Return to: Home / Blu-ray, DVD, Film Reviews / S . Film: Excellent/ BR Transfer: Excellent/ BR Extras: Excellent Label: Warner Home Video/ Region: All / Released: June 12, 2012 Genre: Sherlock Holmes / Mystery / Comedy / Action Synopsis: Holmes and Watson must avoid becoming the doomed pawns of Prof. Moriarty’s eeevil plans. That is all. […]
Return to: Home / Blu-ray, DVD, Film Reviews / A . Film: Very Good / BR Transfer: Excellent/ BR Extras: Good Label: Twilight Time/ Region: All / Released: June 12, 2012 Genre: Comedy / Drama Synopsis: An obsessive-compulsive author learns to overcome a bit of his monstrous meanness to romance a tough-talking waitress, and be slightly kind […]
Return to: Home / Soundtrack Reviews / D . Rating: Excellent Label: Warner/Sunset/ Released: July 15, 2008 Tracks & Album Length: 14 tracks / (73:35) . Special Notes: Available as a standard CD, Limited Edition CD (same music contents + different artwork, 3 two-sided trading cards), and vinyl LP. . Composer: Hans Zimmer, James Newton Howard . […]
Just uploaded is a quartet of reviews for ongoing (and likely eternal) franchises: Doctor Who continues to steam through new seasons, and Silva Screen’s latest release features 2+ hours of Murray Gold’s music from Season 6 [M]. Also from Silva is music from Sherlock: Season 1 [M], composed by David Arnold and Michael Price, who […]
Return to: Home / Soundtrack Reviews / S . Rating: Excellent Label: Water Tower Music/ Released: December 13, 2011 Tracks & Album Length: 18 tracks / (57:26) . Special Notes: Enhanced CD includes link to bonus music & video content [U.S. only]. . Composer: Hans Zimmer . . Review: Hans Zimmer & Co. return with a slightly […]
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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