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Kekko Kamen
by Chris Beveridge (Thu 02-10-2005)

What They SayNo, that’s not a skin-tight pink costume — it’s her skin! She’s Kekko Kamen, the dynamic denuded damsel who fights injustice in the altogether. Her mission? To expose rampant classroom corruption at the Big Toenail of ...

KEKKO KAMEN
by Brain Thomas (Mon 02-21-2005)

...eation of KEKKO KAMEN, a superhero who never needs to worry about ripping her uniform. “Kamen” seems to be the Japanese equivalent of “masked hero”, and while Kekko hides her true identity behind a crimson mask, that’s about all she wears – aside from ...

ADV Films Announces Release of Kekko Kamen (Sat 01-22-2005)

...apades of Kekko Kamen as the wrapper comes off February 15, 2005. From acclaimed anime creator Go Nagai (Devil Lady, Cutey Honey), Kekko Kamen is an off-the-wall sexploitation comedy that is certain to raise a few…eyebrows! For fans of superhero...


Kekko Kamen English Cast Finalized (Wed 09-22-2004)

Director: Don Rush Studio: IS&M Kekko Kamen - Voiced by Christine Auten - the heorine of the story. She fights evil wearing nothing but a pair of boots, a pair of gloves, a scarf, and a pair of tights on her head. She uses a pair of nun-chucks, but her f...

Cutey Honey / Kekko Kamen Double Feature (Wed 03-05-2008)

What They SayContains the entire New Cutey Honey release along with Kekko Kamen!The Review!FeaturesJapanese 2.0 Language,English 2.0 Language,English SubtitlesReview Equipment

Kekko Kamen English Cast List Finalized (Wed 09-22-2004)

In an effort to bring an old school favorite of many Go Nagai fans to a new audience, the Kekko Kamen show is getting a dub for the first time and the English language version cast list is now finalized, as posted today by ADV\'s Janice Williams.

Early DVD Review: Kekko Kamen (Thu 02-10-2005)

By a few days at least, as this is due out on 02/15/2005, we\'ve got a look at the ADV Films release of Kekko Kamen.


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ADV Films Announces Release of Kekko Kamen (Sat 01-22-2005)

One of the more interesting Go Nagai shows gets the official nod from ADV Films for US release.

Kekko Kamen Cast Guessing Game (Mon 09-20-2004)

A new (non-contest) game has started up in the English Track forum to guess the English language cast for ADV\'s dub of their upcoming Kekko Kamen DVD release is underway. Join in!

Horror classics
by Brian Thomas (Tue 09-26-2006)

...ry. (O) KEKKO KAMEN LIVE! (Media Blasters) 4-disc set collects the manga adaptation about a sexy nude superhero: KEKKO KAMEN NEW, KEKKO KAMEN STRIKES BACK, KEKKO KAMEN RETURNS and KEKKO KAMEN SURPRISE. LADY VENGEANCE © Tartan (O) LADY V...


ADV Films New Title Solicitations (Wed 03-05-2008)

A new round of solicitations for May has shown up for ADV Films via the AAAAnime site this morning as well as a pair of double features that will hit in April:Cutey Honey / Kekko Kamen Double Feature - N/A minutes - $24.98 - 04/01/2008 Devil May Cry Vol. ...

The Gainax Bounce Effect
by His Lordship Chaos (-)

...ou've got Kekko Kamen running around, I can assure you. Then you've got the ones who react in the opposite fashion: they proceed to chase after said bounteous ladies. Obvious contenders (read: perverts) include Carrot Glaces, Happosai and City Hunter's...

The final FINAL DVD?
by Brian Thomas (Tue 07-25-2006)

...ler. (O) KEKKO KAMEN: SURPRISE! (Media Blasters) The nude superhero is back! (O) KUNG FU THEATER: CHINESE DRAGON / EVERLASTING DUEL (Brentwood) (O) KUNG FU THEATER: NEW YORK CHINATOWN / MASTER OF DISASTER (Brentwood) (O) KvC: KOMODO VS. COBRA (Lion...

Daily DVD
by BRIAN THOMAS (Tue 06-28-2005)

...MBIE. (O) KEKKO KAMEN NEW (Media Blasters) A naked superheroine protects a young broadcasting student from sadistic teachers. (O) KIBAKICHI (Saiko/MTI) New Asian horror label distributed by MTI brings us a new horror fantasy from the director of SAKUYA...


