Return to: Home / Blu-ray, DVD, Film Reviews / J to L . Film: Very Good / DVD Transfer: Excellent / DVD Extras: Very Good Label: New Line Home Video / Alliance-Atlantis / Region: 1 (NTSC) / Released: October 28, 2008 Genre: Fantasy / Sci-Fi / 3-D Synopsis: A geology professor, his nephew, and a spunky Icelandic blonde […]
Return to: Home / Soundtrack Reviews / J to L . Rating: Excellent Label: New Line Records/ Released: July 8, 2008 Tracks & Album Length: 24 tracks / (67:19) . Special Notes: Available as an MP3 album from New Line Records (North America), and as a CD and MP3 album from Silva Screen (Europe). . Composer: Andrew […]
Just uploaded, an interview with Journey 2: The Mysterious Island composer Andrew Lockington, plus reviews of Journey 2 (Water Tower), John Williams’ Adventures of Tintin (Sony Classical), Alberto Iglesias’ Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Silva Screen), and Jerry Goldsmith’s Tora! Tora! Tora! and Shirley Walker’s Space: Above and Beyond (both from La-La Land) plus Soundtrack Release news!
Return to: Home / Soundtrack Reviews / J to L . Rating: Excellent Label: Water Tower/ Released: February 7, 2012 Tracks & Album Length: 20 tracks / (65:45) . Special Notes: Downloadable album from Amazon.com. . Composer: Andrew Lockington . . Review: For the sequel to Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D (2008), it seemed […]
Return to: Home / Exclusive Interviews & Profiles / Composers . Having scored the 3D version of Jules Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth in 2008, Andrew Lockington returned for the sequel, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, but the project turned out to be much more than writing another dynamic orchestral score. This time there was […]
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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