Mini Moguls + Tangerine Dream’s Legend
Editor’s Blog, plus reviews of Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel and The Aggression Scale (Anchor Bay) & Lockout (Alliance / Sony) + CD review of BSX’s new Legend CD.
Category: FILM MUSIC
‘Watch it Without Glasses!’
Editor’s Blog on CinemaScope and reviews of The Robe (Fox) and Demetrius and the Gladiators (Twilight Time), plus Bella Darvi in Hell and High Water (Fox), and soundtrack reviews of Alfred Newman’s The Robe (La-La Land) and Franz Waxman’s Demetrius and the Gladiators (FSM).
Crime, Triple-Time! + Quick News Cuts
Blade is a 1973 detective thriller / serial killer thriller that may be the worst shot film of the seventies, whereas ring of Death / Un detective (1969) is a forgotten, seriously underrated gem that’s the best thing in Code Red’s double-feature DVD. Also added to the review mix is a review of Fred Bongusto’s Un detective soundtrack, which frankly grooves, plus news bits including vintage 3D coming to Blu-ray, and Clive Barker’s Nightbreed: The Cabal Cut comes to Rue Morgue’s Cinemacabre this month at the TIFF Bell Lightbox!
Soundtrack Reviews: an Italian Octet
Soundtrack reviews of 8 Italian releases, including albums by IMARC 5, Nuova Consonanza with Ennio Morricone, Piero Umiliani, Giorgio Gaslini, Peppino De Luca, and Carlo Pes.
Soundtrack Tally + Misc. News Bits
Film critic Andrew Sarris passes away at 83, The Exorcist comes to the stage. an AMC scale-back?, World’s Biggest Bookstore to close, and yes, this month’s Score Tally of new and upcoming soundtrack releases.
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