New This Week (Sun 03-30-2008)

...y Honey / Kekko Kamen Double Feature (of 1) ADV Films 240+90 min. 24.98 04/01/2008   Dan Doh! Complete Collection (Anime Legends Edition) (of 1) Bandai Entertainment 650 min. 49.98 04/01/2...

Enter the Screenwriter
by Anthony C. Ferrante (Tue 07-10-2001)

While just about every movie that's hit theaters this summer has cost over $70 million to produce, there's definitely something to be said for the underdog. The $35 million drag strip racing film THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS has just surpassed the $100 millio...

Composer Michael Kamen passes away
by Patrick Sauriol (Wed 11-19-2003)

Oscar-nominated composer Michael Kamen has died. The 55-year-old, who gave us such memorable scores for such films as DIE HARD, LETHAL WEAPON, HIGHLANDER and X-MEN, passed away due to his battle with multiple sclerosis. Doctors said that Kamen suffered a ...

Kamen Tantei Vol.#01
by Greg Hackmann (Mon 03-10-2008)

Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Matsuri AkinoTranslated by:Mike KieflAdapted by:Patrick NeighlyWhat They SayA pair of young aspiring mystery writers tries to crack the most bizarre, baffling, and hilarious cases around them. But as clues often lead to a dead...


Imagi Sets Writer Kamen for GATCHAMAN
by News Editor (Mon 06-18-2007)

Imagi Studios  has signed Robert Mark Kamen (LETHAL WEAPON 3, KISS OF THE DRAGON) to write the  the upcoming CG-animated motion picture GATCHAMAN. Kamen will work closely on GATCHAMAN with producer Lynne Southerland and director Kevi...

Michael Kamen dies at 55
by Randall Larson (Thu 11-20-2003)

Film music lost one of its finest contemporary practitioners this week with the sudden death of Michael Kamen on November 18th. The 55-year old composer had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1996, but had persevered with a number of musical assign...

Manga Review: Kamen Tantei (Mon 03-10-2008)

Greg\'s taking the start of a short run series for a spin today with a look at the September 2006 release of Kamen Tantei Vol. #1 (of 4) from TOKYOPOP.

Complete LIFEFORCE score CD available
by Randall D. Larson (Mon 10-16-2006)

Tremendously dramatic sci-fi score harkens back to Henry Mancini's days at Universal Studios in the '50s.Buysoundtrax has announced their latest release, a 2-disc edition of the complete score to LIFEFORCE, Tobe Hooper's lavish science fiction/horror spec...


Scribe Talks Jet Li's MONK Movie
by Frank Kurtz (Wed 07-11-2001)

Writer Robert Mark Kamen has two potential projects in the works with Jet Li. As previously reported, one of the projects would have Jet Li playing the part of a Tibetan monk who journeys to New York City only to encounter some of the harsher apects of Am...

Jet Li gets KISSed
by Craig D. Reid (Fri 07-06-2001)

All of the hype and excitement from the American press surrounding KISS OF THE DRAGON (KOD for short) is focused on the coincidence that Tcheky Karyo, who plays the lead villain, was in Luc Besson's LA FEMME NIKITA(1991), while co-star Bridget Fonda playe...

Comics in the Wild
by Matt Kamen (Mon 09-11-2006)

A slightly shorter UK Cine this week, since I'm off on holiday and, chances are, you're not. We'll start with some more news on comics this week, primarily a quick chat with Andy Baker, one of the organisers of December's Birmingham International Comics S...

John Powell to score 'X-Men 3'
by Randall Larson (Fri 12-16-2005)

X-MEN 3 will get an original score by John Powell (ROBOTS, SHREK, PAYCHECK). The prestigious assignment has been confirmed to Music from the Movies by 20th Century Fox. Powell, whose previous action scores include FACE/OFF, THE BOURNE IDENTITY and THE ITA...


An Epic Gothic Rock Soundtrack
by Randall D. Larson (Thu 04-06-2006)

THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATION Like many progressive metal and gothic rock bands, the Dutch group Epica has been strongly influenced by motion picture soundtracks. Their first two albums, The Phantom Agony (June, 2003), and Consign to Oblivion (April, 2005) a...

