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

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”