Return to: Home / Soundtrack Reviews / S . Rating: Excellent Label: Water Tower Music/ Released: January 12, 2010 Tracks & Album Length: 12 tracks / (52:30) . Special Notes: n/a. . Composer: Hans Zimmer . . Review: Hans Zimmer (& Company)’s score for the first Sherlock Holmes film remains the best this far, surpassing Sherlock Holmes: […]
Return to: Home / Soundtrack Reviews / F . Rating: Very Good Label: Silva Screen Records / Released: July 25, 2011 Tracks & Album Length: CD1: 11 tracks / (51:20) + CD2: 12 tracks / (51:01) . Special Notes: 8-page booklet with liner notes by Michael Beek. . Composer: Hans Zimmer . . Review: With more than 20 […]
Reviews of four fun video game soundtracks: Bear McCreary’s SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy SEALs and Hans Zimmer & Company’s Crysis II (both from La-La Land Records), and Inon Zur’s Dragon Age II (Bioware) and Crysis (Sumthing Else), plus news regarding recent Q&As with composer Winifred Phillips (Legend of the Guardians), and Special Features producer Charles de Lauzirikia regarding Universal’s recent Legend (1984) Blu-ray…
Return to: Home / Soundtrack Reviews / B . Rating: Excellent Label: La-La Land Records/ Released: February 15, 2011 Tracks & Album Length: CD 1: 13 tracks / (55:18) — CD 2: 10 tracks / (60:38) . Special Notes: 20-page colour booklet with liner notes by Al Kaplan / Limited to 3000 copies. . Composer: Hans Zimmer . . […]
Return to: Home / Blu-ray, DVD, Film Reviews / I . Film: Excellent / DVD Transfer: Excellent / DVD Extras: Excellent Label: Warner Home Video / Region: All / Released: December 7, 2010 Genre: Science-Fiction / Fantasy / Caper Synopsis: A thief and his troupe use dream states to implant suggestions and affect a target’s mental state for corporate clients. Special Features: […]
Now Where Were We? Right. Let’s go back to LAST NIGHT (1998)
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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
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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)
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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.
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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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