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen 20th Anniversary Edition
by Robert T. Trate (Tue 04-22-2008)

Several years ago after watching Terry Gilliam’s Twelve Monkeys I embarked on massive screening of his films. I was doing fine until I got to The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.  I was confused, frustrated and bored. I loved the Fishe...

THE TRANSPORTER 2
by Rachel Reitsleff (Tue 09-13-2005)

THE TRANSPORTER 2 isn't for everybody. The goings-on are usually completely absurd, but the movie is played with an absolutely straight face. However, director Louis Leterrier and returning (from TRANSPORTER 1) writers Luc Besson & Robert Mark Kamen s...

Fish Heads, Fish Heads
by Randall Larson (Thu 04-12-2007)

THIS WEEK’S RECOMMENDATIONS  Sweden’s new film label, Fin de Siècle Media, has released a real treasure of late 70’s Eurohorror film music – Luciano Michelini’s provocative score for L’Isola Degli Uomini...


Ilan Eshkeri – Rising from “Hannibal” to fantasy epic "Stardust"
by Randall Larson (Tue 01-16-2007)

Ilan Eshkeri is quickly emerging as one of the hottest new composers in the business. Close on the heels of Hannibal Rising, the latest film in the Hannibal Lecter series, Eshkeri has been hired to compose the music for Stardust, the film version of N...

MAGIC Appears TIMELINE Disappears
by Randall D. Larson (Thu 04-24-2003)

THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONSA rare Jerry Goldsmith classic comes to CD for the first time with this month's new limited edition Soundtrack Club release from Varese Sarabande. Composed in 1978 the same year that brought such Goldsmith classics as the power...

KISS OF THE DRAGON
by Carl Cortez (Fri 07-06-2001)

While Jet Li has been a Hong Kong sensation for years, only recently with such box office hits as LETHAL WEAPON 4 and ROMEO MUST DIE has the actor broken through to a wider, global audience. Whereas those films did manage to dilute his martial arts prow...

TOMB RAIDER: Composer Graeme Revell
by Ford A. Thaxton and Randall D. Larson (Sat 06-23-2001)

The outré and the exotic have been comfortable habitats for composer Graeme Revell over the majority of his career. Of his more than 60 films scores since 1989, over one third can be considered either science fiction or fantastic horror thrillers: films l...


RED PLANET, AUSTIN POWERS, THE GRINCH and FREQUENCY
by Randall D. Larson (Sat 11-11-2000)

Current CD Soundtrack ReleasesA big disappointment is the first soundtrack release of HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS (ISC 490765). Of the CD’s 76:51 minutes, less than 45 contain James Horner’s rousing and playful orchestral music. As expected in today’...

THE TRANSPORTER
by Abbie Bernstein (Fri 10-11-2002)

Odds are good that THE TRANSPORTER will do much better in venues where audiences are accustomed to shrugging off screwy plots as disposable packaging for a lot of very impressive kick-ass setpieces. Director Corey Yuen provides his European cast with a fr...

Daredevil Versus Dr. Phibes
by Randall D. Larson (Thu 03-27-2003)

This Week's RecommendationSVarese Sarabande's vibrant new recording of Bernard Herrmann's classic science fiction score for 1951's THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (302 066 314 2) expands the previous original soundtrack recording (20th Century Fox 11010-2, ...

Freddy Vs. Jason Vs. The Creeper
by Randall D. Larson (Thu 10-02-2003)

THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONSGraeme Revell (PITCH BLACK, TOMB RAIDER, MISSION TO MARS) inherits the musical mantle inaugurated by Harry Manfredini in 1980 with the first FRIDAY THE 13TH movie. Whereas NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET had no real musical signature, w...


ADV Films New Title Solicitations (Wed 12-01-2004)

...02/08/2005Kekko Kamen - 90 minutes - $29.98 - 02/15/2005Legend of Crystania: The Chaos Ring Essential Anime Collection - 135 minutes - $19.98 - 02/15/2005Mezzo Vol. #3 - 100 minutes - $29.98 - 02/08/2005Neon Genesis Evangelion: Platinum Edition Vol. #5...

