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CD Review: TALES OF AN ANCIENT EMPIRE soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER 10/30/2012
TALES OF AN ANCIENT EMPIRE soundtrack | ©2012 Howlin Wolf

Albert Pyun arguably never had it better than when he made his visually splashy directorial debut thirty years ago with THE SWORD AND THE SORCERER, a film that energetically personified the wackier excesses of that titular 80′s genre. One element that made SWORD‘s” low budget a virtue was a powerful score by David Whitaker (available on Buysoundtrax), whose rousing music impressed, even when the playing of it didn’t. Flash-forward now to the SORCERER‘s sorta follow-up TALES OF AN ANCIENT EMPIRE, which takes on said kingdom with even far fewer shekels. But at the least, let it not be said that […]Read On »


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TV Review: REVENGE – Season 2 – “Forgiveness”

By ANNE LOUISE BANNON
Jennifer Jason Leigh in REVENGE - Season 2 - "Forgiveness" | ©2012 ABC/Eric McCandless

Stars: Emily VanCamp, Madeleine Stowe, Henry Czerny, Josh Bowman, Nick Wechsler, Gabriel Mann, Ashley Madekwe, Christa B. Allen, Connor Paolo Writer: Sunil Nayar Director: Matt Earl Beesley Network: ABC, Wednesday nights, 10 p.m. Original Telecast: October 28, 2013 If there is a scene in “Forgiveness” that lasts longer than two minutes, I would be surprised. REVENGE has always had a problem with too much going on at a time, but it’s going more than a little bit nuts here. Add that to a sound problem that made the dialogue hard to hear in a few crucial instances, and it was rough going. Because the real Emily Thorne is actually pretending to be […]Read On »


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TV Review: ONCE UPON A TIME – Season 2 – “The Doctor”

By ANNE LOUISE BANNON
Sarah Bolger in ONCE UPON A TIME - Season 2 - "The Doctor" | ©2012 ABC/Jack Rowand

Stars: Ginnifer Goodwin, Jennifer Morrison, Robert Carlyle, Lana Parrilla, Jared Gilmore, Josh Dallas, Emilie de Ravin, Meghan Ory Writer: Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis Director: Paul Edwards Network: ABC, Sunday nights, 8 p.m. Original Telecast: October 28, 2012 Vamping is a term from the old Broadway stage which means to play music or do a little dance or something to keep the audience in the mood while the storytelling stops to move scenery or some such thing. You can even see it in the music scores – the vamp is a section that can be played for an extended time, in case something sticks, or shortened quickly if things are […]Read On »


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DANCING WITH THE STARS: ALL-STARS Season 15 Recap: All Stars Go Country

By PAMELA HARLAND
Sabrina Bryan and Louis Van Amstel in DANCING WITH THE STARS: ALL-STARS | ©2012 ABC/Craig Sjodin

Stars:  Emmitt Smith, Gilles Marini, Kelly Monaco, Melissa Rycroft, Apolo Anton Ohno, Kirstie Alley, Shawn Johnson, Sabrina Bryan Network: ABC, airs Mondays, Tuesdays Original Telecast: October 29th, 2012 Yee-Haw! We didn’t see any line dancing but yes it was  Country Night on DANCING WITH THE STARS and the couples came out and giddy-upped their routines in the finest shape this here side of Texas. In fact, two duos – Apolo Anton Ohno & Karina Smirnoff and Sabrina Bryan & Louis Van Amstel earned perfect 30s tonight which were added onto their scores of last week, landing them in first place […]Read On »


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CD Review: THE GREAT TEXAS DYNAMITE CHASE soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER 10/29/2012
THE GREAT TEXAS DYNAMITE CHASE soundtrack | ©2012 Buysoundtrax

While Craig Safan impressed with his big-budget 80s orchestral scores for THE LAST STARFIGHTER and REMO WILLIAMS, the composer was first at home with a smaller sound that particularly befitted the drive-in speakers of red state America during the 1970s- two cases in point being the south-sploitation cult favorites THE GREAT SMOKEY ROADBLACK and THE GREAT TEXAS DYNAMITE CHASE. First up is a 1976 Henry Fonda vehicle whose title road the coattails of SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT knock-offs, while the film itself was a far more serious trucker flick about facing one’s final run by smashing into a bunch of […]Read On »


