Video Store Day: Slight Preamble to VSD IV
First Post regarding this past weekend’s Video Store Day.
First Post regarding this past weekend’s Video Store Day.
Review of Fritz Lang’s mean yet pulpy & weird WWII thriller Man Hunt (1941), new on Blu from Twilight Time.
Podcast interview with composer Michael Penn regarding his use of the Novachord on Masters of Sex (Showtime) + review of Diana Dilworth’s great doc Mellodrama: The Mellotron Movie (Bazillion Points).
Even for non-fans of musical inventions and outright oddities, Dianna Dilworth’s 80 mins. documentary on the Mellotron and its progenitor, the Chamberlin compels multiple viewings; if not for the sheer fun of watching a panoply of composers and musicians (most from rock) revealing their own fascination for this ‘contraption’…
Latest soundtrack reviews include: Rolfe Kent’s Bad Words (Back Lot Music / Universal), Bear McCreary’s Knights of Badassdom (Sparks & Shadows / La-La Land Records), and Tuomas Kantelinen’s Legend of Hercules (Lionsgate).
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