Return to: Home / Soundtrack Reviews / T to U . Rating: Excellent Label: Cometa (Italy)/ Released: June 2, 2010 Tracks & Album Length: 18 tracks / (45:24) . Special Notes: 4-page colour booklet with liner notes (in Italian) / Limited to 500 copies. . Composer: Ennio Morricone . . Review: Although the CD’s liner notes are […]
Return to: Home / Soundtrack Reviews /G . Rating: Excellent Label: die Schachtel (Italy) / Released: 2006 Tracks & Album Length: Disc 1: 3 Tracks / (51:22) + Disc 2: 9 Tracks / (61:41) . Special Notes: 72 page B&W booklet with liner notes in English and Italian / foldout-poster / Bonus DVD of Theo Gellehr’s 1967 NDF documentary: […]
Return to: Home / Exclusive Interviews & Profiles / Composers . Since 1989, Cliff Martinez has scored almost 30 feature films, but he’s best known for scoring two of director Steven Soderbergh’s best works: the visceral crime epic Traffic (2000), and the composer’s masterwork, Solaris (2002), which ranks as one of the finest sci-fi scores in the last […]
Return to: Home / Blu-ray, DVD, Film Reviews / A . Film: Good/ DVD Transfer: Good/ DVD Extras: Standard Label: Anchor Bay/ Region: 1 (NTSC) / Released: March 21, 2000 Genre: Giallo / Mystery / Thriller Synopsis: A sudden flurry of suicides and murders possibly influenced by sun spots begin to affect the emotional state of a […]
In Part III, we have Sergio Leone’s arty gangster epic, Once Upon a Time in America, released by Warner Home Video in a gorgeous Blu-ray edition…
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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