Watch the Skies! And the Seas!
by Randall Larson (Thu 03-17-2005)

THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS One of the best science fiction scores of the 1950s comes to CD for believe it or not the very first time with FSM's premiere release of the full Dimitri Tiomkin score for 1951's THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD (Vol 8. No 1). Pr...

More GATCHAMAN Screenshots Online
by Jarrod Sarafin (Fri 08-08-2008)

Six days after releasing the first three conceptual backgrounds for the upcoming adaptation of Gatchaman (otherwise known as G-Force or Battle of the Planets), lead creator Felix Ip has released three more on his official blog. While no casting announceme...

Katsucon - Media Blasters Panel
by Chris Beveridge (Sun 02-20-2005)

...o by MiikeKekko Kamen Live ActionNightmare from KoreaThe Sisters a Thai film Other general information that I picked up in the panel is that Yaoi is a big seller for them and they are looking for more titles after Kizuna so the yaoi fangirls don\'t hav...


Katsucon - Media Blasters Panel
by Chris Beveridge (Sun 02-20-2005)

... by Miike Kekko Kamen Live Action Nightmare from Korea The Sisters a Thai film Other general information that I picked up in the panel is that Yaoi is a big seller for them and they are looking for more titles after Kizuna so the yaoi fangirls don\'t...

ADV Films Announces June 19th Releases (Wed 04-18-2007)

HOUSTON, April 16, 2007 "ADV Films, the number one producer-distributor of anime outside of Japan, is pleased to bring you the first volume of the futuristic sci-fi thriller 009-1 as well as the third volume of this year's premiere title, Le Chevalier D'...

FREQUENCY and THE BLOB
by John Thonen (Tue 10-31-2000)

Happy Halloween. If you haven’t been properly scared yet today, then just check out your credit card bill from buying or renting all the great movies I’ve covered this month. But don’t put that plastic away yet, even if the edges are starting to melt. ...

Imagi Unleashes New Teaser and Pics for GATCHAMAN
by Jarrod Sarafin (Mon 09-08-2008)

The first teaser clip has been launched online for the upcoming big screen adaptation of Gatchaman (aka Battle of the Planets or G-Force) courtesy of the Imagi official website. The studio has also unveiled some new photos, which you can see by clicking o...


Book Buzz: The Top Gift Book Picks for the Holidays!
by Tim Janson (Tue 11-18-2008)

  Welcome back to the Book Buzz after a two week hiatus for “re-tooling”. So what’s the deal? Well, there will be a few changes in the content of the column to hopefully make it more appealing to book fans. Rather th...

GATCHAMAN Concept Art Online
by Jarrod Sarafin (Sat 08-02-2008)

Very little information has come online these past few months for the upcoming adaptation of Gatchaman (otherwise known as G-Force or Battle of the Planets). Imagi and Warner Bros. have been keeping information close to their vests until now. Imagi's crea...

ADV Announces Acquisition of New Series 009-1 (Mon 01-08-2007)

"Neo Cold War Espionage With A Science-Fiction Twist." " Anime Insider HOUSTON, December 8, 2007 "ADV Films, the number one producer-distributor of anime outside of Japan, announced it has acquired exclusive home video and broadcast rights in North Ame...

ADV Films UK Talks Autumn and Winter Releases (Tue 09-12-2006)

LOAD UP SAMURAI GUN! TAKE A RIDE TO THE WILD, WILD EAST FROM 16th OCTOBER 2006 LONDON, UK, 12TH SEPTEMBER 2006 ADV Films, the leading producer-distributor of anime in the U.K., are proud to bring you on 16th October 2006 a new kind of justice: Samurai ...


There's a Pan-Dimension in My Ice Box, Part 1
by His Lordship Chaos (-)

...ense than Kekko Kamen's open thigh attack! I shielded my eyes, trying to stumble back. Yet the vacuum created by the icebox was too intense, and I found myself being pulled in. To my surprise and horror, I knew then that there was a pan-dimensional ga...

Astro Boy (1963) Ultra Box Set 2
by Mike Dungan (Tue 12-12-2006)

What They SayThe very first anime ever produced, Osamu Tezuka\'s original Astro Boy delighted children around the world with its touching stories and compelling characters. In the U.S., many will remember this popular children\'s series with its catchy th...

