Return to: Home / Exclusive Interviews & Profiles / Composers . The 2009 release of Trick ‘R Treat (2008) is notable because it finally allows horror fans to see and hear the film and music of writer/director Michael Dougherty, and composer Douglas Pipes. To film music fans, Pipes is best-known for Monster House (2006), a witty and lyrical […]
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 […]
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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