New podcast featuring thoughts on the World Premiere at SDUFF of my experimental doc BSV 1172 + Part One of a conversation with I Lost It at the Video Store author Tom Roston & NOW magazine’s Norman Wilner, who discussed video store culture in-store at Bay Street Video back in May.
Reviews of two underrated WWII dramas, Sean Ellis’ docu-drama Anthropoid (2016) from Universal + Richard Marquand’s vivid film version of Ken Follett’s Eye of the Needle (1981) from Twilight Time, and from the archives, Ellis’ Cashback (2006) + The Broken (2008)
Review of Greg Palast’s cautionary / agit-doc The Best Democracy Money Can Buy (2016), currently ending its run at the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema.
Review of Anthony Mann’s Cold War drama Strategic Air Command (1955), newly released on DVD & Blu by Olive + Howard Hughes’ nutty Jet Pilot (1957) from the KQEK.com archives.
Review of Sidney Pollack’s ‘European’ drama Bobby Deerfield (1977), new on Blu from Twilight Time.
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