The Perils of Anime Crossovers
by His Lordship Chaos (-)

[We begin with a focus upon our ranter, a debonair Chaos with his hair slicked back, wearing a dignified bathrobe, and leisurely reclining in a highback chair.] His lordship Chaos: "...so like I was saying, I don't see what all the fuss is. These Mokona...

AnimeOnDVD Interviews Monica Rial
by Dani Moure (Sun 09-26-2004)

...g on? Oh, Kekko Kamen, we're finally going back and doing a dub for it. There's another big one, Wandaba Style. There's all kinds of stuff going on, we just did a load of auditions for like Princess Tutu, there's a whole bunch of things we're auditioni...


ADV Films UK Sets September Schedule (Wed 08-02-2006)

ANIME GOES TOP GUN IN AREA 88: TReACHERoUs Skies! KILL OR BE KILLED UNDER THE DESERT SUN FROM 18th SEPTEMBER 2006 LONDON, UK, 1st August 2006 ADV Films, the leading producer-distributor of anime in the U.K., is proud to release Area 88: Treacherous ...

Bandai to premier titles at Local Convention (Thu 01-09-2003)

BANDAI ENTERTAINMENT TO PREMIERE "ARGENTOSOMA" AND "KIKAIDER" AT THE LOS ANGELES COMIC BOOK AND SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTION Cypress, CA (January 9, 2003) - Bandai Entertainment announced the premiere of two new upcoming anime series, Argentosoma an...

New This Week (Sun 02-13-2005)

...bsp; Kekko Kamen (of 1) ADV Films 90 min. 29.98 02/15/2005   Legend of Crystania: The Chaos Ring Essential Anime Collection (of 1) ADV Films 135 min. 19.98 02/15/2005  &n...

NARNIA Composer Harry Gregson-Williams Honored at BMI Award Dinner for Outstanding Career Achievement
by RANDALL LARSON (Mon 05-22-2006)

BMI, the leading U.S. performing right organization, honored the composers and songwriters of the music from the past year's top-grossing films, top-rated prime-time network television series and highest-ranking cable network programs at its annual Film &...


X-MEN
by Steve Biodrowski (Thu 07-13-2000)

Well, for X-Men fans, the dream has finally come true: a multi-million dollar, star-studded movie version of their favorite comic book characters. I’ll leave it to those fans to debate whether this is a worthy adaptation of the source material. As for the...

FREQUENCY
by Steve Biodrowski (Thu 04-27-2000)

It’s commonplace for a film with higher aspirations to avoid genre labels—if, by higher aspirations,` we mean hoping to reach a wider audience than hardcore Trekkies by incorporating elements of romance, action-adventure, or drama. In such cases, the fami...

X-FILES Music: Composer Mark Snow
by Randall D. Larson (Sat 01-06-2001)

For the last eight years, THE X-FILES has been mesmerizing its television audiences with its mysterious entities, government conspiracies, alien abductions, malevolent mutants, and whimsical creatures, all wrapped up in a detective-show type format. Among...

Good Days for Movie Music Collectors
by Randall D. Larson (Sat 10-14-2000)

These are good days for soundtrack collectors. With most movie soundtracks available on CDs, and others often obtainable on composer-produced promotional recordings, and more and more movies being released on DVD with isolated scores, it’s becoming incre...


KISS OF THE DRAGON
by BRIAN THOMAS (Thu 01-24-2002)

It's unfair to call KISS OF THE DRAGON Jet Li's third American film. In LETHAL WEAPON 4, he was little more than a Special Guest Villain. ROMEO MUST DIE threw him into a hip-hop urban gangster drama with Shakespearean pretensions. KISS, though distributed...

Scharf Remembered, METROPOLIS Restored, and New Scores Abound
by Randall D. Larson (Thu 03-13-2003)

IN memoriamWalter Scharf, who composed, arranged or conducted the music for about 250 movies and television programs, including episodes of MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE and THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E, died Monday, February 24, 2003, at his home in Brentwood, Californi...

William Ross: Crafting the Music for Harry Potter
by Ford A. Thaxton and Randall D. Larson (Thu 11-28-2002)

The magical, adventurous world of Harry Potter was well defined by composer John Williams in HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE. With his characteristic flair for melody, effervescent action scoring, and musical depictions of fantasy and suspense, John...

