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via Weekly Virtual Film Festival     WATCH Tonight: Tuesday July 7th. 8pm EST (5pm on the West Coast.). Virtual Film Festival, Sponsored by Yonge/Dundas Square. Featuring the BEST DRAMA & EXPERIMENTAL Shorts from around the world today: LINEUP OF FILMS: FIRST ACT PROGRAM PLAY, 13min., Poland, Drama Directed by Piotr Sulkowski A man consumed by… Continue reading Weekly Virtual Film Festival

In the year 1987, NASA launches it’s final manned mission. Captain Buck Rogers (Gil Gerard) is sent into space but, while he’s orbiting the Earth, he and his spacecraft fall victim to a strange space anomaly which leaves him in suspended animation. On Earth, Buck Rogers is believed to be lost. 500 years pass. Buck’s […]… Continue reading Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979, directed by Daniel Haller) — Through the Shattered Lens

Eddie Keller (Richard Pryor) is a member of the U.S. Army, serving in Vietnam when he gets captured by the VC and spends the next few years in a POW camp. During that time, he befriends another POW named Vinnie (Ray Sharkey). Though the quick-witted Eddie is often able to outsmart his captors and their […]… Continue reading Some Kind of Hero (1982, directed by Michael Pressman) — Through the Shattered Lens

Today, I arrived home to the sad news that Ennio Morricone, the world’s greatest composer, had passed away at the age of 91. Morricone was responsible for so many classic film scores that it’s hard to know where to begin. I imagine I’ll be sharing a lot of his music over the next couple of […]… Continue reading Song of the Day: Deborah’s Theme by Ennio Morricone — Through the Shattered Lens

Rest in peace, Charlie Daniels. via Music Video of the Day: Tangled Up In Blue, performed by The Charlie Daniels Band (2014, directed by David Corlew and Nathan Shuppert) — Through the Shattered Lens

Continuing our little tribute to Ennio Morricone, today’s song of the day comes the 1976’s Italian thriller, Hitch-Hike. This is not one of Morricone’s better-known scores but it’s still one of my favorites. The film’s pretty good, too. Franco Nero vs. David Hess with a score by Ennio Morricone? How couldn’t that be a classic? […]… Continue reading Song of the Day: Violaznioe Violenza by Ennio Morricone — Through the Shattered Lens

Listen: there are three types of music videos. Expensive Monsters, made by pop stars and rappers, and these videos have budgets bigger than the gross national product of Paraguay. Shoestring Specials, shot on your buddies iPhone and edited by Carl, who dropped out of UCLA film school but still has his subscription to the Adobe […]… Continue reading DATA AND PICARD is the weirdest music video in the quandrant — The Red Pen of Doom

Quarantine sure stoked the creative juices of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” team. Normally, they’d be busy working on a new season of “Maisel” at this point. But since they’re following COVID-19 stay-at-home orders, the show’s dancers, musicians, cast and crew instead put together a 10-minute music video. The video, which Amazon Prime Video will share […]… Continue reading ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ Team Creates Music Video Extravaganza From Their Homes (Watch) — Variety