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CD Review: THE FOG: EXPANDED EDITION soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER
THE FOG: EXPANDED EDITION soundtrack | ©2012 Silva Screen Records

It was 133 years ago that a ship full of lepers went down off of Spivey point near Antonio Bay, and a seemingly impossible 33 years last when John Houseman told the tale to open what’s arguably John Carpenter’s most atmospheric chiller. Only a few piano chords and a barely perceptible synths accompanied the old salt’s ghost story. But in that simplicity lay a world of fear, even if the re-performed FOG soundtrack that came out in 2000 was perhaps a bit too sonically souped up for its own good. Now at long last, Silva Screen has released the original […]Read On »


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TV Review: THE WALKING DEAD – Season 3 – “Walk with Me”

By ARNOLD T. BLUMBERG
Michael Rooker in THE WALKING DEAD - Season 3 - "Walk With Me" | ©2012 AMC/Gene Page

Stars: Andrew Lincoln, David Morrissey, Sarah Wayne Callies, Laurie Holden, Norman Reedus, Steven Yeun, Lauren Cohan, Chandler Riggs, Danai Gurira, Melissa Suzanne McBride, IronE Singleton, Michael Rooker, Scott Wilson, Emily Kinney, Troy Faruk, Dallas Roberts  Writer: Evan Reilly  Director: Guy Ferland Network: AMC, airs Sunday nights  Original Telecast: October 28, 2012 In the third episode of THE WALKING DEAD Season 3, “Walk with Me,” a spectacular helicopter crash alerts Michonne (Danai Gurira) and Andrea (Laurie Holden) to the possibility of other potential survivors in a crucial episode that finally brings us face to face with the comic book’s ultimate villain – the Governor […]Read On »


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TV Review: SUPERNATURAL – Season 8 – “Bitten”

By RACHEL REITSLEFF 10/28/2012
Jared Padalecki in SUPERNATURAL - Season 7 - "Bitten" | ©2012 The CW/James Dittiger

Stars: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Leigh Parker, Brit Sheridan, Brandon W. Jones, David Lewis Writer: Robbie Thompson, series created by Eric Kripke Director: Thomas J. Wright Network: The CW, Wednesdays @ 9 PM Original Airdate: October 24, 2012 As someone pointed out, video isn’t “footage,” which refers to actual film. With “Bitten,” SUPERNATURAL takes a bite out of the found-video genre, which is so-so. On the one hand, episode writer Robbie Thompson and director Thomas J. Wright seem to want to make a little horror movie of their own, going so far as to hold all credits (even those for […]Read On »


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TV Review: FRINGE – Season 5 – “The Bullet That Saved the World”

By CARL CORTEZ
Georgina Haig in FRINGE - Season 5 - "The Bullet That Saved the World" | ©2012 Fox/Liane Hentscher

Stars: Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, Jasika Nicole, John Noble, Lance Reddick, Blair Brown, Georgina Haig Writer:  Alison Schapker Director: David Straiton Network: Fox, airs Friday nights Original Telecast: October 28, 2012 Just when I thought FRINGE was going to get too repetitive with its “let’s find the videotape of the week” storyline as Walter (John Noble) tries to reconstruct the plan to destroy the Observers and save the world, “The Bullet That Saved The World” completely changes everything. A really solid episode that has a shocking moment toward the end that changes the fifth season of the series moving forward. […]Read On »


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CD Review: ARBITRAGE soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER
ARBITRAGE soundtrack | ©2012 Milan Records

His characters are often under intense pressure, with no easy way out in sight. Not that most of Cliff Martinez’s scores sweat their predicaments out in the traditional sense, preferring to speak volumes for the agitated states of bank robbers (THE UNDERNEATH), drug dealers (TRAFFIC) and the fate-cursed (FIRST SNOW) through the tides and ebbs of pulsing, rock-inspired rhythms and suspenseful, dream like sustains. Now the former Chili Pepper has segued from from the monosyllabic getaway man of DRIVE to the far more talkative, and rich antihero of ARBITRAGE the kind of mogul who prefers to put others in the […]Read On »


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