Soylent Green is Musicians!
by Randall D. Larson (Thu 06-19-2003)

This Week's RecommendationSThis week, FSM releases two of the '70s strangest science fiction scores on CD for the first time. Pairing Fred Myrow's tuneful music for SOYLENT GREEN ("Soylent Green is People!") with Jerry Fielding's atonal ambience of DEMON ...


THE FINAL COUNTDOWN Arrives on CD
by Randall D. Larson (Wed 05-08-2002)

This Week’s RecommendationSOK – I’ll admit a prejudice: John Scott’s majestic and heroic score for THE FINAL COUNTDOWN was an instant favorite when the film first appeared in 1980. A thrilling and compelling story about a modern-day nuclear aircraft carri...

Newman Finds NEMO, Shearmur Scores ENGLISH, and Get Ready for the Big Green Dude
by Randall D. Larson (Thu 05-29-2003)

This Week's RecommendationSOn July 15th, [IMG3R]Decca will release the soundtrack to the James Bond spoof, JOHNNY ENGLISH, with music by Edward Shearmur (CHARLIES ANGELS, REIGN OF FIRE). The film stars Roan Atkinson (everyone's favorite BEAN), John Malkov...

X-MEN on Compact Disc
by Randall D. Larson (Sat 07-08-2000)

Michael Kamen’s orchestral score for X-MEN is a pulsating exercise for orchestra and synthesizer, as much a mutation of the acoustic and the electronic as the super-powered humanistic anomalies that are the film’s heroes. Lacking a strong, recurrent theme...

Coming Soon: Musical REVOLUTIONS
by Randall D. Larson (Thu 10-09-2003)

SOUNDTRACK & FILM MUSIC NEWSThe Maverick Records soundtrack to THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS will be released on November 4, 2003, one day before the movie opens, and will have over an hour of music on it, including the song "In My Head" by Pale 3, which pla...


Hasselhoff, Russo Cast in KNIGHT RIDER
by Jarrod Sarafin, News Editor (Tue 11-20-2007)

David Hasselhoff is in negotiations to star in the upcoming two hour movie/backdoor pilot of KNIGHT RIDER, reports the Hollywood Reporter. The lead character for this new concept will be Mike Tracer (Justin Bruening), the son of Michael Knight (Hasse...

X-MEN 2 Clarifications
by Frank Kurtz (Fri 10-26-2001)

Producer Lauren Shuler Donner and composer Michael Kamen have been taking about the coming X-MEN 2.While talking to IGN Filmforce, Shuler Donner confirmed recent word on the film's production scheduled start date saying that X-MEN 2 "will film in the late...

Finally, Chan and Li Set To Team On Film
by Frank Kurtz (Thu 07-19-2001)

Word has it that the long rumored, and often denied, on screen teaming of Jackie Chan and Jet Li has finally taken the first crucial step. According to Variety columnist Michael Fleming, Revolution Studios has made a deal with the two stars to team in a f...

A New Take on GALACTICA
by Randall D. Larson (Thu 03-18-2004)

THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONSStu Phillips' bombastic, rousing music to Glen A. Larson's (no relation) original 1978 TV series BATTLESTAR GALACTICA was one of the best things about that derivative space opera, a fully realized, authoritative, and wonderfully...


Lone Wolf and CD
by Randall D. Larson (Thu 04-15-2004)

THIS WEEK’S RECOMMENDATIONSOriginal music from the legendary 1970's Japanese Samurai films series, LONE WOLF AND CUB (a.k.a. THE BABY CART SERIES) is now available from LaLaLand Records. I had the extreme pleasure to write the notes for this significant s...

Diamond Comics December Previews (Wed 11-17-2004)

...P: $29.98 KEKKO KAMEN SRP: $29.98 KOI KAZE VOL 1 SRP: $29.98 KOI KAZE VOL 1 W/ ARTBOX SRP: $39.98 MARIN A GO GO SRP: $29.95 LEGEND OF CRYSTANIA CHAOS RING VOL 2 ESSENTIAL ANIME SRP: $19.98 MEGAMAN NT WARRIOR VOL 4 DOWNLOAD SRP: $24.98 MEZZO VOL 3 ...

Shinesman
by Chris Beveridge (Tue 10-31-2000)

What They SayHiroya Matsumoto, hoping to become a great employee as his late father, has just been hired at Raito, a top trading company. Little does he know that he’s been recruited for a very mysterious department within the company: Special Duty ...

