Tag: Rod McKuen

Soundtrack Reviews

Soundtrack Reviews

August 19, 2015 | By

Soundtrack reviews of Trevor Rabin & Paul Linford’s 12 Monkeys and Rob McKuen’s A Boy Named Charlie Brown from Varese Sarabande, and Ryan Amon’s Bloodborne from Sumthing Else / Sony.

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CD: Boy Named Charlie Brown, A (1969)

CD: Boy Named Charlie Brown, A (1969)

August 19, 2015 | By

After seven TV specials, it seemed inevitable that Charles Schulz’s Peanuts characters would make the leap to the big screen, and their theatrical debut came with Vince Guaraldi’s jazz themes plus new songs performed and co-written by Rod McKuen, an occasional film composer, songwriter, poet, and author…

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BR: Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The (1969)

BR: Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The (1969)

March 7, 2015 | By

Bucking the clichés of the ‘benevolent teacher’ classics like Goodbye Mr. Chips (1939) and The Browning Version (1994), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is the flip-side in which vanity, selfishness, and delusion rule. Jay Presson Allen’s 1968 play and subsequent film adaptation (both derived from Murial Spark’s 1961 novel) is no less provocative nor raw than when originally released in 1969…

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