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TV Review: SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE – Season 38 – Host Martin Short

By CARL CORTEZ | 12/16/2012
Martin Short and Paul McCartney in SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE - Season 38 | ©2012 NBC/Dana Edelson

After a very rough patch of episodes, SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE pulled out all the stops for its Christmas episode hosted by Martin Short with musical guest Paul McCartney. Following on the heels of the tragedy in the Sandy Hook elementary shooting, SNL made the cold opening a very classy and understated moment – they had the New York Children’s Choir sing “Silent Night”. No mention was made of the tragedy, but it was clear what this moment stood for. Very memorable. The rest of the episode was filled with an endless parade of big name cameos (Samuel L. Jackson, Alec […]Read On »


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CD Review: THE BODYGUARD soundtrack (3,500 edition)

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER |
THE BODYGUARD soundtrack | ©2012 La La Land Records

It’s a great thing to be a composer on a diva-driven film whose soundtrack will go through every precious metal LP there is to hang on a best-selling wall. Not so much for score fans hoping to hear the underscore amidst the pop hits, but for the musician who has one or two contractually mandated cuts that will give him a taste of the platinum pie. Now twenty years after the release of THE BODYGUARD, and several months after the sad death of its superstar Whitney Houston, those who are equally enamored of Alan Silvestri have finally gotten their complete […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 12/15/2012
THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY - Bilbo poster | ©2012 Warner Bros./New Line/MGM

Stars: Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Andy Serkis Writers: Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson & Guillermo Del Toro, based on the novel THE HOBBIT by J.R.R. Tolkien Director: Peter Jackson Distributor: Warner Bros./New Line/M-G-M Release Date: December 14, 2012 There’s a lot to love about THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY, particularly for fans of director Peter Jackson’s LORD OF THE RINGS films. Like that astounding fantasy trilogy, THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY is based on the work of J.R.R. Tolkien – THE HOBBIT actually came before LORD OF THE RINGS in Tolkien’s work, but it was […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: Michael C. Hall on DEXTER Season 7 and beyond

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
Michael C. Hall in DEXTER - Season 7 - "Buck the Trend" | ©2012 Showtime/Randy Tepper

Season 7 of DEXTER, Sundays at 9 PM on Showtime, has been pedal to the metal the whole way. Michael C. Hall’s serial killer (of other killers) has not only been coping with the fact that his police lieutenant sister Debra, played by Jennifer Carpenter, has learned his big secret, but he’s also fallen in love with fellow serial killer Hannah McKay, played by Yvonne Strahovski, pissed off the Ukrainian mob and drawn the suspicions of Police Captain LaGuerta (Lauren Velez). There’s shocks, emotional revelation and danger at every turn. With the season finale coming up this Sunday and next […]Read On »


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CD Review: BATTLE OF THE BULGE soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER |
BATTLE OF THE BULGE soundtrack | ©2012 Perseverance Records

Perseverance Records is on a roll re-issuing the original LP-programming of such Warner Brothers titles as CAPRICORN ONE, THE EXORCIST and THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK, their distribution now having grown to encompass Europe (excepting the U.K.) to allow fans to get their hands on these formerly hard to find titles. But if there’s one catalogue soundtrack just might have the most meaning for that continent, then it’s Benjamin Frankel’s 1965 score to BATTLE OF THE BULGE. One of the 60s biggest WW2 spectaculars, BULGE chronicled the Allies’ desperately fought battle to suppress a German tank offensive in Belgium, one that […]Read On »


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CD Review: FRANKENWEENIE soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER |
FRANKENWEENIE soundtrack | ©2012 Walt Disney Records

Tim Burton and his muse Danny Elfman keep doing their darndest to give life to the genie in a stop-motion bottle that was THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, first assembling the body pieces of THE CORPSE BRIDE, and now the doggie bits that comprise FRANKENWEENIE. And even if the public can’t quite seem to get Jack Skellington out of their minds, or ears, it doesn’t mean that this gleefully demonic duo isn’t applying a different shot of energy each time at winged bat (or winged cat-bat demon in this film’s case). Where BRIDE mainly drew life from the comedic opera stylings […]Read On »


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TV Review: ARROW – Season 1 – “Year’s End”

By EGAN BRUMLEY | 12/14/2012
Colin Salmon in ARROW - Season 1 - "Year's End" | ©2012 The CW/Cate Cameron

Stars:  Stephen Amell, Katie Cassidy, Paul Blackthorne, Colin Donnell, Susanna Thompson, Colin Salmon, Willa Holland Teleplay: Andrew Kreisberg & Marc Guggenheim Writer:  Greg Berlanti & Marc Guggenheim Director: John Dahl Network: The CW, airs Wednesday Nights Original Telecast: December 12, 2012 I was worried when “Year’s End” began with Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) spending most of the first quarter of the episode asking his family members why they stopped celebrating Christmas after he and his father were lost at sea and presumed dead.  I was worried because A) the answer was bleeding obvious, (family gatherings were suddenly kind of a […]Read On »


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CD Review: THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER |
THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER soundtrack | ©2012 Atlantic

Not since the days of John Hughes has an upper class teen film captured the agony and ecstasy of entering true adulthood with the poetry of PERKS. So perhaps it’s only fitting that the movie takes place in the 80s, an era when alt. music by The New Order, The Smiths, Sonic Youth and XTC was showing the smart, disaffected kids in class that they counted. Their mix cassette tape likely would have been this terrific CD (or vinyl) compilation on Atlantic, which provides a well-thought out flashback to an unequalled musical era with the likes of “Temptation,” “Asleep,” “Teenage […]Read On »


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TV Review: DEXTER – Season 7 – “Do You See What I See?”

By RACHEL REITSLEFF | 12/13/2012
Michael C. Hall in DEXTER - Season 7 - "Do You See What I See?" | ©2012 Showtime/Randy Tepper

Stars: Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Carpenter, Desmond Harrington, Lauren Velez, C.S. Lee, David Zayas, James Remar, Aimee Garcia, Yvonne Strahovski, Geoff Pierson Writers: Manny Coto & Wendy West, series developed for television by James Manos Jr., based on the books by Jeff Lindsay Director: John Dahl Network: Showtime, Sundays @ 9 PM Original Airdate: December 9, 2012 Reviewing and recapping this season of DEXTER, a person runs the risk of being redundant: There’s so much going on! They went there! The actors are brilliant! What can possibly happen next? Yada-yada-yada. Well, “Do You See What I See?” elicits more of […]Read On »


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CD Review: HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER |
HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER soundtrack | ©2012 Intrada Records

Intrada’s new partnership with Universal to celebrate the studio’s 100th anniversary has yielded many blasts from the company’s musical past, but none so singularly vengeful-minded, or more crazy fun than Dee Barton’s score for Clint Eastwood’s Stranger, the undead sheriff who paints a godforsaken town hell red in 1973’s HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER. Playing, and directing a character who was easily the most sadistic Man With No Name in his cannon, Eastwood deconstructed the genre that made his bones with a picture that was just as much horror as it was western, a genre mix for which his frequent musical collaborator […]Read On »


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