ADV Films Announces May 22 and May 29 Releases (Wed 03-28-2007)

HOUSTON, March 27, 2007 "ADV Films, the number one producer-distributor of anime outside of Japan, is pleased announce the release dates of three titles! The Gilgamesh Complete Collection will be available on May 22. The Misaki Chronicles Complete Coll...


'X-Men' Composer Dies (Wed 11-19-2003)

Grammy-winning composer Michael Kamen has died of a suspected heart attack at his home in London. Kamen, 55, was best known for his movie soundtracks as well as his work with bands such as Aerosmith and Pink Floyd. The CD cover of his 'X-Men' movie sound...

27th Annual Annie Awards
by Frank Garcia (Thu 11-11-1999)

Warner Brothers` THE IRON GIANT won during the 27th Annual Annie Awards ceremonies held at the Alex Theater in Glendale, California. In a ceremony on Saturday, November 7, 1999, this animated feature won nine awards including the coveted Outstanding Achie...

Swing with the Supeheros!
by Rob M. Worley (Sat 02-07-2004)

Do you dig those superhero scores by Danny Elfman, Michael Kamen and Graeme Revell. What about the cool song scores to movies like 'Daredevil' and 'Blade II'. Then tune your internet radio to SuperheroRadio.com...

Sailor Moon S TV Vol. #3
by Chris Beveridge (Tue 06-12-2001)

What They SaySailor Moon and her friends continue to depend upon the help of Sailor Neptune and Sailor Uranus in their battles with the mysterious Eugeal of the Witches 5 over the heart crystals. But even as Sailor Moon and her friends try to protect th...


TRANSPORTER 3 A Go For Lionsgate
by Jarrod Sarafin (Tue 06-03-2008)

Lionsgate has sent out a press release indicating their intent to distribute the next installment of the Transporter franchise with Jason Statham set to reprise his character. See below.Lionsgate announced today that it has acquired U.S. and Canadian dist...

Fight Club
by Randall D. Larson (Thu 05-26-2005)

THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS Despite being a huge fan and collector of Asian action films for many years, I was totally unprepared for the zany incredulosity that is KUNG FU HUSTLE. An absolutely mind-boggling mix of action and comedy, kung-fu and wire-fu ...

Basic Harry
by Randall D. Larson (Thu 05-13-2004)

THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATION Jerry Goldsmith's sultry and sexy score for Paul Verhoeven's provocative thriller, BASIC INSTINCT, has been given a new lease on life through the new release on Belgium's Prometheus label (XPCD 154), which expands the earli...

AMAZING STORIES classic 1980s TV anthology scores come to CD from Intrada
by Randall Larson (Mon 05-15-2006)

In 1985, Steven Spielberg launched an ambitious anthology series called AMAZING STORIES. Spread out over two seasons were good-natured, colorful tales of the fantastic. Stories about a cartoon wheel on a world war II plane, a phantom train, a ghoulish sch...


Horrors & Hauntings
by Randall D. Larson (Thu 05-25-2006)

THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATION  A new soundtrack record label named Nicabella had made its debut with John Frizzell's excellent score for STAY ALIVE, William Brent Ball's eerie thriller about a group of teens who stumble upon a new video game called Sta...

Best Soundtrax of 06: Part 2 – Restorations & Compilations
by Randall Larson (Thu 01-18-2007)

LAST YEAR’S BIG RECOMMENDATIONS   As with previous years, I have separated my assessment of the year’s best soundtrack releases into new scores (soundtrack CDs of scores for films released in 2006) and newly-released archival re...

X-Men
by Randall D. Larson (Thu 06-08-2006)

THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONJohn Powell (THE BOURNE IDENTITY, ICE AGE 2: THE MELTDOWN, SHREK) has composed a magnificent, melodic, and powerfully reverent score for X-MEN: THE LAST STAND, released last week by Varese Sarabande Records. The music has plenty ...

Post-Christmas Book-Buying Tips
by Denise Dumars (Thu 01-11-2001)

Well, it`s after Xmas; no one has any cash, except for two quarters and a coupon for a fifty-cent double cappuccino at Borders. So whaddya do, besides see if your local library has been able to afford to buy any new fiction in, like, the last decade?You c...