Monthly Archives: June 2012

Yellow Submarine (1968)

Posted on June 18, 2012 at 6:00 am by Jeff Kuykendall

Now we can look back and see that Yellow Submarine (1968) is as much an iconic work of 1960’s pop art as Andy Warhol’s soup cans. (Not that it can be so easily categorized; not that there’s been anything else … Continue reading →

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Caged Heat (1974)

Posted on June 15, 2012 at 6:00 am by Jeff Kuykendall

Never forget that acclaimed director Jonathan Demme’s debut was a women-in-prison film from 1974 with gratuitous nudity, bloody mayhem, and a gonzo style which indicates to the viewer that all the trashiness just might have quotation marks around it. Which … Continue reading →

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Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)

Posted on June 13, 2012 at 6:00 am by Jeff Kuykendall

The third installment of the now-unstoppable Planet of the Apes franchise was something of a miracle baby, and it benefited from the unusual birth. When last we left the saga, in Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970), Charlton Heston’s … Continue reading →

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