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Varese Sarabande digs up a fresh BLOOD SIMPLE!
I’m thrilled to death to know where the body is buried with my liner notes to Varese Sarabande’s expanded edition of BLOOD SIMPLE, the sanguine gloved window breakthrough of the legendary collaboration between Carter Burwell and The Coen Brothers, featuring a new interview with the composer on his groundbreaking score. It’s a remastered album that’s…
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David Arnold has a license to thrill on a new Film Music Live!
Watch a new Film Music Live as DAVID ARNOLD has a license to to videocast thrill with an extensive, career-ranging interview that looks at the origins of his Stargate theme, taking the 007 baton from John Barry, exploding with the buddy cop action of Hot Fuzz and giving humanity to heaven and hell with a…
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Interview with “The Bear’s” Jeffrey “JQ” Qaiyum
Certainly the biggest TV cooking phenomena to hit since “Hell’s Kitchen,” “The Bear” makes Gordon Ramsey seem positively Pollyanna when it comes to the blistering, scream-in-your-face insanity of a cast of characters that’s anything but what you’d expect from refined dining. Yet that’s the world that disgraced top chef “Carmy” Berzatto crashes into when he…
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Alan Silvestri’s MOUSE HUNT romps on Varese Sarabande’s CD Club!
Today’s the day when you can really romp with a wilder musical MOUSE HUNT as Varese Sarabande’s CD Club unleashes a bigger, better trap of Alan Silvestri’s delightful score, with my liner notes featuring new interviews with director Gore Verbinski and writer Adam Rifkin on this comedy classic where Roger Rabbit’s composer jumped into the…
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Andrew Hollander plays the movie mania of “Once Upon a Time in Uganda”
It takes a village to make a good film that lives on in the high-quality pantheon of notable Oscar pictures. But perhaps it takes even more to make incomprehensibly entertaining pictures that prove just as popular. In America, the latter examples of lunatically enthusiastic movies include “The Room,” “Birdemic” and “Troll 2.” But in tragedy-wreaked…
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Stephanie Economou makes the musical call in high school and under the sea for “Ruby Gillman Teenage Kraken”
When the multiplex is all agawk over a sweet little mermaid, leave it to her seeming bestie “Ruby Gillman Teenage Kraken” to show she’s no ugly duckling when it comes to showing who’s really all that in the hallways and the seven seas. Leave it to her musical avatar Stephanie Economou to bring hip pop…
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THE BOUNTY blu sets sail from Imprint with a tribute to Vangelis
A grand blu box set of THE BOUNTY has now set sail from Down Under on Imprint, with my segment “Limits of Endurance” detailing the course of Vangelis’ extraordinary score. It’s among the copious extras of my favorite cinematic telling of the tale from Daniel Griffith at Ballyhoo Motion Pictures. Order from Imprint HERE, find…
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Playing a PACIFIC BREEZE lawyer who keeps his eyes on the documents
I’m happy to be playing the officious lawyer Tristan Morgan in Fred Copeland‘s streaming serial PACIFIC BREEZE. Check out the first episode of the season, with new entries appearing seaside on Thursdays to the climactic chapter on June 22 HERE
