September 2 , 2010: 2010 Gemini Award Nominees on Home Video
The 2010 Gemini (not Genie, not Juno, just Gemini!) Award Nominees currently on home video...
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August 31 , 2010: 2010 Emmy Winners on Home Video
Emmy Award Winners now and soon-to-be on home video...
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August 30 , 2010: An Autopsy of the Dead Films, Part 2
In Part 2 of this series, we offer up interviews with director Jeff Carney and Jim Cirronella, filmmakers of the latest Night of the Living Dead documentary, Autopsy of the Dead (Zero day Releasing)...
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Editor's Blog on the release of the 1972 concert doc Elvis on Tour (Warner Home Video) and the TV mini-series Elvis (Shout! Factory) starring Kurt Russell, and directed by John Carpenter...
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August 28 , 2010: Abandoned Matinees III - The Cinema Theater Varia (Belgium)
The third installment highlights Belgium's Cinema Theater Varia, built between 1910-1913, and derelict for more than 20 years...
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August 27 , 2010: An Autopsy of the Dead Films, Part 1
Editor's Blog on the imminent release of George A. Romero's latest zombie film, Survival of the Dead (2009), plus reviews of the documentaries Autopsy of the Dead (2009) and Night of the Living Dead: 25th Anniversary Documentary (1993)...
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August 25 , 2010: Piranhas, Piranhas, Everywhere - Part 1
Film review of Alexandre Aja's Piranha 3D (2010), plus an interview with composer Michael Wandmacher on creating music for killer fish within the 3D realm...
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August 24 , 2010: Soundtrack News & Upcoming Releases
Latest tally of upcoming & current soundtrack releases, and rumblings of John Barry's The Deep...
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August 22 , 2010: No Superpowers Whatsoever
Reviews of two overlooked and marginalized comic book movies - The Losers (Warner Home Video), and Kick-Ass (Canada: Maple, U.S.: Lionsgate)...
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I Spit on Your Grave (2010) at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival, Yael Hersonski's A Film Unfinished (2010), and digital scrubbing...
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August 16 , 2010: Abandoned Matinees II
The second installment highlights the work of photographer Yves Marchand and Romain Mefre...
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August 13 , 2010: Durham County and Other TV News
DVD review of Durham County: Season 2 (Anchor Bay), plus news of some upcoming TV series on DVD...
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August 12 , 2010: Bring on the Virgins
Reviews of WHV's Blu-rays of the 1981 and 2010 Clash of the Titans, Paramount's Dragonslayer DVD, and Alex North's Dragonslayer score (La-La Land)...
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August 8 , 2010: Abandoned Matinees
Editor's Blog on lost, forgotten, and abandoned movie theatres, as documented through online photographers...
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August 5 , 2010: Sanity Slippage
A quartet of films about environments affecting the mental and physical states of poor heroes: the Blu-ray release of Insomnia (Warner Home Video), The Hungry Hills and Iodine (both via Anchor Bay Entertainment Canada), and Ole Bornedal's Nightwatch / Nattevagten (Anchor Bay)...
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August 5 , 2010: Chloe and Tronno
Blu-ray review of Atom Egoyan's Chloe (Sony), plus the new release / whoops-all-sold-out CD of Alan Silvestri's Predator score (Intrada)...
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July 31 , 2010: Soundtrack Reviews and Upcoming Releases
CD reviews of Franco Micalizzi’s Le Amazzoni / Battle of the Amazons (DigitMovies), Angelo Francesco Lavagnino’s score for the 1955 travelogue / documentary Continente Perduto / The Lost Continent (Alhambra), Mark Mancina’s complete Speed 2: Cruise Control (La-La Land), Theodore Shapiro’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid (La-La Land), and La-La Land’s Mike Judge double-billing of John Frizzell’s Office Space, and Shapiro’s Idiocracy, PLUS new soundtrack and isolated score news, and MGM's fumbling of Escape from New York on Blu-ray...
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An interview with Days of Our Lives composer D. Brent Nelson, goosed with unreleased cues from the series, plus a bit of Editorial blather...
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July 24 , 2010: A Star is Born, Part Two (B) (1976)
Editorial blather and a review of the 1976 version of a Star is Born, starring Babs Streisand in all of her evergreen-afro glory...
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July 24 , 2010: No souvlaki for you, laughing boy!
Editorial blather on being under the weather' during a happy sunny July in T.O...
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July 19 , 2010: New & Upcoming Soundtrack releases
This week's tally of new, imminent, and coming soon soundtracks...
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July 15 , 2010: A Star is Born, Part Two (A) (1954)
Blu-ray review of Warner Home Video's snazzy A Star is Born (1954)...
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July 13 , 2010: A Star is Born, Part One (1932-1937)
The first of three detailed examinations about one man's alcoholism almost ruining the life of a Hollywood starlet. Part begins with comparative reviews of What Price Hollywood? (1932) and the better-known A Star is Born (1937), plus the TCM doc about women in pre-Code films, Complicated Women...
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July 8 , 2010: 2010 Prime Time Emmy Award Nominees on Home Video
2010 Prime Time Emmy Award Nominations, with handy links for titles available on DVD, Blu-ray, and CD…
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July 6 , 2010: Soundtrack News & Reviews
Review of Rolf Kent's Killers (Lionsgate), John Williams' The Poseidon Adventure and Marc Shaiman's Speechless (La-La Land), plus upcoming soundtrack news...
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July 1 , 2010: G20 T.O. Reflections
Reflections on the debacle that was the G20 Toronto Summit on our national day of good vibes, Canada Day...
- MRH
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