Monthly Archives: August 2011

On the Comet (1970)

Posted on August 31, 2011 at 5:00 am by Jeff Kuykendall

Karel Zeman (1910-1989) was a Czechoslovakian animator and filmmaker whose shorts and feature length films are like multi-media playgrounds in which actors move amongst baroque painted backdrops, interact with stop-motion animated creatures matted against deliberately flat, Victorian-style paintings and cut-outs, … Continue reading →

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Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969)

Posted on August 30, 2011 at 5:00 am by Jeff Kuykendall

Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide gives Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969) two-and-a-half stars and a fragment of a sentence. Until the Warner Archives recently released the film on DVD, I had hardly heard of it before; but upon learning … Continue reading →

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Double Feature: Enter the Dragon (1973)/Challenge of the Tiger (1980)

Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:50 am by Jeff Kuykendall

Is there anything which says “the 70’s” more succinctly than kung fu? Yes, there was the David Carradine series (1972-75); there were also comic books, like Marvel’s Master of Kung Fu (introduced in 1973); Peter Cushing pursued Dracula into Hong … Continue reading →

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