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Aisle Seat 6-17: Dazzling DARK CITY Restored In 4K
Posted By Andy Dursin 6/16/2025 - 10:00 PM
Director Alex Proyas showed with “The Crow” that flashy directorial technique and a sense of style can overcome a deficient plot. In his 1998 follow-up DARK CITY (111/100 mins., R; Arrow), Proyas concocted a fascinating science-fiction thriller with a story that lives up to the evocative settings and dense noir atmosphere surrounding it. Now on UHD in a restored Arrow box-set, there’s never been a better time to (re)visit one of the best films of the ‘90s.
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Film Score Friday 6/13/25
Posted By Scott Bettencourt 6/12/2025 - 10:00 PM
Lukas Kendall is launching a new Film Score Monthly Kickstarter to finance a new version of the website (trust me, the frequent crashing of the site is even more vexing for those of us trying to finish columns than it is for our beloved readers), a Best-of-Film-Score-Monthly compilation book, a re-pressing of the FSM composer trading cards, and the first new FSM CD in several years. For more information, please click on this link.


The latest release from Intrada is a two-disc edition of John Debney's score for LUCK, the 2022 animated fantasy produced by legendary computer animation pioneer John Lasseter. 


CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK

Luck
- John Debney - Intrada Special Collection


IN THEATERS TODAY

Block Pass - Evgueni & Sacha Galperine
Echo Valley - Jed Kurzel
How to Train Your Dragon - John Powell
In the Fire of War - Arli Liberman, Tiki Tane 
Materialists - Daniel Pemberton
Prime Minister - Sofia degli Alessandri 
Sunlight - Christoph Bauschinger
The Unholy Trinity - Marco Beltrami, Tristan Beltrami 

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Aisle Seat 6-10: Catalog Mania on 4K and Blu-Ray
Posted By Andy Dursin 6/9/2025 - 10:00 PM
Via Vision’s Imprint label continues to release a superb array of limited-edition titles, with their on-going (and now genre-spanning) “Tales of Adventure” box-sets going the sci-fi route for the first time with TALES OF ADVENTURE: COLLECTION 5. This five-movie anthology hits squarely within the realm of mid ‘50s outer-space flicks, with both studio and lower-budgeted affairs included for good measure.
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Film Score Friday 6/6/25
Posted By Scott Bettencourt 6/5/2025 - 10:00 PM
La-La Land has announced two new score CD releases, expected to ship later this month.

UNION PACIFIC: THE PARAMOUNT WESTERNS COLLECTION VOL. 2, is a four-disc set that features music from the following films: Union Pacific (John Leipold, Victor Young, Leo Shuken, Charles Bradshaw), The Virginian (Daniele Amfitheatrof), Blue (Manos Hadjidakis), California, The Paleface (both by Victor Young), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Cyril J. Mockridge), Red Mountain (Franz Waxman), The Lonely Man (Nathan Van Cleave) and The Tin Star (Elmer Bernstein), plus individual cues from Texas Rangers Ride Again, Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die, Whispering Smith, The Redhead and the Cowboy and Run for Cover.

They are also releasing an "Ultimate Cut" edition of Harry Manfredini's score for what is arguably the best of all the Jason Voorhees slasher films, FRIDAY THE 13TH, PART VI: JASON LIVES, from 1986, directed by Tom McLoughlin.

And in conjunction with their ongoing series of expanded and remastered James Bond score CDs, they are releasing a new vinyl edition of John Barry's classic GOLDFINGER.


CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK

Fly Me to the Moon - Daniel Pemberton - Diggers Factory
Il Comissario Pepe
 - Armando Trovaioli - Quartet  
Kill!
 - Berto Pisano - Quartet
La proprieta non e'piu un furto
 - Ennio Morricone - Quartet 
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
 - Lalo Schifrin - Dragon's Domain   

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Aisle Seat 6-5 Weekend Edition: Bond, Finally, In 4K
Posted By Andy Dursin 6/5/2025 - 4:00 AM
4K UHD owners have long tabbed this week’s release of the SEAN CONNERY 007 6-FILM COLLECTION (Warner) as one of the format’s biggest releases of the year. This Warner anthology presents Sean Connery’s entire Eon tenure as James Bond with new Dolby Vision HDR remasters and Dolby Atmos soundtracks, and while the enhancements may come off as mild in terms of detail, there are big improvements in color reproduction to be found here – especially once Bond makes the move into anamorphic widescreen in “Thunderball.” And speaking of that, there’s a big surprise here too: for the first time, fans can choose between two different sound mixes that have long confounded aficionados of Connery’s fourth foray as 007.
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June FSMO Is Live!
Posted By Jon Kaplan 6/5/2025 - 3:00 AM

