Return to: Home / Exclusive Interviews & Profiles / Composers . In 1991, celebrated jazz pianist and composer Oscar Peterson became Chancellor of York University – another honor bestowed upon the award-winning artist – and in 1992 he was profiled in a well-received NFB documentary, In the Key of Oscar. In the intervening years, Peterson continued to tour […]
Return to: Home / Exclusive Interviews & Profiles / Composers . Known in North America as Huge Moves, Impossible Moves, and Mega Moves, Monster Moves (the original title of the Windfall Films series) is a British-U.S. coproduction above moving Big Things, and perhaps the folly of man in wanting to do the impossible, and figuring out a way […]
Return to: Home / Exclusive Interviews & Profiles / Composers. . Urban Legends: Final Cut marks the feature directorial debut of editor/composer John Ottman, the British Academy Award (BAFTA) winning editor, and accomplished composer of The Usual Suspects (1997). A graduate of the USC film school program, Ottman has spent the last few years building up a substantial resume […]
Return to: Home / Exclusive Interviews & Profiles / Composers . On the one hand, it shouldn’t be surprising to hear John Ottman praise the films of the seventies, because for several composers – John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, Michael Small, and David Shire, to name a few – that decade not only gave them opportunities to write some […]
Return to: Home / Exclusive Interviews & Profiles / Composers . Since 1965, NBC has been broadcasting episodes of Days of Our Lives [DOOL], one of the longest-running daytime soap operas in TV history. The show’s large cast of characters – many who’ve been active since the seventies and eighties – has given the show’s composing team of […]
Tales of Giant Bugs on VHS, a Podcast Interview, and Tape Swapping
In addition to a review of the 3D short film ROACH (2022) on VHS, I’ve an interview with its maker, SCHNUDLBUG, and links to an essay I wrote for the latest issue of BRANDON LIM’s zine, FILM FVCKERS, titled “THE GREAT TAPE SWAP”
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
Tales of Giant Bugs on VHS, a Podcast Interview, and Tape Swapping
In addition to a review of the 3D short film ROACH (2022) on VHS, I’ve an interview with its maker, SCHNUDLBUG, and links to an essay I wrote for the latest issue of BRANDON LIM’s zine, FILM FVCKERS, titled “THE GREAT TAPE SWAP”
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.
The core story involves a pilot who runs into an available, functional spacecraft, and boots up into the planet’s now-toxic atmosphere, relying on the craft’s occasionally bristling AI navigation system to find a strata safe from dense clouds, and a roving giant bug determined to make a meal of the tiny craft and its pilot.
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…
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