Return to: Home / Soundtrack Reviews / B . Rating: Excellent Label: La-La Land Records/ Released: July 21, 2010 Tracks & Album Length: CD 1: 30 tracks / (75:40) + CD 2: 29 tracks / (70:27) . Special Notes: 2-CD set / 20-page colour booklet with liner notes by Jeff Bond / Limited to 5000 copies . […]
In tandem with the release of Danny Elfman’s score to Hitchcock (Sony Classical) I’ve uploaded a release of a rarely seen Alfred Hitchcock film – Waltzes from Vienna (1934) – his only, er, musical. Also added: minor Editor’s Blog on best-of lists, and the need to acknowledge Dumb Moves and Missed Opportunities by labels large & small.
Return to: Home / Soundtrack Reviews / H . Rating: Very Good Label: Sony Classical/ Released: November 27, 2012 Tracks & Album Length: 27 tracks / (38:38) . Special Notes: 12-page colour booklet. . Composer: Danny Elfman .Review: HBO’s 2012 teleplay chronicled a more fanciful, if not dramatically divergent making of Psycho (1960) and received mixed critical […]
Blu-ray review of Wrath of the Titans (Warner Home Video), soundtrack reviews of Henry Jackman’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and Danny Elfman’s Men in Black 3 (Sony Classical) and odd bits of info.
Return to: Home / Soundtrack Reviews / M . Rating: Very Good Label: Sony Classical/ Released: May 29, 2012 Tracks & Album Length: 22 tracks / (53:44) . Special Notes: 12-page colour booklet.. . Composer: Danny Elfman . . Review: When a composer returns to a franchise and is supposed to write a score that’s fresh yet […]
Now Where Were We? Right. Let’s go back to LAST NIGHT (1998)
Don McKellar’s LAST NIGHT (1998) is the first review after a long pause in activities at KQEK.com
Gothic Steele: An Angel for Satan (1966)
Review of AN ANGEL FOR SATAN / UN ANGELO PER SATANA (1966), Barbara Steele’s last Italian Gothic, on Blu-ray from Severin Films
Spanish Giallo I: When a Cannibal is not a Cannibal, but When a Scream is Indeed a Scream
Severin Films showcases the work of Eloy de la Iglesia via two fine Spanish gialli entries: NO ONE HEARD THE SCREAM (1973) + CANNIBAL MAN (1972)
ArtScopeTO 10: Interview with Abstract Painter Donna Wise
For my occasional podcast series ArtScope TO, Abstract Painter Donna Wise discusses her unique techniques, and working during the 2020-2021 pandemic.
Podcast: Jason Pichonsky on Restoring Julian Roffman’s THE BLOODY BROOD (1959) + PHOBIA (1980)
Alongside a podcast with CanCon film historian Jason Pichonsky are revised reviews of Julian Roffman’s THE BLOODY BROOD (1959) + John Huston’s PHOBIA (1980), both from KINO Lorber / Unobstructed View.
Podcast: ANNE WITH AN E composers Amin Bhatia & Ari Posner
Podcast interview with ANNE WITH AN E’s composing team Amin Bhatia and Ari Posner.
Assorted characters collide and interact in the lead-up to Earth’s demise at precisely midnight.
BR: Angel for Satan, An / Un angelo per Satana (1966)
Had Barbara Steele remained in Europe – especially Italy – during the early 1970s, she may well have appeared in giallo thrillers…
BR: Cannibal Man / La semana del asesino / Apartment on the 13th Floor, The (1972)
Cannibal Man has a palpable crime-drama feel – the events unfold after daily title cards – and one can sense Hitchcockian sensibilities…
BR: No One Heard the Scream / Nadie oyó gritar (1973)
After the grisly thriller Cannibal Man (1972), Spanish auteur Eloy de la Iglesia opted for a far less graphic thriller which is part giallo…
DVD: Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story of Cannon Films, The (2014)
Produced and released around the same time as Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014), the approach by director Hilla Medalia is a more authorized chronicle…
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