Reflections on Video Store Day V
Editor’s Blog featuring reflections on this past weekend’s Video Store Day, recent media coverage, and what may lie ahead if the concept doesn’t grow.
Editor’s Blog featuring reflections on this past weekend’s Video Store Day, recent media coverage, and what may lie ahead if the concept doesn’t grow.
The history of the 1980s most preeminent B-movie studio is chronicled in Mark Hartley’s Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (Warner Home Video) and in Twilight Time’s swell Blu-ray edition of 10 to Midnight.
Soundtrack reviews of Marcelo Zarvos & Paul Hartnoll’s American Ultra + Dario Marianelli’s Everest (both from Varese Sarabande), and Theodore Shapiro’s Trumbo (Lakeshore Records).
Recap of Frizzi 2 Fulci, Fabio Frizzi’s tribute concert to director Lucio Fulci which occurred at Toronto’s The Opera House Oct. 8, 2015.
Editor’s Blog on Video Store Day V, coming this weekend. In this nostalgia piece, I look at the personal impact of getting cable TV in 1972, and Pay TV around 1986. Included: links to scans of vintage brochures.
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