Author Archives: Jeff Kuykendall

Double Feature: Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985)/Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI (1986)

Only a year after the “final” installment in the Jason Voorhees saga, Paramount unleashed Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985) – because there were bills to pay. The studio made a two-picture deal with director Danny Steinmann (Savage Streets), … Continue reading

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10 Rillington Place (1971)

What a fascinating career director Richard Fleischer had. From the nail-biting noir The Narrow Margin (1952) to such varied projects as The Vikings (1958), Doctor Doolittle (1967), Soylent Green (1973), Mandingo (1975), and even Conan the Destroyer (1984), the director was a … Continue reading

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Things to Come (1936)

By the 1930’s, H.G. Wells had become one of the most prominent political and sociological thinkers and futurists of his time, writing volume after volume speculating on where mankind was headed and where it ought to go, with technology and … Continue reading

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