
Susan Lacy’s Spielberg (2017)
Review of Spielberg (2017), Susan Lacy’s engaging doc on the iconoclastic filmmaker from HBO.
Review of Spielberg (2017), Susan Lacy’s engaging doc on the iconoclastic filmmaker from HBO.
Distilling the career, the creative and industry accomplishments of Steven Spielberg into even a 147 mins. doc is quite a chore, but like her subsequent portrait…
Return to: Home / Soundtrack Reviews / A . Rating: Very Good Label: Sony Classical/ Released: December 13, 2011 Tracks & Album Length: 18 tracks / (65:39) . Special Notes: 8-page colour booklet with liner notes by director Steven Spielberg. . Composer: John Williams . . Review: John Williams’ second 2011 score for Steven Spielberg, after the […]
Return to: Home / Soundtrack Reviews / V to Z . Rating: Excellent Label: Sony Classical/ Released: November 21, 2011 Tracks & Album Length: 16 tracks / (67:28) . Special Notes: 8-page foldout colour booklet with notes by director Steven Spielberg. . Composer: John Williams . . Review: Steven Spielberg tends to bring out the inner-schmaltz in […]
Blu-ray reviews of three takes on suburban paranoia: Joe Cornish’s Attack the Block (Sony), Tom Holland’s Fright Night (Twilight Time), and J.J. Abrams’ Super 8 (Paramount), plus some Editorius Blathorious regarding review updates + upcoming film projects (mine, not yours).
Film: Very Good/ DVD Transfer: Excellent/ DVD Extras: Excellent Label: Paramount/ Region: A / Released: November 22, 2011 Genre: Science-Fiction / Horror Synopsis: In 1979, a group of kids in a small town discover a recent train derailment unleased a potentially malevolent alien. Special Features: Audio commentary by writer / director J.J. Abrams + Filmmakers’ Commentary […]
Return to: Home / Blu-ray, DVD, Film Reviews / S . Film: Good / DVD Transfer: n/a/ DVD Extras: n/a Label: n/a/ Region: n/a / Released: n/a Genre: TV movie / Supernatural Horror Synopsis: A family moves to a country farm and slowly realize their home and maybe a family member might be possessed by a demonic […]
Return to: Home / Blu-ray, DVD, Film Reviews / C . Film: Excellent / DVD Transfer: Excellent / DVD Extras: Excellent Label: Warner Home Video / Region: All / Released: January 25, 2011 Genre: Drama Synopsis: An African American woman struggles to maintain her dignity after being handed off to a brutal farmer in turn-of-the-century America. Special Features: 4 […]
Review- no, more like an essay on Warner Home Video’s new Blu-ray of Poltergeist (1982), plus an anecdotal Editor’s Blog on the film’s impact, and that beloved Sony Trinitron, often dubbed ‘the Poltergeist TV’…
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