The June edition of FSM ONLINE is now live for your reading and listening pleasure. This month’s cover story is an interview with MAX ARUJ and ALFIE GODFREY about taking the reins from Lorne Balfe on MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - THE FINAL RECKONING. Also this issue are an interview TIM WYNN, who scores the smash hit horror sequel FINAL DESTINATION BLOODLINES;

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Aisle Seat 6-3: OCN Spring Wrap, New Releases
Posted By Andy Dursin 6/2/2025 - 10:00 PM
Director John Badham had a big run from the ‘70s through the late ‘80s, with “Saturday Night Fever,” “WarGames,” “Blue Thunder,” “Short Circuit” and “Stakeout” becoming bona-fide box-office hits. Even Badham’s movies that didn’t quite come off commercially were solid – the John Williams-scored “Dracula” (1979) among those – yet Badham hit a wall when the 1990s began. Several misfires followed before DROP ZONE (102 mins., 1994, R; Cinematographe) was made, and while this Wesley Snipes vehicle was only a modest performer in the Christmas ‘94 marketplace, it provides a reasonably diverting genre experience that easily counts as one of Badham’s better films from the era.
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Film Score Friday 5/30/25
Posted By Scott Bettencourt 5/29/2025 - 10:00 PM
Intrada has announced two new film music CDs available this week -- the Kickstarter-funded re-recording of three previously unavailable Jerry Goldsmith TV scores - PURSUIT (Michael Crichton's directorial debut, and his first collaboration with the composer), CRAWLSPACE (no relation to the Klaus Kinski film) and THE PEOPLE NEXT DOOR (remade as a feature a few years later with a Don Sebesky score); and an expanded, two-disc edition of Michael Kamen's score for the 1993 remake of THE THREE MUSKETEERS, starring Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Oliver Platt and Chris O'Donnell as the musketeers (as I said, 1993), co-starring Julie Delpy, Gabrielle Anwar, Rebecca De Mornay and Tim Curry.


CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK

Battle of Neretva
 - Bernard Herrmann - Dragon's Domain 
Pursuit/Crawlspace/The People Next Door [re-recording] - Jerry Goldsmith - Intrada
Return from the River Kwai
 - Lalo Schifrin - Dragon's Domain
The Three Musketeers - Michael Kamen - Intrada Special Collection
Too Late the Hero
 - Gerald Fried - Dragon's Domain  


IN THEATERS TODAY

Bring Her Back - Cornel Wilczek
Ghost Trail - Yuksek 
Henry Johnson - Jay Wadley
Karate Kid: Legends - Dominic Lewis
Love - Peder Capjon Kjellsby
Niki - Para One
Ocean with David Attenborough - Steven Price
The Phoenecian Scheme - Alexandre Desplat
Tornado - Jed Kurzel

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Aisle Seat 5-27: Kino Lorber, Severin, FCE New Spins
Posted By Andy Dursin 5/26/2025 - 10:00 PM
I sort-of recall watching PROPHECY (102 mins., 1979, PG; Kino Lorber) on network TV in the early ’80s, and getting quite upset that Talia Shire’s unborn baby could be a mutated, one-eyed monster — the kind of thing you might expect from a tired grade-schooler who probably shouldn’t have been staying up to watch this movie to begin with. Years later when I finally rewatched the movie on DVD, I was reawakened to the charms of this 1979 John Frankenheimer genre fiasco, coming away believing that a) giant mutated bear movies are cool, and b) even though “Prophecy” is far from a good movie, they really don’t make silly horror films the way they used to back in the late ’70s and early ’80s.
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Film Score Friday 5/23/25
Posted By Scott Bettencourt 5/22/2025 - 10:00 PM
Buysoundtrax and its related labels have announced four new film music CDs - re-releases of two war movie scores, BATTLE OF NERETVA by Bernard Herrmann and TOO LATE THE HERO by Gerald Fried, as well as two WWII-related scores by Lalo Schifrin - RETURN FROM THE RIVER KWAI, from 1988, and Schifrin's dramatic cantata based on his score for the TV documentary THE RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH.


CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK

Speak No Evil - Sune "Koter" Kolster - Svart 


IN THEATERS TODAY

The Eternal Song - Armand Amar
Jane Austen Wrecked My Life - Peter Van Poehl
The Last Rodeo - Jeff Russo
Lilo & Stitch - Dan Romer
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning - Max Aruj, Alfie Godfrey
The New Boy - Nick Cave, Warren Ellis
Sister Midnight - Paul Banks

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