The release of Roy Budd’s long unheard score adds another majestic interpretation of this warped emotional union.
Emphasizing romance with a gorgeous main theme, Budd’s music benefits from a huge orchestra and superb engineering which showcase his gift for melody, but it’s arguably Budd’s knack for keeping an eye on pacing which makes his score…
It may be that Fox had wanted to follow up their popular Flint film series – Our Man Flint (1966) and In Like Flint (1967) – with a scaled down, less costly TV series, but this Vancouver-made pilot ranks as one of the worst CanCon productions around. It’s no surprise any hope of a series were thwarted by this stillborn concoction which showed little imagination or directorial skill…
After the box office success of Blue Hawaii (1961), Elvis Presley starred in this forgotten oddball comedy about homesteaders who claim for themselves a plot of land besides a newly built highway in Florida, and their efforts to maintain their ownership in spite of a pushy state bureaucrat…
The latest collaboration from documentarians Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine (Ballet Russes) is what’s ostensibly a true life (and likely true crime) tale of three sets of eccentric European settlers who carved out their own respective pockets of paradise on the harsh Galapagos island of Floreana during the 1930s, and after enduring jealousies, drought, and internecine levels of contempt, where given a jolt by a series of peculiar disappearances…
Junko Asahina (Horny Working Girl: From 5 to 9, I Love It From Behind!) plays Kei, a former balance beam gymnast who’s somewhat traumatized by her company’s decision to hire her former coach, a cocksure tyrant who ruined her concentration and severed future certificates of merit when he just had to bag his pliable protégé the day before her Big Performance…
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