John Guillermin’s awesome WWI flying drama The Blue Max makes it to Blu-ray via Twilight Time, sporting new commentary and music tracks + Jerry Goldsmith’s score is released by La-La Land Records in a 2-CD set.
Film: Excellent Transfer: Excellent/ Extras: Excellent Label: Twilight Time Region: All Released: February 11, 2014 Genre: War / Action / Aviation Synopsis: An arrogant German fighter pilot rises to the top during the waning months of WWI. Special Features: Audio Commentary Track #1: film historian Julie Kirgo and producer Nick Redman / Audio Commentary #2: Isolated […]
Score: Excellent Label: La-La Land Records Released: February 24, 2014 Tracks / Album Length: CD1: 25 tracks / (52:20) + CD2: 28 tracks / (71:23) Special Notes: Colour booklet with liner notes by Jeff Bond / Limited to 2000 copies. Review: Jerry Goldsmith scored The Sand Pebbles, Seconds, Stagecoach, The Trouble with Angels, Our […]
Film: Very Good / BR Transfer: Excellent/ BR Extras: Good Label: Twilight Time / Region: All / Released: October 8, 2013 Genre: Supernatural Horror Synopsis: Strange accidents pepper what should be an otherwise banal summer for a pair of twins in 1935. Special Features: Isolated stereo music track / Theatrical Trailer / 8-page colour booklet with […]
Return to: Home / Soundtrack Reviews / C . Rating: Very Good Label: La-La Land Records/ Released: March, 2013 Tracks & Album Length: 19 tracks / (76:11) . Special Notes: 12-page colour booklet with liner notes by Jeff Bond / Limited to 3000 copies. . Composer: Jerry Goldsmith . . Review: Alongside The Yakuza (1974) and Rising […]
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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