Reviews of two powerful films on rape: the saga of Phoolan Devi in Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen (1995) on Blu from Twilight Time + Leslee Udwin’s India’s Daughter (2014), produced by the BBC and currently banned in India.
Review of a rare western starring Elvis Presley and directed by Don Siegel: Flaming Star (1960), new on Blu from Twilight Time + some Editorial Blather on home video.
Podcast Interview with film composer Craig Safan + reviews of newly remasterd / expanded releases of The Last Starfighter (1984) from Intrada Records and Warning Sign (1985) from Invada Records.
Are there 2.26 billion videotapes residing in households like toxic matter in Ontario? Should all VHS be recycled and eradicated like noxious goo? Or should a business plan to help the environment and a local community be modified? Read the Editor’s Blog on Project Get Reel.
The early years of Norway’s North Sea oil boom are (kind of) dramatized in the suspenser Pioneer / Pioner (2013) from Magnolia + some related underwater danger in The Dive / Dykket (1989).
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