Future World is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. Pure bad. Like, wow.
Monthly Archives: July 2021
Basic, Elemental Sleaze: The Humpback Classic I, THE JURY.
By James Kenney. July, 2021. I’m normally not so much of a vulgarian outside of my predilection for Eurohorror, but I appreciate an occasional opportunity to be one, and Richard T. Heffron’s 1982 Mickey Spillane adaptation I, The Jury, written by the legendary Larry Cohen, is quite an opportunity. This is not a film withContinue reading “Basic, Elemental Sleaze: The Humpback Classic I, THE JURY.”
Friendship, The Perfect Blendship: Peter Bogdanovich’s Remarkable, Eccentric Masterpiece AT LONG LAST LOVE
Peter Bogdanovich and Cole Porter’s AT LONG LAST LOVE is the best musical of the last 50 years and is, in fact, a masterpiece
Slyly Funny, Cool and Lofty: Kate Winslet IS the Dressmaker
Kate Winslet stars in a dark revenge comedy, a rather overlooked minor modern classic.
In Praise of Bolder Women: Laura Dern in Joyce Chopra’s SMOOTH TALK
Or, how to really screw up adapting a classic Joyce Carol Oates short story and yet almost pull it off, because, you know, Laura Dern
IN PRAISE OF BOLDER WOMEN: Raquel Welch in 1972’s HANNIE CAULDER
By James Kenney “Win or Lose, You Lose, Hannie Caulder.” –Thomas Luther Price, Bounty Hunter Hannie Caulder is two-thirds of an excellent Western, a humpback with spurs. Burt Kennedy’s film, about a woman setting out for vengeance against the three outlaws who murdered her husband and raped her, brings the best out of 60’s andContinue reading “IN PRAISE OF BOLDER WOMEN: Raquel Welch in 1972’s HANNIE CAULDER”
It Gives You the Feels: Olivia Rodrigo’s SOUR
Michelle Kenney, age 14, goes in-depth on Olivia Rodrigo’s debut album SOUR.
Tremble...Sigh...Wonder... 