erotica and gangster film homage shot with a look reminiscent of Blade Runner.
Just uploaded is a review of Twilight Time’s new Blu-ray edition of Drums Along the Mohawk (1939), which includes Nick Redman’s info-packed documentary Becoming John Ford (2007).
Some quick soundtrack news + a quartet of TV soundtrack reviews, all 2-disc sets from La-La Land Records: Bear McCreary’s music from the TV series Caprica, J. Peter Robinson’s Charmed, Mark Snow & Louis Febre’s Smallville, and Brian Tyler’s Terra Nova.
Still not on DVD in Region 1 land, but Hammer’s last fling with original TV production – 1984’s Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense / aka Fox Mystery Theater – is worth a peek, so I enjoyed the few gems, grumbled through the bores, and suffered through the ineptly conceived feature-length episodes featuring several of Britain’s top directors. Also noted: a head’s up on the soon-to-be-released teaser trailer for my video store documentary BSV 1172.
Review of Corruption (1968), a naughty gory shocker starring Peter Cushing that’s been off the radar until Grindhouse Releasing assembled a superb Blu-ray special edition – one of the best classic film releases of the year.
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