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A companion film to the concert / documentary Elvis: That's the Way It Is (1970), Elvis on Tour (1972) feels like a further effort by Elvis and his marketing machine to further prove his relevance to the youth market by reminding film audiences of his...

John Carpenter’s 2-part TV biopic of Elvis Presley finally makes its debut on DVD after a long absence on home video, and time has been a bit a lot kinder to what was a carefully plotted but quick cash-in on he singer’s popularity, two years after his death...

Filmmakers Carney and Cirronella managed to track down a solid 21 participants from Night, and essentially let them reminisce about their experiences as bit players, ghouls, sound recordists, special effects technicians, and associates...

Made before featurettes became de rigueur for cult films on DVD, Thomas Brown’s documentary is admittedly crude and wholly the product of a fan’s adoration for a singular film, but it maintains an oddly refreshing glimpse into the making of one of the most influential...

With the exception of being shot in 3D and reworking the killer piranha into living artifacts from the Pleistocene age which an earthquake freed from a sealed underground lake, there is nothing new in Piranha 3D, and yet Alexnadre Aja’s compact shocker...

Released in the US by Columbia Pictures, Piranha 2: The Spawning was a lower budgeted sequel to the original (and far more fun) Joe Dante directed/John Sayles scripted B-movie classic, which Roger Corman produced in 1978, and later remade for TV in 1995...

The theme of Kick-Ass is a bit hard to discern, but it’s probably something along the lines of being capable of heroism without having any special powers. That’s the position that compels high schooler Dave (Aaron Johnson) to buy a catalogue hero-suit ...

The yearly dose of comic book movies means not every entry will get the attention of audiences, and while The Losers did get an early spring release date, the film didn’t seem to enjoy the love its producers had wanted. Initially developed by Peter...

It’s actually very frustrating when one re-watches a film’s credits, purposely to find the name of the composer responsible for the eerie music, only to find no composer credit whatsoever. Who...

When Roy Budd entered the film scoring world, he’d already been an accomplished jazz musician and composer, and the perfect snapshot of his skill and knack for scoring was Get Carter, Mike Hodges’ nasty...

For the 2000 Sylvester Stallone remake, the producers inevitably had to upgrade the lounge jazz sound of Roy Budd’s original 1971 score with a rock/electronic edge, as well as more...

Some might trace the lack of interest among filmmakers and studios in his mature writing back to 2001: A Space Odyssey, when North’s score was rejected by director Stanley Kubrick in favour of classical...

Heavily influenced by Ennio Morricone’s 1966 Navaho Joe score, Franco Micalizzi’s main theme uses small orchestra with rock instruments, and in place of wailing mixed chorus there’s wailing...

Alhambra’s CD was mastered from the composer’s own stereo tapes, and sounds pristine, due to the label’s top-notch engineering. Many of the score’s sonic nuances – striking currents of...

Mike Judge’s Office Space (1999) became a cult favourite on home video after its theatrical run failed to impress audiences and studio Fox, and part of the film’s success comes from an effectively...

Theodore Shapiro’s score for this live action version of Jeff Kinney’s illustrated novel is based around a vibrant, addictive theme which manages to work in every conceivable permutation, no...